Context: in 1296, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán—also known as Guzmán el Bueno (the Good)—was a Castilian nobleman who defended the Spanish town of Tarifa against an army of Moors. Guzmán’s son was a hostage of the Moors, and they threatened to cut his throat if Guzmán didn’t yield the town. According to legend, Guzmán the Good threw down his knife for the besiegers to use on his son. After the siege was broken, Guzmán was rewarded by the Crown of Castile, and there’s a statue of him in Tarifa.
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Bastardi! You think you can threaten me? I’ll give you NOTHING! You want my children? Take them! I have the instrument to make more!
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Context: in 1296, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán—also known as Guzmán el Bueno (the Good)—was a Castilian nobleman who defended the Spanish town of Tarifa against an army of Moors. Guzmán’s son was a hostage of the Moors, and they threatened to cut his throat if Guzmán didn’t yield the town. According to legend, Guzmán the Good threw down his knife for the besiegers to use on his son. After the siege was broken, Guzmán was rewarded by the Crown of Castile, and there’s a statue of him in Tarifa.
Bastardi! You think you can threaten me? I’ll give you NOTHING! You want my children? Take them! I have the instrument to make more!
The original “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.”