User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-7953253-20130505074859/@comment-6573099-20130505155055

lets look at an excerpt from one Jarl Ulfrics actions during the Markarth incident shall we?

-Ulfric is contacted by Jarl Igmund

-goes to Markarth to rid the city of reachmen in exchange for the ability of talos worship in the area.

-upon arriving, Jarl Ulfric escalates the conflict by killing any and all reachmen in the area, along with anyone who did not fight with the stormcloaks (rumored to have included women, children "old enough to swing a sword", elderly, merchants, farmers) according to the bear of markarth (keep in mind this account is imperial in origin, so maybe biased) but many other accounts stand, many surviving accounts claim that many good men and women were needlessly killed

as another question, how does any of this explain why the stormcloaks are "right"? if it is correct to kill for an independant province, if it is correct to transgress the rules of the greybeards and use the thu'um improperly, if your current rule is subject to bigotry and racism, than how in your cause right?