User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/Reachmen/Forsworn - freedom fighters or terrorists?/@comment-2040576-20121218171131/@comment-5790858-20121222032542

Well they Reachmen have just as much claim to the land as the Nords, and it's wrong that they're forced to live as second class citizens for the most part. The problem is that the Forsworn try using terrorism to try to take the land, rather than being civil and trying take the land through politics. The Reachmen and the Stormcloaks have a very similar situation, they both believe they are entitled to rule their respective land without having a larger authority ruling over them, but the difference is that Stormcloaks are trying to "re-claim" their land through gaining respect and trying to reason with the Jarls, whereas the Forsworn choose to murder and harrass people to take the land by fear.

Personally, I think that the Reachmen and Nords have just as much a right to live and rule over the Reach, but the Forsworn make all Reachmen look bad, and when it comes down to it the Forsworn created their own problem. They could have continued living in peace and eventually regained control through political manuevering, but they ruined that for themselves.