User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-80.216.216.3-20130511124143

Infact now that I think about it, the Empire wrongfully branding Ulfric a criminal and or a traitor for killing Torygg counts as cultural persecution.

Duels are a part of Nord life and culture, and there are no laws in Skyrim against them.

Obviously I realise that the Empire couldn't accept the result of the duel since it would have cost them Skyrim, doesn't make it any less cultural persecution.

Then again, the Empire did let Hammerfell go...

Eagerly even.

So they really shouldn't have had a problem with Skyrim becoming independent.