."The Life of Brian" is reckoned to be one of the best black comedies ever made, and the scene that forms the basis of this page, where the revolutionaries of the People"s Front of Judea discuss "What have the Romans ever done for us?", is a classic of sharp satire.The point of the satire is to question the standard critique of colonialism (or imperialism, in the case of the Romans, I suppose) as simply a Bad Thing -...