Today we celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, the commemoration of the British conspirator who in 1605 hatched a scheme to ignite 36 barrels of gunpowder and demolish the Houses of Parliament
I just hope that most of the celebration is because Fawkes was stopped and not successful. He was really just a wannabe mass-murdering radical Catholic terrorist, and the society he wanted would have made Cromwell's Puritan republic look like a place of enlightenment and liberty in comparison.
Read up on Catholic Spain and France during the worst excesses and atrocities of the Inquisition and you'll have a good idea of what Fawkes wanted for Britain. Alan Moore's "V" is like a modern conspiracy theory in the way it lionizes Fawkes because it turned real history upside down the same way revisionists do.
I used to love it as a kid. The Newfies still burn shit for this one. Great time was had by all!
The Newfies still burn shit for this one.
So do the Ottawans.
Read up on Catholic Spain and France during the worst excesses and atrocities of the Inquisition and you'll have a good idea of what Fawkes wanted for Britain. Alan Moore's "V" is like a modern conspiracy theory in the way it lionizes Fawkes because it turned real history upside down the same way revisionists do.