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  • Treason? The only reason is that on the British Throne are usurpers since 400 years.

    Long live Guy Fawkes and the true British monarchy!

  • guy fawkes is my hero--forever 5th november

  • Remember remember the fifth of November

    Gunpowder, treason and plot.

    I see no reason why gunpowder, treason

    Should ever be forgot...

  • So why is this celebrated?

  • @posthumanfetus It's basically Celebrated because it was stopped in time. Fawkes was originally thought of as an American Benedict Arnold or a Russian Rasputin. He was remembered as a villain, and a failed villain at that: a turn coat, a little crazy, and a failure at being both.

    Kids would make scarecrows or life sized dolls to burn, and draw his face on a mask to put on the scare crow. (Guy Fawkes mask).

    From there, a comic book character that deliberately used it as an irony was born.

  • @falstoffe I can see that. Honestly, if the plan actually did go through, it would have probably turned England into an anarchist country that would have just split up into a bunch of city states, all governed by fighting warlords like feudal Japan. So really it's good that they caught him.

    The weird thing is that lately he's been seen as less of a terrorist and more like some kind of martyr, probably because of the comic book and movie.

  • @posthumanfetus There plan was not anarchy but absolutism. That's the biggest irony of it all. Kill the king, all his descendants, and all potential successors at once, and then the catholics rise up simultaneously and install a catholic king backed by Rome. That was the Catesby vision. The realisty: If the gunpowder went off, what realistically would've happened was full scale slaughter of all catholics, all bets off. They were outnumbered 20 to one.

  • @posthumanfetus Google the "Marian Persecutitions" if you are interested in the Backstory. It's interesting to see how cruel & unusual, innocent until guilty, religious tolerance, separated powers, "you're king because we allow you to be" evolved from all of this. Mary I tried to return England to Rome. Elizabeth I and James switched it back to "Parliament has power." There was a rematch in 1649, and another rematch in 1688, which Northern Ireland is only JUST NOW starting to get over.

  • Anything to celebrate an anti Catholic day

  • The Gunpowder Plot has been described as the 9/11 of its day.

    Staged by the government to discredit an entire religion.

  • Why he is hero?

  • @rycka1983 He's not

  • i was born on the 5th of nov,

  • HAPPY NOVEMBER THE 5TH 2011!!!!!!!

  • @nastenkakoza1 It's August the 15th 2011. 

  • @OttarErOsom >:s FUCK!

  • Come back Guy, all is forgiven!!!! Perhaps you can get rid of this lot of twats instead!!

  • brennan heart :)

  • 5th november should be remembered for what it was . they got what was coming to them . simple .

  • Torture is far worse a crime than either treason or murder. It is the most despicable thing you can do to another human being and people who do it deserve to die.

  • @WonderWoman200290 what the fuck? torture should be allowed to be performed on criminals, if we had tougher punishments like that id bet my life crime would go down in the UK because people would be scared to commit crimes, the way it needs to be. At the moment people commit crimes because they simply dont care, if they go to prison so what? They have no bills, free food, free accomodation, relax all day, no work. This is exactly what these thugs want!

  • @KingKonk95 So you want us all to live in fear, to refrain from wrong doing simply because we are afraid of violent retribution? How far should it go? Should people be tortured for littering, graffiti or speeding offences? Could - God forbid - a law abiding citizen such as yourself fall foul of authority and find yourself on the rack because someone in power takes a dislike to you?

  • 1:26-1:32 she stands there like john wayne lol like she's been on a horse for a week!!

  • Thank fawkes for fireworks!

  • @xSilentPsychox Same! 8D LOL XD

  • Shame he didnt succeed, i dont think anyone would miss those corrupt and useless people we call the government, who use our money to buy themselves cars and holidays, the uk needs to have a revolution and get rid of these tossers.

  • @xSilentPsychox OMG ME TO! for u was it satoko, nail-ripping, or keiichi's?

  • The rest of the ryme goes... Guy Fawkes was his name and, t'was his intent To blow up king and parliament. Three score barrels were laid below To speed old England's overthrow. By God's mercy he was catch'd With a darkened lantern and burning match. So, holler boys, And let the bells ring. Holler boys, holler boys, God save the king. And what shall be done with him? Burn him! Burn him! Burn him!
  • Remember, Remember

    The Fifth of November

    The Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

    I know of no reason

    Why the Gunpowder Treason

    Should ever be forgot.

  • Remember, Remember the fifth of November

  • V continued the plot and very successful...☺

  • Brilliant good bit of torture, should do it these days also. First Let a muderer confess and then torture them for the details. Let them live for about three weeks in pain and then shout the Bastard !

  • @jerry303

    nooooo....

    God would take care of him in his own ways.

  • @jerry303 do your wishes include those wrongly convicted !? Jerry your in a deep deep coma, hope you wake before they start carting off members of your own family ! Your physical and material have been merged and both are owned by the corporate state .....now back to sleep jerry. peace to Guido Fawkes and to your sleepy head.

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  • Remember, Remember

    The fifth of November

    Gunpowder Treason and Plot

    I see no reason

    Why Gunpowder Treason

    Should ever be Forgot

  • Guy fawkes was a hero who tried to save england from the hands of those control it as masters today...wake up people..

  • @iprotectheinnocent fuck off he was a Catholic terrorist. What's that got to do with modern day Britain anyway?

  • @pulsengine first of all learn how to talk with respect you stupid animal..second..he was not a terrorist..he was someone who saw that there was evil breeding in power in england and stood up to do something about it...wake up you prat..britan today still has that evil in place..get an education...

  • @iprotectheinnocent He was a filthy Catholic, trying to depose a Protestant King. A Catholic Britain, I have no doubt, would just be made worse by the Pope and his corrupting influence. Talk with respect? Who the fuck are you?

  • @pulsengine ? talk with respect? what you have to be someone flippen start to get respect? you stupid ignorant fool..fawkes died trying to save your pathetic future you muppet! to stop you becoming the moron you have become! people like you dont have basic morals nor basic respect..you deserve all you shall get when the time comes..what a bloody joke..im ashamed to see humans like you walking this earth...your a damn joke you plonker! get an education for god sake!

  • @iprotectheinnocent You think I am uneducated? LOL And what is 'trying to save my pathetic future' and 'when the time comes'- are you some sort of future teller? Seriously mate, get a life.....

  • @pulsengine future teller? are you thick? death you muppet it comes to all of us...you dont need to be a fortune teller to tell someone that..for godsake will you get with the program..!? seriously get an education...and next time dont talk about things you dont know squatr about your wasting valubale time talking rubbish..

  • @iprotectheinnocent I am a Christian, be you protestant, Catholic, Calvenist, Quaker or Seventh Day Adventist we're all under Christianity so who does that mean I'd 'get what's coming?' No I am not thick and for some odd reason you keep repeating for me to get an education which is a rather redundant argument. You made a pathetic generalisation about England which was not appreciated and suddenly you're an educated, morally true, intelligent Canadian. Jog on son, jog on.....

  • @pulsengine The reason i state you should get an education is quite clear in yoru comments..for example when have i made a generalisation about england? you havent got a clue mate thats why im telling you to get an education..as i said simple statment "guy fawkes was a hero trying to free england" thats my opinion..your choice hwat you beleive..jog on!? seriously your just wasting time now? you seem to lack knowledge on the subject and logic to continue ..indeed do jog on at your leisure..

  • @iprotectheinnocent guy fawkes was no hero. 

  • Imagine how bad-ass Guy would of looked with his shades on riding away on a motorbike as he smokes a cigar ,that light the gunpowder, right as the house of parliament blew up behind him. EPIC!

  • i tried to blow up the house of lords, but got out of breath lololol

  • @religonisalie wtf?

  • There's a lot wrong with the Church and Luther was right to stand up to the corruption and take new beginnings, but most of them turned away from Rome for way different reasons and they are just a bunch of cunts, who are going to hell. They're the babylon usa whore - which managed also to kill any semblance of an american dream by replacing it with that Military Industrial complex.

    All that plundered gold and silver from the 'americas' is the basis of the fake ecomomy ever since.

  • Well Britian is a total state, as in a complete mess, who knows what things would have been like if he'd succeeded. A lot of the Big Lie starts right with King James reigns time - kidding on the New World was newly discovered then, changing the Bible itself so that loads of books were omitted from it - and to this day that's the Bible version used by all, all the offshoot Bibles are alterations to that version.

  • Remember the 5th November... Why this day should be forgot?

    Every rotting government shall fall! Every people who want to steal our rights shall burn!

    Fight for enlightned laws, for the higher justice!

    The world needs someone who's ready to fight for a greater good!

  • @S4NDY19 You don't get it at all, do you...

  • Yes, I am and have argued in favour of Monarchy and the reasons are all laid out in my opinions on this page. I see from your response that your charisma bi-pass operation was a great success.

  • @ingerlander I'm with you - a Westminster system with checks and balances, embodied by the Monarch and the sober second thought of an upper chamber (Senate or House of Lords) is far better than a republican dictatorship of the politicians.

  • isthis letter (where james allows torture) still conserverd?

  • Fuck You SweDanaLoveNaruto Fawkes was a man with honor fuck King James.

  • @StopFear you have no idea what he was fighting against id recomend watching v for vendetta

  • i recomend both to read a book rather watching a movie. He was fighting for equal rights to Catholic Brits mainly.

  • @dimalex8 i dont know the full story i was just saying that stopfear had no idea what he was fighting for/against and i knew that v for vendetta metiond him and that it was an amazing movie :P

  • Glad that terrorist was caught and his plot foiled. Celebrate!

  • 5th November 2010

    i remember Like if you do too

  • What is there an advert attached to the front of a BBC clip for?????

  • I REMEMBER

  • Happy November the 5th 2010 :)

  • 1:16 wear trench cot, hands in pockets, you're either

    1. A flasher

    2. Pretending to be smart. Instant Success.

  • Because of the ugliness of this backward era, and it's brutality, it's what drew me to history in the first place.

  • @bobbygray100 and the founding fathers were terrorists. It has a proper place in specific instances.

  • :-D

  • Remember Remember the 5th of November

  • @colezweber

    the gunpowder treason and plot

    I can't find no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot

  • brutti skifosi ma non vi vergognate a mettere la pubblicita italiana su un video straniero siete solo degli skifosi

  • Guy Fawkes has got some balls!!!!

  • Remember, remember, the fifth of November.

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  • @VendPrekmurec ...WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE REMOVE A COMMENT OF ANY KIND....."FREE SPEACH!!"

  • Good. The Catholics deserved it.

  • guy fawkes,  the only guy that entered parliament with good intentions

  • Europe was ruled by a master ... wich is communism so your wrong EdibleMealman

  • Shit, why is people so ignorant?! Who the fucking cares where this happened? U should know that it has happened, is happening everywhere, so stop fucking thinking ur country is the bes.t Because its not. Its ruled by humans, and we humans are this fucked up.

  • @palatena I care about history. I know what has happened. Your argument is irrelevant wtf are you even talking about?

  • fuck communism!!!fascism ftw

  • britan is a little island full of old people who think that they are beter than every one els even if they don't admit it i mean basicly any country that wanted to could take over the whole isl if they went 100% full power aginst the british people and of corse AMERICA WOULD HAVE TO SAVE THEM LIKE WE DID IN WWI AND WW2 becuse britan os just a snobby little country who thinks that they are all that calling americans stupid  well WHO GAVE YOU THE MONEY TO EVEN REBUILD BRITAN AFTER WW2 HUH F U UK

  • @hellzshotgun what is the difference between your country and england.

    and don't say "I R 'MERICAN HURR HURR" because that would make you ignorant

  • @hellzshotgun Lol, what an ignorant fucker. Who gave you the people, the money and the blood to be who you are now? Americans need some lessons in humillity...

  • @palatena hey ass hole i know that this is like 1 week after you reply but even if england didnt start America then france would have so dont be taking credit for somthing that you tryd to have an allmost communist control over it when if someone els did it there wouldent have been a revilution and that just proves that you are the ignorant fucker and what do you mean we need a leson in humility just geting your ass kicked in both world wars is funny to enough dont you think?

  • @hellzshotgun Dude, Im from Argentina. We didntt fought in those retard wars. I dont know what the heck ur talking about.

  • @palatena But we did defeat you in the falkland islands, pml and for what the welsh? Bunch of useless pointless farmers lol.

  • @andrew8833 This isnt a game, man. You defeating us only means you had a better army (and allies) And I refuse to be a part of the "you" when refering to that war. The people from Argentina never wanted that war. It was the delirious attempt of a militar usurper to legitimate his state of terrorism.

  • @andrew8833 And I didnt understand the last part....whats pml? Are u calling us useless pointless farmers? I call u ilegal usurpers.

  • We could do with a Fuy Fawkes today. It is Parliament and MP's who are traitors, liars, thieves, country wreckers and they are destroying our national identity by ethnic and racial dilution in the most calculating manner.

    To all those who disagree, you will find out the hard way, no matter who you are. It means the enslavement of all.

  • also they cut their penis

  • Adobe flash player has crashed. Sad face. :(

  • james handwriting was...ugh...bad

  • @dubbigot WOW blows Arabs you say, clearly you have researched this subject much more than I and your eloquence has won me over. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC. And now I have to move on to other horizons and you can point your frothing mouth to other subjects. I gave it some thought as to why you were in this site in the first place and then it dawned on me, you typed in "torture" didn't you. May I suggest that the next word you type in is "therapy". Good riddance.

  • @ingerlander , so you finally gave up trying to convince me of the wonders of monarchs , must have been my reminder of how filthy these people are , a pox on you and your sad devotion to a rotten crown

  • @ingerlander You should be a Bard. You have a sharp turn of a phrase.

  • @ingerlander Is there really some backwards jackass argueing in favor of monarchy? Surely you must of been joking. The only good Monarchy ever did was make people restless enough to actually stand up to your tyrannical inbred idols that you seem to worship so that the human race could advance beyond the cave man born ideal of royalty. if anyone needs therapy its you buddy.

  • it would be safer to ride in the convoy

  • dubbigot

    Your answer is drivel and smacks of socialist claptrap.

  • dubbigot

    You are Irish and you hate the Queen but that is a given. What I would like to know from you is just why it is that you hate her personally. If you reply I will, in return , answer your question and gladly, although I do not see the point as your prejudice was fed to you via your mothers milk.

  • @ingerlander , i despise anyone who lives off the backs of others , her family haven't done a days work ever and live the high life , dont class fundraising as a job , its a hobby used to make a rich person feel better about themselves , the palace is the worlds biggest and most lavish council house , paid for by workers and lived in by non workers , make sure to click on the reply to the right , your last comment didnt come to my account , i just happened to check this page .

  • @dubbigot

    Constitutional Monarchy part 1.

    Power is a fleeting thing. One day you have the power of life and death over all your people and then next you are stood in front of a firing squad Ceausescu like and shot along side your wife who is thrown in for good measure. Stable and enduring democracies have a series of checks and balances that prevent any individual from seizing power and making a dictatorship. The powers of the state that dictator must control are:

  • @dubbigot

    Constitutional Monarchy part 2.

    The armed forces, the police and the judiciary. Why has this never happened in Britain and yet great states such as Germany, France and Italy have succumbed is because of our system of government.....Constitutional Monarchy.

    The Monarch is head of state but has no power to institute political measures. She is entirely none political, cannot vote and cannot issue a political statement unless sanctioned by her government. She is above politics.

  • @dubbigot

    Constitutional Monarchy part 3.

    The government in it's turn receives a mandate through the ballot box as the will of the people and it is therefore the people that are the source of power. The people consent to give to the Monarch the instruments of state power in trust. All the armed forces, police and judiciary pledge allegiance to the Monarch and NOT a politician. The circle is complete. To see the Monarch as a mere figure head and an excuse for pageantry is all too often

  • @dubbigot

    Constitutional Monarchy part 4.

    the only thing that anyone sees which suitably distracts from the power and authority she can command under extreme circumstances. Let us imagine that we have a Prime Minister that sees himself as the source of his own power and exceeds his constitutional boundaries. Troops are called out onto the streets, civil liberties curtailed, curfews imposed and the opposition arrested. What could we do. We would turn to the Monarch

  • @dubbigot

    Constitutional Monarchy part 5.

    who with the powers entrusted to her by the people would wield the power to dismiss his parliament and even order his arrest. Yes people, she can do that. Her role is less to exercise power than to keep power in it's proper proportion.

    dubbigot, I am glad you have made a new life in the U.S.A. a country perceived as young and yet, did you know that it's constitution is older than that of Germany, France and Italy combined.

  • @dubbigot

    Constitutional Monarchy part 6.

    It was born of British political heritage and English common law, nice place to start. dubbigot, had you not been accepted into the states and wanted to emigrate anyway, which countries would top your list. Let me guess, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. What is it that these first class democracies have in common.

  • @ingerlander , still dont understand why you want to bow to and financially support a greedy layabout with a family of scumbags and hypocrites , if your happy go ahead but its not for me , and shouldn't be for any part of Ireland , 32 soon .

  • @dubbigot When Harold Wilson became Prime Minister (the worst in British history) he arrived at Buckingham Palace for his first weekly meeting with the Queen thinking he was to have tea and discuss the weather. She grilled him about his polices and he, not being prepared, left with his tail between his legs. He said that he would never make the same mistake again. She is not a greedy layabout, she is an intrinsic part of a political system that works. Let's leave it at that. Best wishes.

  • @ingerlander , so she bullied wilson , great achievement indeed , thats like scaring frosty the snowman with a match

  • @dubbigot So you missed the point. Hardly surprising.

  • @ingerlander , didnt miss any point , the point is simple , i like republics and you like kissing ass to an out dated relic of the dark ages ,

  • @dubbigot Upwards of 300 million people live under this system and in some of the most desirable countries on earth. All have every human and legal right there is and all are free born. Millions line up at immigration offices dreaming of a spot in the "dark ages". Millions of people lucky enough to get to these "dark" spots , get, upon placing their foot on it's soil, rights they could only dream of and most are from your beloved republics. Try a week in Zimbabwe, I will pay for it.

  • @ingerlander , zimbabwe is not a democratic republic , but it is an example of plunder by your forefathers , another land destroyed by a foreign monarch , your ilk tried toconvince my people for 800 years about how great you are , not working still, so stop, republic forever , monarchy in hell begging forgivness that it doesn't deserve

  • @dubbigot 800 years to convince you how good we are. It must surely rank as the longest and most convincing P.R. campaign in human history. The proof is in the pudding, how many millions of Irish have settled in England and how many more are set to join them. There is barely a family in England that cannot brag an Irish descendant. My grandmother is Irish and her mother signed her birth certificate with a cross as she was an illiterate Irish peasant. I have a copy, quite touching.

  • @ingerlander , the worst ever , we still dont like monarchies , af course some went to england , they had to get work , the monarch's used ireland as a food source to feed the military on their voyage around the world to spread misery and plunder , you are obviously proud of these rampaging rapists , i wouldn't ,

  • @dubbigot Your answer is groundless. I have an Irish mate. We played rugby together for 15 years. We played, fought and boozed together as real mates. But every now and then after a few beers he would enter into this anti English rant as though he didn't know me. You see dubbigot, long before your brains mature or you can reason for yourself you are filled with anti English drivel. I always forgave him for I always saw him for what he was, merely his fathers ventriloquist dummy.

  • @ingerlander do you really image that it is cost effective to have the royal family as the intrinsic part of your political system?

  • @stardaddyo9 The cost you ask, well what price freedom. To quote Oscar Wilde "you think of the cost of everything and the value of nothing".

  • @ingerlander my friend if you believe that maintaining the royal family is a vital pre-condition to maintaining your personal freedom as an englishmen, you are far afield from the truth.

  • @stardaddyo9 And just what is the truth, explain yourself. I eagerly await your reply. Be it far from me to deny myself enlightenment.

  • @ingerlander if your govt. decided tomorrow to remove the royal family , your day-to-day life would be impacted not even slightly. your tax payers have pumped a very significant amount of britains wealth into maintaining the royal family over the past century. all you got for that was a great deal of pomp and circumstance. and of course , the occasional scandal.

  • @stardaddyo9 First of all, the government could not remove the monarch without a referendum and the British people are far more in the habit of removing their governments instead. If the British people were to enter into such a radical change in the way they are governed then a new constitution would need to written up with new checks and balances essential to keep politicians in their rightful place. For it is the monarchy that is there to see that that happens under conditions of power abuse.

  • ya as long as there christian jesus will save them

  • 1:26 reminds me about MM9 :P

  • ..bring her to me....

  • they should have made contact with the 'witchfinder general'

  • @ianupton He found the Belazzukitty,after all and Jeff the horse

  • 2:54... the difference in his signature from before and after is horrifying, how could they do such a thing to a man, even if it was treason?

  • "and so God speed your good work!"

    terrifying!

  • I wish Guy Fawkes would have been successful.. aww..

  • lmfao

  • I know, it's sad.

  • so you support terrorism?

  • @bulked: No..just feel bad for the guy... such an intricate plan gone awry..

  • Well, i dont care if it was intricate, it was cold blooded terrorism planned to wipe out hundreds of people, and plunge the country into chaos and Spanish occupation. Being hung drawn and quartered was too much for a terrorist like Fawkes

  • not terrorism. rebellion. ben franklin said there should be a rebellion in the U.S. every 20 years, though, i'm not sure where i heard that...

    but still, change for the better, not terrorism.

  • it wasnt rebellion-it was terrorism. He planned to kill hundreds-not all of whom were politicians or nobles. He then planned to use the event to incite a religiously based uprising, which would have resulted in a Spanish invasion, the implementation of a Spanish, and as a result of the current times, authoritarian government, and the implementation of the inquisition which would have killed thousands of non catholics.

    How is that different from current religious terrorism such as Al Quaeda

  • it would have saved thousands of people in Asia the "honour" of being under the bloody Kings dirty foot.

  • yes, thay got such a grim deal-look at India now, a rising superpower which still uses British style political institutions, still has an infrastructure provided by the British (the worlds biggest railway network?).

    Dont talk about things you dont understand

  • Your knowledge of true history is probably laughable. Take your own advice and don't talk about things you don't understand.

  • its Christian terrorism so its OK

  • @shehanagins I hope you're just being ironic.....

  • i am

  • change for the better?

    Implementation of a religious inquisition, a foreign imposed goverment and civil chaos.......change for the better?

  • I think we're long overdue for rebellion in this country (USA). at the first sign of it I will rise to the occasion!

  • Then I think you're a goddamn idiot who doesn't understand the freedoms we have here in this country compared to just about every other country in the world.

  • happy November the 5th.

  • It was the add that was on the video at the time.

  • Fuck the NFL!

  • yaaaaaaaawn

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  • ...Europe was not ruled by communism

  • @EdibleMealman oh really?

  • @EdibleMealman actually it was long ago.

  • @jjason55740 Moron

  • The You Tube links, that appear at the end of the video, are totally inappropriate.

  • remember remember the 5th of november. our time will come again.

  • All violence must be banished from our midst ...

    All intolerance and should be repudiated his guilty punished (for there is justice) to be put off others.

  • I lived in Warwickshire when young and seem to recall it was pronounced cofton court not co-ton court.

  • can i know what's that thing using for torture ( the one has string) tnx

  • The honesty & transparency of releasing the Torture Photos will help protect Americans and Troops. Only as long as justice is eagerly sought as well, & The War Criminals are Tried in view of the world community.

    Publicizing the photos WITHOUT seking justice, will NOT create %1. more grudges by the Victim Nations than already exists

    But publicizing the photos will create a %1000. increase in grudges by the AMERICAN PEOPLE who will be ASHAMED ASHAMED ASHAMED ASHAMED ASHAMED ASHAMED

    _____

  • While the publications are unpleasant, the story must be told. We can not remain silent about the abuses and atrocities committed by anyone. Can not and should not mute ...

    "What bothers me is not the cry of the poor, is the silence of the good." (Rev. Luther King Jr.)

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  • And you are an illiterate juvenile.

  • hawarirahal

    'Give me liberty or give me death'

    You must be American. Monarchists are for rats you say. The British system of government with it's constitutional monarchy has served both this world and those that adopted it, very well. It is a system that could not be invented but needed 1000 years to evolve. Your democracy, based on English common law as are many and should you wish to understand just how ingenious the British system is then I would be willing to explain it. Just let me know.