The Gunpowder Plot: Treason & Torture

Telling the Jesuits of his plan to blow up the House of Lords doesn't exactly get Catesby the support he predicted. Guy Fawkes is continually tortured until he reveals his true identity.

Watch more of The Gunpowder Plot from BBC Worldwide here:
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[SweDanaLovesNaruto]

Happy November the 5th 2010 :)

[MaxDaMafia]

5th November 2010

i remember Like if you do too

[0masakra0]

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

Long live Guy Fawkes and the true British monarchy!

[ThePalfree]

guy fawkes is my hero--forever 5th november

[likitty20]

Remember remember the fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason why gunpowder, treason

Should ever be forgot...

[falstoffe]

@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.

[falstoffe]

@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]

@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.

[falstoffe]

@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. 

[posthumanfetus]

So why is this celebrated?

[infidel1978]

@rycka1983 He's not

[LordGeorgeRodney]

Anything to celebrate an anti Catholic day