Guy Fawkes

The classic poem...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Click here for the second verse

This song comes to mind. "My will be a dead man" by Project86. I don't know about the video, but I like the song. It's good easy listening for November the 5th.

Did you know? Some key people in Parliament knew about the gunpowder plot from early on in the piece. One of the schemers was actually a rat, employed by parliament to feed in information and updates on the plot. This was just what the Protestant Parliament wanted, a chance to foil a plot by Roman Catholics to kill the King and all the MPs in Parliament. It was essentially a complex and well thought out publicity stunt. When the people of England heard that the Roman Catholics were trying to blow up Parliament, they would be unhappy - and all power to the current Government!

Parliament buildings: still standing

If by some bizarre chance Guy Fawkes and the crew had been successful in blowing up Parliament, they would have also succeeding in bringing total havoc and disorder to the whole country of England. The right of the common man to read and write could well have been again removed, and the hierarchical Roman Catholic reinstated as the oppressive regime that it had been prior to the Reformation.

Don't even get me started on Nanny State only allowing the sale of fireworks between the 2nd and the 5th of November. It's quite simple, just chuck the irresponsible and immature losers in prison. Don't restrict the freedom of everyone just so that you manage to stop the few who ruin it for the rest of us.