As I write this the sky is alive with fireworks, which is fine, except they’re making it difficult to hear the Eddie Izzard DVD I’m trying to watch. It’s funny though, that we celebrate what was basically an attempted act of terrorism, albeit 400 years ago. In case you don’t know, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were trying to blow up the then parliament in order to remove the protestant ruling class and stop the persecution of Catholics in England at the time. Unfortunately for them though somebody grassed them up, and the plan was thwarted at the 11th hour.
It seems strange, as after all, should somebody try to blow up parliament today they’d be locked up in an MI5 interrogation room for a few months before being sentenced to several hundred years of making sure they didn’t drop the soap. We certainly wouldn’t decide to name a day of the year after them and celebrate their antics.
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