[Alex Murphy]

At about midnight on the night of November 4-5, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Guy Fawkes lurking in a cellar under the Parliament building and ordered the premises searched. Some 20 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was taken into custody. During a torture session on the rack, Fawkes revealed that he was a participant in an English Catholic conspiracy to annihilate England's Protestant government and replace it with Catholic leadership....In 1606, Parliament established November 5 as a day of public thanksgiving. Today, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated across Great Britain every year on November 5 in remembrance of the Gunpowder Plot. As dusk falls, villagers and city dwellers across Britain light bonfires, set off fireworks, and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes, celebrating his failure to blow Parliament and James I to kingdom come.

[ArtDodger]

Remember, remember the 5th of November.....

[jsanders2001]

V for Vendetta...: } -

[DannyTN]

[mbarker12474]

In a related vein:

Thus Always to Tyrants

[dirtymac]

“During a torture session on the rack, Fawkes revealed that he was a participant in an English Catholic conspiracy to annihilate England’s Protestant government and replace it with Catholic leadership”

But, I was told by progressives that torture NEVER resulted in reliable information.

Then why has it been used throughout history if it did not work?

[C19fan]

Thomas Hardy’s in the opening chapters of “Return of the Native” uses the bonfires for Guy Fawkes Day to add to the romantic tension of Eustacia Vye meeting her clandestine lover Damon Wildeve.

[CTrent1564]

And just in case you did not get the memo, the Treaty of Wesphalia ended the Catholic-Protestant wars in 1648 which among its basic points were to allow Catholics where they were the minority and Lutherans and Calvinist where they were the minority to practice their religion in private at will and to be able to attend public worship at set times during the day. The Church of England, for whatever reason, did not sign the Treaty? Of course as the article states, the persecution of Catholics started well before the Fawkes plot, that is, Certain Catholics would not recognize the Church of England and the King as head of the Church. Of course, this is what got THomas Moore, and others, killed over 100 years before setting off a chain of events that continued till the early 1600’s.

So Alex: When are you as the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades here going to call for a declaration of war on the FR Catholics and negate the Treaty of Westphalia?

If so, where shall go to do battle? Somewhere in the middle of the US so we can all get there?

I am sure if a declaration of war by you is called, you and the FR Protestant brigades will honor the just War Principles laid out by the great Catholic Theologians, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas that is, among other things, direct attacks on non combatants is forbidden, prisoners of war will be treated justly, etc, etc.

[Delta 21]

Nothing but a criminal.