London's annual 'Million Mask March' on Guy Fawkes night

[TonyGosling]

Guy Fawkes Night 2016: The history behind Bonfire Night and facts about the 5th of November gunpowder plot
22:03, 6 NOV 2016 UPDATED 22:06, 6 NOV 2016
BY STEVE MYALL
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He's world famous thanks to his distinctive moustached face, which has been adopted as a mask by anti capitalists, but Guy Fawkes is best known for failing to blow up Westminster Palace.

On November 5, 1605, Guy was foiled as he plotted to destroy the Houses of Parliament during state opening and kill all inside it - including the King - in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot.

But aside from that, what do we know about the conspirator who was just 35 when he died?

He was born on April 13th 1570 in Stonegate in York, and was educated at St. Peter's School in York, preferring to be called Guido Fawkes.

As a boy he lived near York with his father Edward and his mother Edith.


His father was a Protestant and worked as a solicitor for the religious court of the church. However, in 1579 he died and three years later his mother remarried a man called Denis Bainbridge, a Catholic. So the young Guy converted.

Converting to Catholicism in those days was a big deal, as the ruling religion was the Church of England, which would not tolerate Roman Catholicism.

It was incredibly hard to worship, so devotees were driven underground - and it was from that oppression that the plot sprung.

There have been rumours that Guy met and married Maria Pulleyn in 1590 – but there are no parish records to show this, so it is open to dispute.

GettyA lantern belonging to Guy FawkesRelic: A lantern belonging to Guy Fawkes
So fervent were Guy's religious beliefs that he first choose to leave Protestant England and enlist in the Spanish army in Holland in the Eighty Years War.

There he won a reputation for great courage and cool determination and this is where he gained experience with explosives, and also where he decided to call himself Guido - probably because it sounded Spanish.

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In 1604 at Ostend, Guy met another Englishman called Thomas Winter, who had also been in Spain trying to drum up support for English Catholics.

As the two travelled back to London, Thomas told Guy that he and his friends - including Yorkshiremen John and Christopher Wright, from Welwick, and Robert Catesby - were going to take action, but needed the help of a military man who would not be recognised by the authorities.

Guy was not the mastermind behind the plot despite his subsequent fame – that was Warwickshire-born Robert Catesby, the son of a persecuted Roman Catholic.

Catesby, a wealthy man, knew most of his co-conspirators through a network of friendships with various Roman Catholic families.

The exception was Guy, who he likely to have met when he was briefly employed as a footman by Anthony Browne, 2nd Lord Montague - a family which Catesby's sister had married into.

October 18, 1605, is a crucial date with regards to the conspiracy as it is when the conspirators discussed how Catholic peers might be spared from the planned explosion.

This led to the famed ‘Monteagle Letter’ written on October 26 to catholic MP William Parker, the 4th Baron Monteagle, warning him not to come near Westminster.

In order to get close enough to their targets a cellar below the Houses of Parliament was rented by the members of the plot, which was filled with 36 barrels of gunpowder.

There was enough to completely destroy the building and damage buildings within a one mile radius of it.

The plot was undone when the anonymous letter sent to the Baron of Monteagle, warning him not to go to the House of Lords, was made public.

This led to a search of Westminster Palace being ordered and in the early hours of November 5, Guy was discovered guarding the explosives.

Initially he pretended to be a servant and said the wood belonged to his master Thomas Percy but when this was reported to the King, and the fact that Percy was a Catholic, the King ordered a second search. The gunpowder was found and Guy was arrested.

During his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot, Fawkes called himself John Johnson and when he was arrested and asked to give his name, this is the name he gave.

Shortly after being found early in the morning of November 5, the Privy Council met in the King's bedchamber and Fawkes was brought in under guard and asked explain why he wanted to kill him and blow up Parliament.

He answered that he regarded the King as a disease since he had been excommunicated by the Pope.

Asked why he he needed such a huge quantity of gunpowder, he apparently said: "To blow you Scotch beggars back to your own native mountains!"

Guy was sent to the Tower of London. King James indicated in a letter of 6 November that "The gentler tortours are to be first used unto him, and so by degrees proceeding to the worst, and so God speed your goode worke"

And over the next four days, he was questioned and tortured on the “rack” and eventually confessed and gave the names of his conspirators.

His signature on the written confession after torture, which is still held by the National Archives, was very faint and weak, and another taken a few days later was much bolder indicating how weakened he must have been by torture.

Fawkes and others involved were tried on January 31st 1606 and then sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered in the Old Palace Yard in Westminster.

The Attorney General Sir Edward Coke told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.

They were to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both".

Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed.

They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air".


But Guy escaped this horrific fate, as immediately before his execution he jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation.

He also did not have his body parts distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors.

Despite being involved in what is basically a terrorist plot, Guy Fawkes was named the 30th Greatest Briton in a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002.

Today the word "guy" is used to refer to a man but originally it was a term for an "ugly, repulsive person" in reference to Fawkes.

Straw effigies made of Guy Fawkes and thrown onto bonfires to remember the Gunpowder Plot were also known as "guys" and over time the meaning has blurred.

Following the thwarting of the plot Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the King's escape from assassination by lighting bonfires and this tradition continues today.

[TonyGosling]

The Grand-daddy of all Fake Terror Fall Guys: Guy Fawkes
Then: The Gunpowder Plotters - a Myth since the 17th century.
http://www.progressivepress.com/peaceweek/guyfaux.html

The patsies of the "popish" plot of Nov. 5, 1605. Guy Fawkes, the most infamous fall guy, is third from the right. Percy, center, was a double agent instigating the plot for the royal chancellor Lord Cecil.

The accompanying text is from the
inside front cover of 9/11 Synthetic Terror
by Webster Griffin Tarpley
Click here for larger images of the Guy Fawkes
patsies and the alleged hijackers poster

2005 marks the fourth anniversary of 9/11 - and the 400th anniversary of state-sponsored false-flag terrorism or synthetic terror in the English-speaking world: Guy Fawkes Day.
Even now, few understand that plot: Guy was no fox but a dupe ensnared by the chief minister himself in a madcap scheme to blow up King and Parliament. The real plot was royally successful: to invent a pretext for war with Spain. This fraud was the foundation of the British empire.

In 1898, the American century was ushered in by a similar anti-Spanish hoax: the bombing of the USS Maine in Havana harbor. And on 9/11/2001, plotters embedded in the US government, working on a Project for a New American Century, faked the pretext for a Clash of Civilizations - and a neo-fascist world order.

In earlier books, Webster G. Tarpley first uncovered the Bush family's key role in launching Hitler, and the fascistic P2 lodge behind the false-flag Red Brigades terrorists.
He is uniquely qualified to press the case against the perpetrators of 9/11.

Now: the 19 "Hijacker" Patsies -
9/11: Myth of the 21st Century

Above - Inside Cover of "9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA" by Webster Griffin Tarpley
Transcript of Tarpley's Guy Fawkes Day Talk on Cloak and Dagger Radio

More on Guy Fawkes: pp. 68-70 of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA
THE classic case of strategic terrorism of this type is doubtless the Gunpowder Plot of November 5, 1605, a day that is still marked each year in the English calendar as Guy Fawkes' Day. In 1605 James I Stuart, a Protestant who united in his person the crowns of Scotland and England for the first time, was considering a policy of accommodation with the Spanish Empire, the leading Catholic power. James was also considering some measures of toleration for Catholics in England, where the majority of the landed gentry in the north of the country was still loyal to Rome. An influential group in London, backed by Venetian intelligence from abroad, wanted to push James I into a confrontation with the Spanish Empire, from which they hoped among other things to extract great personal profit. They also thought it was politically vital to keep persecuting the Roman Catholics. Chief among the war party was the royal chancellor, roughly equivalent to prime minister, who was Lord Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury. Cecil set out to sway James I to adopt his policy, by means of terrorism.

Acting behind the scenes, Cecil cultivated some prominent Catholics, one of them Lord Thomas Percy from the famous Catholic Percy family, and used them as cut-outs to direct the operations of a group of naïve Catholic fanatics and adventurers, among them a certain gullible gentleman named Guy Fawkes. Thomas Percy was supposedly a Catholic fanatic, but in reality was a bigamist. This group of Catholic fanatics hatched the idea first of tunneling into the basement of the Houses of Parliament from a nearby house, and then simply of renting the basement of the Houses of Parliament, in order to pack that basement with explosives for the purpose of blowing up King, Lords, and Commons when James I came to open the Parliament early that November. But instead Guy Fawkes was caught going into the basement the night before the great crime was scheduled to occur. Fawkes and the rest of the plotters were tortured and hanged, and several Catholic clergy were also scapegoated. James I put aside his plans for toleration of Catholics, and England set out on a century of wars against the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, from which in turn the British Empire was born. Guy Fawkes Day became the yearly festival of "no popery" and hatred of Spain.

Concerning the Gunpowder Plot, the Jesuit Gerard concludes that "for purposes of State, the government of the day [meaning Cecil] either found means to instigate the conspirators to undertake their enterprise, or, at least, being, from an early stage of the undertaking, fully aware of what was going on, sedulously nursed the insane scheme till the time came to make capital out of it. That the conspirators, or the greater number of them, really meant to strike a great blow is not to be denied, though it may be less easy to assure ourselves of its precise character; and their guilt will not be palliated should it appear that, in projecting an atrocious crime, they were unwittingly playing the game of plotters more astute than themselves." (Gerard 17)
Here we have an excellent definition of state-sponsored terrorism. Gerard's method of proof is this: "It will be enough to show that, whatever its origin, the conspiracy was, and must have been, known to those in power, who, playing with their infatuated dupes, allowed them to go on with their mad scheme, till the moment came to strike with full effect." (Gerard 55) This can also be applied to 9/11.

It should be added that James I does not seem to have been aware of the operation in advance. The plot was not directed against him; it rather intended to push him in a specific policy direction. After the event, James I does appear to have realized what Cecil's role had been, at least to some extent. Father Gerard speaks of Thomas Percy, Cecil's agent in the Gunpowder Plot, as a "tame duck employed to catch the wild ones." (Gerard 152) But the fact that he was Cecil's agent did not prevent Percy from being killed as part of the cover-up after November 5. At the risk of mixing metaphors, we can cite the opinion of a contemporary observer that Cecil, once he had secured the game birds he was seeking, hanged the spaniel who had actually caught them for him, "that its master's art might not appear." (Gerard 153)

Transcript of Tarpley's Guy Fawkes Day Talk on Cloak and Dagger Radio

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