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>> >> ML wrote : >> >> "Guy Fawkes: the only man to enter Parliament with honest >> intentions". >> >> That's fucking brilliant. >> >> epoliticus >> I love the joke, too. But the history itself is not without interest. Fawkes was a subaltern in a Roman Catholic (or Papist, as it was then called) conspiracy, covered by the Earls of Percy and Northumberland, to overthrow the Protestant monarchy and restore a Papist reign like Bloody Mary's. The plot never had the least chance and Fawkes was allowed to get into the cellar of Parliament only because Walsingham's intelligence service had soaked the gunpowder so it could never explode. Fawkes was the chosen centerpiece for a show trial. But popular history, as always, had the last laugh. Shane Mage "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté." Bardo Thodol ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
