he was trying to kill the king because the king was protestant and he wanted a king who'd force everyone to be catholic it's celebrating that he was stopped hung drawn and quartered L + rip bozo
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"The last man to enter parliament with honest intentions".
TBF it's a celebration that a plot to use terrorism to institute a Catholic theocracy failed.
IDK why people idolize the guy, he was a wannabe Catholic theocrat.
That shit Bloody Mary did, he wanted to do that but make it stick this time.
You mean before or after he's appropriated by Alan Moore as an anarchist symbol?
It's called Guy Fawkes night, not James 1st night or Cecil of Salisbury night. We mark it by setting off explosions and burning things, just like Guido wanted to do. Guido gets the cool character design, and big screen reimaginings where he's a badass counterculture dude. Guido failed in his plot, but he won the PR war.
"Come on, kids! Let's go door to door asking for help celebrating a guy burning to death!"
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To be fair, the government at the time was is an asshole.
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don't blame me i was celebrating man getting hit in the groin with a football
"Do you like music?"
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