{"id":4456,"date":"2011-11-05T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2011-11-05T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T17:48:29","slug":"gunpowder-treason-and-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Gunpowder, treason and plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; instance of religious terrorism, UK, Catholicism, Protestantism, Vendetta-the-movie, Anonymous, OWS, Pharaoh ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/men.jpg\" title=\"men.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/men.jpg\" alt=\"men.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am seven hours &#8220;behind&#8221; the land of my birth, but today would be the day on which to remember one <strong>Guy <\/strong>&#8212; named Guido in the image above &#8212; <strong>Fawkes<\/strong>, a terrorist whose <strong>religious and political sympathies<\/strong> were closely interwoven.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Archbishop Cranmer<\/strong>&#8216;s [dare I say, <strong>Laudable<\/strong>?] <a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/remember-remember-5th-of-november.html\">blog today<\/a> has a poetic description of the event, a fine illustration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gunpowderplot.jpg\" title=\"gunpowderplot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gunpowderplot.jpg\" alt=\"gunpowderplot.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and some fascinating comments portraying both the event itself and religious terror more generally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have had four hundred years to &#8220;remember, remember&#8221; &#8212; should we remember, or should we forgive and forget?<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The mask worn in the movie <strong>V for Vendetta<\/strong> is a Guy Fawkes mask, now also associated with both the <strong>Anonymous <\/strong>group and the <strong>Occupy <\/strong>movement&#8230; and it shows up in all sorts of strange places&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/images1.jpg\" title=\"images1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/images1.jpg\" alt=\"images1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Pharaoh<\/strong>? <em>Guy Fawkes<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Clear proof that if you connect too many dots, you may go what we Brits call &#8220;dotty&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; instance of religious terrorism, UK, Catholicism, Protestantism, Vendetta-the-movie, Anonymous, OWS, Pharaoh ] . I am seven hours &#8220;behind&#8221; the land of my birth, but today would be the day on which to remember one Guy &#8212; named Guido in the image above &#8212; Fawkes, a terrorist whose religious and political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,633,414,129,53,526,645,673,51,199,211,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17th-century","category-633","category-ancient-history","category-blogging","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-counterpoint","category-egypt","category-history","category-insurgency","category-terrorism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}