CDZ Guy Fawkes terrorist or hero???

[Zebra]

good video!

 

[Zebra]

Interesting dichotomy in Brittan over the late Mr. Fawkes.

In York he's a hero. Their big October illumination a couple of years ago was based on a tribute to him.

But it didn't happen.

Because London thinks of him a terrorist and withdrew traditional illumination funding unless they'd drop the subject. So they did. At the last minute. The lighting display that year was a disaster and thousands who formerly had visited York, stayed in hotels, ate in restaurants and spent lots of cash stayed home for several subsequent years and the economy went down the tubes.

So who was the terrorist in recent times?

In history hero v. terrorist is decided by outcome. You win; hero. You lose terrorist. Only for that is George Washington a national hero. To some.

Mr fawkes WAS a hero!

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Well, we know he was not Kit Harrington.

We do know he was a committed radical Roman Catholic.

 

[PeterPilot]

He was a hero.

 

[whitehall]

Way way wrong forum.

 

[Sparker]

As a British guy in college explained it to me in college almost 30 years ago, Guy Fawkes Night was a holiday when British kids pulled a wagon with a Guy Fawkes doll to neighbors' homes, saying "Penny for the old guy?" to get money for fireworks to blow up the doll. Adequately explosive fireworks became too restricted for kids to buy, so parents dropped the holiday and adopted the American Halloween with trick-or-treating.

Americans could return the favor by adopting Guy Fawkes Night. Terrorist or hero, doesn't matter, get some fireworks.