Guy Fawkes Was Framed
I’m just watching a thing on the history channel, “The Worst Jobs in History,” kind of disgusting, they’re talking about England in the 1600s, digging up shit and collecting urine door to door, picking nits and all sorts of gross stuff, but it was in the conversation about how much nasty bodily waste was needed to create gunpowder, like enough for the gunpowder plot, it was like 75 tons I think they said, that my conspiracy meter went up to 11.
Now, I must admit I tend to be a bit of a paranoid conspiracy theorist. I think believing the worst of those who are in power is simply the natural and prudent way to see things. But it’s not just political theories. I was fascinated by crop circles until the hoaxters confessed. I know people who still won’t let that one go, but proved is proved.
I am convinced that 9/11 was an inside job (2 planes, 3 buildings, it’s more physically bizarre than the magic bullet that killed Kennedy), I am convinced that LBJ had Kennedy killed, or maybe he was so powerful he didn’t even need to be involved but it was forces friendly to Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald was only a patsy. Not that JFK was an angel. I’m fully convinced that he and Bobby thad Marilyn murdered. I think Bobby might have done it himself.
So, if I’d been around in 1605, I’m certain I would have suspected James I of manufacturing a terrorist plot for no greater purpose than consolidating his still shaky hold on the throne.
Who could have more easily obtained 75 tons of explosives, James or Guy? The evidence against Fawkes was obtained under torture, so that should be inadmissable in the court of historical opinion. And James would have no trouble framing Fawkes, covering up any investigation (investigation? no such thing) and propagandizing the event to his own benefit.
It’s still a popular holiday today.
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