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HipChick

(25,485 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:14 AM Nov 2013

Guy Fawkes..Hero or Terrorist?

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But four centuries after he, and his fellow conspirators, were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason, Guy Fawkes has become a figure-head for protest by such groups as Anonymous. Hero or Terrorist?

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Guy Fawkes..Hero or Terrorist? (Original Post) HipChick Nov 2013 OP

both kydo Nov 2013 #1

Attempted assassin of James 1 of England FarCenter Nov 2013 #2

The mind boggles once again... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #3

Wasn't Fawkes a Catholic zealot? longship Nov 2013 #4

kydo

(2,679 posts)

1. both

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:20 AM

Nov 2013

For the established government he would be a terrorist.
For those opposing the established government he is a hero.

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

2. Attempted assassin of James 1 of England

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:21 AM

Nov 2013

Since there was no media at the time, he could not be a terrorist. He intended to achieve his effect directly by blowing up the King and Parliament.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. The mind boggles once again...

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:27 AM

Nov 2013

first that the "revolutionary" Fawkes becomes a fictional hero, then when V, a mass murderer, becomes a hero, then when Anonymous chooses the mass murderer as its logo, and now as a phony libertarian completes the circle back to Fawkes.

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. Wasn't Fawkes a Catholic zealot?

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:43 AM

Nov 2013

I am a bit ignorant of the history, but I remember reading about that fact.

"Give a penny for the guy."

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