Wednesday, November 03, 2010

The 1605 Gunpowder Plot

Guido (Guy) Fawkes
The 405th anniversary of the  Gunpowder Plot approaches.
Overshadowed somewhat these days by a US commercialised version of “All-Hallows-Eve” – aka “Halloween” when the ghosts, demons, ghouls, and all that is evil,  go on a fling before being banished by that now near-forgotten “All-Hallows-Day” aka “All Saints Day”,  of the Church Triumphant on 1st November.
Few who cavort on “Halloween” are aware of its origins. Rather more I suspect are aware of the origins of “Bonfire night” on 5th November, when that dastardly popish plotter, Guy Fawkes, is ceremonially burned atop bonfires throughout the land, to celebrate the foiling of his wicked scheme to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
There are bemusing  but valuable parallels with our present-day predicament for those with eyes to see:
A certain Robert Cecil – Spymaster extraordinaire to His Majesty King James I of England, VI of Scotland, and “Fidei Defensor” against Popish usurpers – nursed a pressing need to kill off uppity ideas of relief for HM’s persecuted Catholic population, once and for all. As moderator and arch-manipulator of the decisions of Court, he was well placed so to do. He knew well enough who the hot-heads among the dissidents were (the young rangy firebrands, constantly shouting the odds and harboring delusions of rising up against their oppressors);  he had them well infiltrated. What better way to destroy them and their co-religionists than to:
  • sow the idea
  • nurture and provoke a little
  • facilitate supplies and logistics etc
  • make sure Mr Plod doesn’t interdict the hair-brained schemers prematurely
Then BINGO!!!! SHOCK – HORROR!!! – catch them in the act – and in the nick of time.
The population is outraged – “Those wicked WICKED Catholics!!!”; Additional protection and  “Security” measures are demanded – ad nauseam……
Sound familiar?
But naturally enough, we prefer to continue celebrating the exploits of OUR heroic security services and the gross torture and execution of a bunch of stupid manipulated, manufactured “terrorists”, rather than reading the unwelcome and extremely unpleasant writing on the wall. After all they/we are  British and have “British Values”,  so such things are simply unthinkable.
No doubt we’ll be celebrating similar feats of derring do by “our boys” when the horror of our joint destruction of the cradle of civilisation and its peoples fades a little too.
After all the Cecils remain a power in the land for their loyalty and service – attributes far and away preferred and valued by the State, than mere honesty and  common humanity.
Plus ca change.

5 comments:

  1. Exactly.

    Hullo Sabretache, how are you? I've been getting a bit stinky over at Craig's again. One wonders if it's worth it. It just really irks me that he's happy to look into the small stuff but denies the 911 elephant in the living room.

    Seems he's calling for Scottish independence now, which I think is a good thing, so he's not completely useless but really one does have to wonder at the fellow. On 911 is he naive? Or some low-rent version of complicit?

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  2. Hi Nobby

    I'm still plugging away. I put the odd comment on Craig's blog more out of devilment than expectation of a Eureka moment. It really is wearisome reading through all that self-important Charles Crawford and Brian Barder stuff though. No doubt it's all poured over by the Spooks too.

    I don't think I was far out with my post back in January. Like many (most) on the so-called Left (a trivial almost meaningless term really) ties to the Establishment with fond delusions about the possibility of "taking Power" (what a laugh) and producing worthwhile "democratic" change, are the lifeline they cannot let go off.

    My time is heavily applied to WikiSpooks these days. You should pop over and take a look. After 4 months hard slog it's beginning to take shape as a (hopefully) credible reference source. I could do with some help though because of the 3,500 articles, documents, files etc to date, I've authored and or 'wikified' all but about a dozen myself and am suffering from a bit of burn-out.

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  3. OOPS
    The link to Wikispooks was duff and even the owner can't edit his own comments on Blogger (At least I can't figure out how to).

    This is the WikiSpooks Main Page

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  4. Anonymous5:34 pm

    http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2007/07/classic-double-agents-in-false-flag.html

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  5. Thanks Tache,

    I went back and read your thing and you're right. You did nail it. Why didn't I comment there? Anyway, very good. Meanwhile I vote we give up on Craig, leave him to it, but pop in occasionally with a come-from-sideways guerilla attack to rattle the spooks.

    Otherwise, I think your anon there is everyone's favourite Scottish school girl collective. I shall pop in to see how they're doing.

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