Guy Fawkes' idea was kill everyone and go and get some foreigners to oppress (oops sorry - rule over) the English - not too bright an 'idea' - see Hammonds science show, where they re-enacted the bomb and its effects IRL. His experiment showed it would have succeeded in killing the whole government Commons and Lords + the King.
I agree with you on that one. It's not really that strange, the story of Guy Fawkes is told like a cheery story, even in my old English Textbooks, never mind the fact he was a terrorist, wanting to reintroduce a catholic rule that was becoming more and more authoritarian by the year. It's funny to see his name linked with liberty. It's like people using photos of 1960s Camaros to illustrate great handling and cornering.
That OBAMA birth cert.:
I must say it does seem very odd that all this birth certificate rubbish has blown up when a black/mixed race (which is what he really is) chap is in office, do not recall it having ever been mentioned before about any other encumberent of the oval office, nor was it as far as I recall been brought up during the campaign (I like McCain and he would not, I suggest, stoop so low)- possible racism by someone?
It's a common thing to say, that you open yourself to racism accusations once you critizese someone who's not white. I got to say, in this case, I think a lot of it is racism. It would never, ever have been an issue if Obama was white. Never. Ever. In the history of the world.
Just to illustrate how ludicrous it is, NO ONE has raised the question that McCain was born in Panama. Sure, in the Canal Zone, so it was US territory, I suppose, but it was still in Latin America, some miles from any American state. What's to say McCain wasn't born in a hospital outside the Canal Zone? Perhaps the family was on an outing, and young McCain were coming early?
I?m not saying that's what happened, because it wasn't. And both his parents were American citizens anyway. But I still have to ask, why did the black guy get the scrutiny he got, while the white guy didn't?
If it wasn't about race.. then I'm a fucking canoo.
Personally I thought he would actually have been a better President, certainly from the Ukanian view of the world - less dithery especially over foreign policy.
He's a great improvement over W. I think we forget how tired we were of W. when he left office..