Think about it. While I don’t advocate violent overthrow of government, the Gunpowder Plot is exactly what happens when unjust government pushes people too far. (It’s not advocacy of violence to simply note history and the fact that those who do not learn from history… etc.)
"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Fawkes was the Dirty Harry of his day, did what many would like to do, or more accurately, attempted to do.
Yeh, TF, Fawkes was ahead of his time. He could have been an American Revolutionary… All he and his compatriots wanted was no more (or less, really) than the American colonists wanted: their rights as Englishmen.