Guy Fawkes and the Result Thereof
What a night of frayed nerves,loud bangs and disregard to animals big or small,not forgetting children as well.It does not cease to amaze me at the fact that some people don't have enough money to feed their families ,let alone celebrate if that is what it is all about,even if it is not celebrated as a public holiday or has any bearing on their lives whatsoever.be it the past or the present
I could never understand why in South Africa given that the majority population being African born and bred in South Africa and having no connection with Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish,and was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Low Countries. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England without success.So as far as I am concerned it is a No Brainer and makes no sense as the only persons to gain monetary wise in this senseless waste of money is the shopkeeper or supplier of fireworks,which is banned in certain built up areas throughout Cape Town and different regions in the country.I believe it should be banned "PERIOD".The animals are traumatised and the hospitals land up with injuries unnecessary inflicted upon themselves because of lack of knowledge on the handling of fireworks. The fire department has to be on standby IN CASE of the fire devastation that takes place each year and not only destroys our faun and flora but have homes going up in flames especially in Cape Town with the winds and surrounding mountains.and thatch roofed homes.
My thought on this is whoever celebrates Guy Fawkes in another country, be it part of their history,so be it, but don't adopt other country celebration when it means nothing to you besides the fact that you only want to use the fireworks as a way of nonsensical entertainment.
Comments (5)
This guy named Fawkes seems to be really into it.
Cool.
Fawkes...Odd name. Don't b'lieve I've heard of a guy named Fawkes before.
Go figure.
that scares hell outta 'em, you betcha!
Ain't managed to kill many of 'em though.
Danged bottle rockets are too hard to aim
I guess that makes it more sporting though.
I wonder if that Fawkes guy has any better luck bringin' 'em down?
New Zealand celebrates Guy Fawkes day with crackers but here in Australia they don't..probably because there are so few Catholics in this country
anyway
Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he confessed. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation that followed.