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November 07, 2005
Remember, remember the fifth of November
Cambridge historian, Mark Nicholls compares today's terrorism, and government response, to that of the early seventeenth-century. Apples and oranges, really.
"The gunpowder plotters weren't looking at simply generating terror. The explosion was to have been the first step in a projected military coup. ... They were going to use the disaffected people in England. They knew they were on to a loser if they were to rely on Catholics alone. That sets them apart from the fundamentalist terrorists, where religion is the core influencing factor."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 7, 2005 08:03 AM
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