WEBVTT 00:23.180 --> 00:29.040 The things they don't teach us in America about our own history could fill so many volumes. 00:29.420 --> 00:33.240 And especially when it comes to our shared history with England. 00:34.020 --> 00:39.960 They boiled all of that history down into one little moment in time basically and then 00:39.960 --> 00:41.960 just kind of threw everything else away. 00:42.580 --> 00:47.920 If Americans these days know about the 5th of November, it's likely because they watched 00:48.820 --> 00:52.500 Remember, remember the 5th of November. 00:53.000 --> 00:58.180 The 5th of November is known as Guy Fawkes Night in England or Bonfire Night. 00:58.640 --> 01:06.620 And it began after the gunpowder plot of November 5th 1605 was foiled when Guy Fawkes was arrested, 01:07.300 --> 01:12.300 guarding explosives that the alleged plotters had placed under the House of Lords. 01:12.300 --> 01:21.980 The plotters were Catholic and they apparently intended to assassinate Protestant King James I and his Parliament. 01:22.620 --> 01:27.300 The bonfires and fireworks displays very much like July 4th here in America. 01:27.540 --> 01:34.120 The fireworks displays on November 5th happened across England and it became an annual celebration 01:34.120 --> 01:41.620 of how God protected the King and his Parliament, the Protestant King and his Parliament from the Catholic plotters. 01:41.620 --> 01:50.500 Actually the following year in 1606 an observance act was passed mandating that date to be an annual public day of Thanksgiving 01:50.500 --> 01:54.540 which remained on the statute in England until 1859. 01:59.920 --> 02:08.380 And I'm sure that you would all be really shocked to hear that there is some evidence that the gunpowder plot was actually a false flag. 02:08.700 --> 02:11.920 More perfect stage could not be asked for. 02:11.920 --> 02:17.120 There's actually a book that was written in 1897 called What was the Gunpowder Plot? 02:17.240 --> 02:24.380 The traditional story tested by original evidence which raises some pretty good questions and points out that 02:24.380 --> 02:33.240 not only was the government immediately suspected at the time, widely, of having contrived or somehow fomented this plot, 02:33.460 --> 02:39.640 but there was evidence that the government was fully aware that this was in progress and knew about it months in advance 02:39.640 --> 02:45.760 at the very least and allowed it to play out in a certain way in order that the government could discover the plot 02:45.760 --> 02:51.120 and stop it for religious and political gain and also to promote legislation. 02:52.500 --> 02:58.600 And one of the guys that is suspected as being behind it was the royal chancellor Sir Robert Cecil, 02:58.680 --> 03:03.440 the Earl of Salisbury who has been likened in the modern day to the Dick Cheney of his time 03:03.440 --> 03:10.040 who would have contrived the plot under Queen Elizabeth actually but couldn't do it at the time because she passed away 03:10.040 --> 03:17.880 so he brought it back under James I and the goal was to make Catholicism so odious to the British people 03:17.880 --> 03:25.440 that they could expel all the Roman Catholics from the country and confiscate all of their estates 03:25.440 --> 03:33.980 while also boosting the idea that God had chosen to protect Protestant King James and his parliament via the chosen religion 03:33.980 --> 03:39.040 so it gives more power to the state. Basically the idea is they foiled their own plot. 03:39.640 --> 03:48.500 I will say the government had a full detailed official story all sealed up and ready to deliver to the British people by November 7th. 03:48.500 --> 03:55.340 They had all the details, everything lined out, everything that happened, they had solved the whole case in like less than 48 hours 03:55.340 --> 04:02.400 which is just amazing police work for 1605. Cecil was also part of something called the War Party 04:02.400 --> 04:10.820 which had a goal of pushing King James into a war with the Spanish Empire which of course would have made them all very wealthy. 04:10.820 --> 04:18.600 After this was over England became very fixated on concepts like homeland security. 04:19.140 --> 04:25.500 I mean it's just if you look into this rabbit hole you'll find a very very familiar story in here. 04:26.040 --> 04:28.360 The rest is the same as history. 04:28.700 --> 04:36.880 But anyway I mean I don't know if you're if you're at all aware of the history of false flags this whole thing sounds remarkably familiar. 04:37.320 --> 04:38.860 Can you prove any of this? 04:38.860 --> 04:40.640 Why do you think I'm still alive? 04:41.060 --> 04:50.060 But what most Americans were probably never taught is that the 5th of November became Pope's Day or Pope's Night here in the American colonies. 04:50.720 --> 04:53.960 So this was widely celebrated here for a long time. 04:54.180 --> 05:02.540 In fact there's some evidence that it was first celebrated in American colonies in Plymouth back in 1623 05:02.540 --> 05:08.020 and it was going pretty strong in the 25 years leading up to the American Revolution. 05:08.020 --> 05:09.860 All up and down the coast. 05:10.280 --> 05:16.900 In New York City as far south as Charleston but most especially and famously in Boston. 05:17.640 --> 05:26.580 In Boston Pope's Night was this annual ritual of reversal where the the plebs the lower classes ruled the city for a day. 05:27.080 --> 05:35.280 Boys and girls of all ages they would go door to door kind of like mummers and they would beg for money and treats sort of like Halloween. 05:36.640 --> 05:46.520 But the big show came in the evening when two companies the North End Company and the South End Company very similar sounding to the way 05:46.520 --> 05:56.020 crews who design and parade Mardi Gras floats do they they would the North End Company and the South End Company would parade giant 05:56.020 --> 06:05.200 effigies of the Pope the devil and the pretender which is the pretender to the throne James Stewart whose son Charles led the failed 1745 06:05.200 --> 06:10.320 Jacobite uprising in England in a bid to regain the throne for his father. 06:11.280 --> 06:20.120 So that failed but these companies these companies for Pope's Night in Boston would make those effigies and they would put them on wagons 06:20.120 --> 06:30.040 and they would parade them through town every year on the 5th of November they people would chant no popery and they would battle it out 06:30.040 --> 06:35.900 to see who could destroy the other companies effigies and then they would take all that stuff and they would go to the green 06:35.900 --> 06:42.000 the Boston Common and they would burn it like whoever lost got their stuff burned in a giant bonfire. 06:42.000 --> 06:53.240 But the reason this is important to know about is because the organized resistance to the Stamp Act, which is the event that pretty much precipitated 06:53.240 --> 06:57.680 and ultimately accelerated the lead up to the American Revolution. 06:58.640 --> 07:03.520 The the organized resistance to the Stamp Act drew off of these two companies in Boston. 07:04.200 --> 07:13.320 Ebenezer McIntosh was a shoemaker he was the captain of the South End Company and he would later become nicknamed the captain of the Liberty Tree 07:13.320 --> 07:23.800 in these protests, which is another symbol that we're not really taught about in school at all that you know some historians such as Alfred Young 07:23.800 --> 07:32.680 who wrote about it said that it was purposefully forgotten by the elites who kind of wanted to put the genie back in the bottle of radical revolution 07:32.680 --> 07:40.680 because without the Liberty Tree there would have been no American Revolution that's just straight up so there's a reason it's been purposefully forgotten 07:40.680 --> 07:45.180 and not just forgotten to history this one was purposefully forgotten. 07:45.780 --> 07:55.400 But you had the merchant class together with the middle class the popular leaders of the middle class together with the lower classes everybody was 07:55.400 --> 08:04.640 uniting together around these ideas of fighting off these taxes no taxation without representation and the ideas of Liberty. 08:04.800 --> 08:07.200 It united everyone across the board. 08:07.460 --> 08:15.000 Women were getting political for the first time teenagers were getting political slaves were getting political everybody was getting political at this time. 08:15.000 --> 08:27.900 So the Pope's Day kind of flipped over and became patriotic in the fight against King George and the the British monarchy system. 08:28.360 --> 08:43.820 You had the North and South companies the Pope's Day companies coming together and uniting and calling a truce so they could join forces to be part of this organized set of actions that took place to defeat the Stamp Act. 08:43.820 --> 08:52.480 Followed by a massive community celebration of the axe repeal which everybody participated in and celebrated. 08:53.320 --> 08:55.420 It was a huge huge big deal. 08:55.660 --> 09:12.660 Everyone was out in the streets celebrating that together and the shouts of no popery changed over to shouts of Liberty and property and John Hancock who was the wealthiest person in Boston at the time he bought the officers of the companies uniforms 09:12.660 --> 09:25.640 and kind of unofficially drafted them as leaders in this resistance in the massive public protests that were happening in the lead up to American Revolution. 09:26.260 --> 09:36.540 So these these unofficial officers from these Pope's Day companies became like white hats and keeping the violence to a minimum in these protests and keeping things orderly. 09:36.540 --> 09:47.560 So instead of today for example where you have agent provocateurs who will infiltrate a peaceful protest and turn it violent so it can make it look bad and undermine the entire purpose of the protest. 09:48.400 --> 10:00.240 These guys these Pope's Day guys who were who were drafted by Hancock they would go through the crowd with their own motto which was literally quote no violence or you will hurt the cause. 10:00.240 --> 10:09.580 And without those guys I mean things probably would have been a lot more violent there were a few tarings and featherings it wasn't as common as they make it seem these days when they talk about it. 10:09.600 --> 10:12.360 But things could have been so much worse. 10:12.620 --> 10:24.700 It wasn't just crazy mob riots it was organized protests with a purpose that were very peaceful by comparison to a lot of revolutions that have occurred in human history. 10:25.680 --> 10:38.480 So unfortunately those companies trues broke in 1773 and it all kind of fell apart in the Boston leaders banned Pope's Day in 1774 and then it got kind of double banned because General Washington. 10:39.320 --> 10:45.120 Banded among his soldiers in 1775 because America was trying to solicit help from French Canada. 10:45.120 --> 10:54.980 And he was like hey it doesn't really make sense to insult the religion of an entire country we're trying to get to help us in our revolution against Britain so maybe we should probably stop doing that. 10:55.220 --> 11:06.540 But this moment in history where they shifted a community ritual like Pope's Day and turned it patriotic to use it in uniting the people to fight the Stamp Act. 11:06.540 --> 11:16.520 Across all sectors of society uniting these people to come up against this was a huge shift in the consciousness of the colonies. 11:17.080 --> 11:27.600 It's just kind of interesting how forgotten this part of the history is because people know I mean some people know about the Stamp Act and how it precipitated the American Revolution. 11:27.780 --> 11:34.840 But a lot of people don't realize that the Stamp Act was built on the back of Pope's Day which is remember remember the 5th of November. 11:34.840 --> 11:46.620 And so in a way without Pope's Day, Pope's Night without the organized protesting of the Stamp Act that was built off of the community rituals of Pope's Night it wouldn't have happened that way. 11:47.040 --> 11:52.860 It's just kind of strange how much of our history in this country has been forgotten and some of it very purposefully. 11:53.440 --> 11:58.940 They don't want the people to have the formulas for how to change things. 11:59.620 --> 12:03.640 It's really clear once you do the research it's really it's pretty clear. 12:03.640 --> 12:13.340 And I guess I just wanted to tell you guys about that because it's really strange this year how it just so happened that Britain had their elections on the 4th of July. 12:13.860 --> 12:17.300 And our election happens to fall on the 5th of November. 12:17.920 --> 12:24.520 Strange how that works out for what has got to be the craziest election I've ever seen in my lifetime. 12:24.520 --> 12:31.220 Remember remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder treason and plot. 12:31.660 --> 12:36.880 I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgotten.