Guy Fawkes In Effigy

Nov 07, 2015#1

At Sunnydale A.F.S. the duty officer at
Air Force Satellite Control Network Command
sits up with a start. Panic begins to filter down to his team
watching the flickering red images on their screens

Call the C.O.!
His Commanding Officer phones back,
What's up Ted?
You'd better come see Sir, there's
something up. The whole of the British Isles
is lit up like World War Two! 

The second clerk to the British ambassador explains:

He is guilty of treason and will be drawn
backwards by a wattle hurdle to the 
place of execution his head near to the 
ground. He is to be put to death between 
heaven and earth as he is unworthy of either

His genitals are to be severed and burned
before his sight, his heart and bowels
removed whilst still alive and displayed for
all to see. His head: to be severed from
his body, his cadaver to be cut in pieces
and sent to the distant parts of the kingdom
so all may know the end of a traitor

From this day forth, every year, a day to
remember by burning in effigy by the
populace. It is to be celebrated by all loyal
subjects to his Majesty King James the first
of England, the sixth of Scotland and to his 
heirs in perpetuity

You don't say?
'Fraid so!