The Gunpowder Plot

The British royal's use of false flag events to gin up public support for the persecution of their enemies goes back centuries. The Gunpowder Plot is known only tangentially through cultural artifacts, like references in V for Vendetta and the subsequent adoption of the guy Fox mask as the symbol of Anonymous. King James then took the sensible precaution of cracking down on Catholics in England, thus ensuring that Catholic treachery would never again threaten the kingdom.