Innocence Often Cannot Be Proven

It is more than likely that, like dissidents
down the ages, government agent provocateurs
made sure that Guy Fawkes, Thomas Wintour,
and Robert Catesby took the only logical course
of action that seemed right for the cause.
And the government agents knew they could stop 
 what the three started, and would enjoy seeing them arrested
for something they had goaded the three to do. 

This story needs to be updated for the age of conspiracies
consider it done.