Posted on 12/19/2012 7:24:55 AM PST by combat_boots
If one were to look at pictures of the Occupy protests that are spreading in major cities all across the world, the one group of people you can’t afford to miss out are the people wearing the Guy Fawkes masks and holding up quotes from Alan Moore’s famous graphic novel V for Vendetta.
So who is Guy Fawkes? Well, he belongs to early 17th century England and was part of the Gun Powder plot in 1605. The Gun powder plot was by a group of English Catholics who wanted to assassinate the protestant King James.The conspirators sought to blow up the British Parliament in July but due to the plague the Parliament was only opened on November 5th. The gun powder was discovered in the early hours of 5th November and as Fawkes was seen leaving the cellar where the gun powder had been found, he was arrested, later tried and executed. November 5 in Britain thus became Guy Fawkes Day in order the celebrate the King’s escape from the assassination. For Guy Fawkes, the struggle was between the Catholics and the Protestants. So why are current wall street protestors wearing Guy Fawkes masks?
It is in the novel V for Vendetta where the masks are made popular by the central character V. The identity of V is never revealed and the major theme in the novel is V’s fight against the fascist state.
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Since the beginning, I had always found it a little ironic that OWS wears those masks. To me, V was always anti-govt, but these OWS tools are always the useful idiots of the state. They think they are against something, but they are clamoring for government control of the things they don’t like. Morons.
One needs to watch V movie carefully. For it is not about the power of the people occupy anarchist uprising.
Those who have seen it clearly will see where the power actually comes from.
Very libertarian with a very small L
I wonder....since no reference to what kind of mask was made and since his computer hard drive "may be beyond repair" as reported by the LEOs...could Lanza have been wearing a Guy Fawkes mask? And were there numerous indications that Lanza was an OWS sympathizer on his hard drive?
Juuuust wondering. Surely, the media of today would want to report something like that. Wouldn't they?
It’s the paradoxical outcome of realizing and denying you have become the thing you hate.
It’s l;ike punk rockers singing F the system as they collect record company royalties. See Tom Morello/Rage Against The Macnine for posterboy No. 1.
More likely they saw the movie, or maybe the graphic novel then to study a 400 year old dead white guy.
But the image was so cool!
I’m sorry, you can read things into it if you want to, but the Wachowskis are lefties and they clearly had a left-wing agenda they tried to put in the film. They took cheap shots at Bush and Christianity, while they glorified Islam and homosexuality. That’s not libertarian, that’s progressive agitprop.
The original comic books were not as bad, but still tilted a little to the left, like most all comic books do.
2 funny things to note.
Before Anonymous picked up the symbol, the Guy Fawkes mask was an internet meme known as “Epic Fail Guy”.
The mask rights are owned by Time Warner so every time they buy a mask to protest big business, they are putting money in big business’ pocket.
True, but rather an inadequate description.
Had they succeeded, it would have been more equivalent to blowing up the Capitol during the State of the Union Address. Take out the whole government.
What I find most bizarre about the whole plot is that the most likely reaction would have been truly massive pogroms against English Catholics.
IMHO, it’s just another example of poseurism.
It’s cool to look and act like a revolutionary, and that is apparently enough to absolve the participants of having to give any thought to the likely results of their demands.
A lemming with a hippster mask is still a lemming.
They are a specific type of anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, who have always been allied with the commies. They believe that in order for them to achieve their anarchist goals, they have to smash capitalism first, and then they can worry about whether the anarchists or the communists will take over. Of course, the anarchists never win that second struggle, they are just another bunch of useful idiots dancing to the commies’ tune.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Who doubts that our current crop of "anarchists" are all for disarming private citizens and creating a national police force with power to arrest people before they've even committed a crime (all to keep us "safe")?
Most people who call themselves anarchists aren't anarchists.
Those who have seen it clearly will see where the power actually comes from.
Very libertarian with a very small L
I always felt the ending was a bit naive though, if the government had been truly evil (think Hitler, Stalin, Mao) they wouldn't have hesitated one second to mow down all those unarmed people wearing masks. An unarmed uprising of the people doesn't go very far when the people in power have no compunctions against exterminating them.
I got the same message from the “V for Vendetta” movie where it was anti-government with a libertarian, “just leave me alone,” bent.
Read the book. Much superior to, and different from, the movie. (Not to bash the movie at all.)
Most people who call themselves anarchists aren’t anarchists.
Guy Fawkes wasn’t a figure of anti-establishment as many of his new fans and followers today see him. He was a figure of anti-Protestant establishment. His goal, and that of his conspirators, was to replace the Protestant monarchy of England with a Catholic one. Anyone who entertains the thought of donning a Guy Fawkes mask should keep that in mind especially since the Catholic Church is in their crosshairs.
“An unarmed uprising of the people doesn’t go very far when the people in power have no compunctions against exterminating them.”
The crux is whether the front-line troops will pull the triggers.
V spent a year on one-sided psychological warfare. Having ingrained the notion of how powerful one man in that mask was, the sight of tens of thousands of such masks was paralyzing to any troops not already persuaded to liberty.
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