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?
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!
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.
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.