What on Earth does Guy Fawkes day have to do with American politics? Does one American in a thousand know who he was? This just seems to be a gratutitous pseudo-linking of Paul with a violent radical’s name.
The American version of Guy Fawkes Day was “Pope Day,” celebrated in colonial-era Boston. Every November 5, two mobs, one from the north side of town and one from the south side, would meet in the center of Boston, each mob carrying a dummy of the pope. Then they started brawling, with stones and clubs widely used, and victory would go to the mob which captured or destroyed the other mob’s “pope”! The last celebration took place in 1764, and then Samuel Adams came along and decided that the mobs of Boston would be put to better use starting the American Revolution, instead of busting each others’ heads on Pope Days. Anybody suppose Ron Paul is trying to bring back that?
(sarc)"Playing along to get along" and "working within the system" has really worked well for us hasn't it?(/sarc)
I just checked the Constitution. Fawkes was not mentioned in it, therefor he doesn't exist.