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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And, morello isn’t really that great a guitar player. But, he is an outstanding POS. He should try on a mask. So many “hip”-o-crits, so little time. Maybe hugo chavez has a cabinet post for him and sean boy too. Is it guilt that makes these tools so supportive of lefty causes?
Share the lead.
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Talk about what?.... : )
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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.
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Saw what you are talking about.
But also saw the libertarian “Swiss” method working.
The people on the streets did nothing.
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.
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The uprising is a ploy.
The real uprising were all the assasinations done by V. For by cutting the head of the government off, the troops had no leadership and therefore freedom ensued.
That is the Swiss method.
If you focus on the uprising and think of it as the power resisting force in the film you are sadly mistaken, as is OWS.
Read my posts at 26 and 27
I’m not sure I catch your drift. The people did nothing, yes, but what does that demonstrate? They didn’t lift a finger to oppose their tyrants, they didn’t commit any of the acts of terrorism/freedom fighting, they didn’t build or plant the big bomb to blow up Parliament.
All I saw them do was spray paint a few V signs, and show up for the fireworks show. In the real world, they would have all been mowed down with machine guns or just clubbed into submission, Tianenmen Square-style. It was a leftie fantasy of revolution, where they could keep their pacifist ways, and let someone else do the dirty work for them.
I’ve got to pick up the graphic novel one of these days. I have a first run copy of the first issue that I found at a country flea market a couple decades ago, but I never got around to picking up the rest of them.
You are right, they would have been killed. The real message of the film is that removing the powerful leads to freedom not running in the streets. IE
The real uprising were all the assasinations done by V. For by cutting the head of the government off, the troops had no leadership and therefore freedom ensued.
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That is why the fillm is so powerful.
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