FTA: One was in the left hand of 32-year-old Jason J. Cross - right under a protest sign. He had 20 more stashed in his tent, to be sold at $5 apiece.
"I had 10 here yesterday, and I sold out!" he said.
Cross said he'd purchased 100 of the Chinese-made masks online.

And he's protesting against capitalism?

/Unless he's selling them at cost of course.....

A modest proposal?

But history books didn't lead to the mask's popularity: A nearly 30-year-old graphic novel and a five-year-old movie did.

Huh. And here I thought it was a faceless stick figure guy with terrible luck and a garbage can.

People who wear masks cannot be trusted

TravisBickle62: People who wear masks cannot be trusted

You seem a decent fellow... I hate to kill you.

TravisBickle62: People who wear masks cannot be trusted

Which is why you hide in your house with the lights off during halloween?

Ishkur: Guy Fawkes was a religious nutjob who tried to overthrow the English monarchy and establish a tyrannic Catholic theocracy. He wasn't fighting injustice like some dashing revolutionary, he was a fundamentalist terrorist who sought power and control and fark everyone else. Remember that, as you celebrate this momentous occasion.

But now he's a romantic revolutionary like Che Guevara, and I blame /b/, Alan Moore, and historically illiterate anarchist dickheads everywhere.

If it's one thing the OWS doesn't know, it's history.

The thing is, those masks are only available on the WB studios online shop (I think) so unless they handmake one, they're supporting a huge business, which they're supposed to be against.

Ishkur: He wasn't fighting injustice like some dashing revolutionary, he was a fundamentalist terrorist who sought power and control and fark everyone else

So he was a Republican?

Farking /b/tards.

And yet the article doesn't mention 4chan at all.

Remember remember how we identified the losers of society

Guy Fawkes was a freakin terrorist.

Just like that damned farm boy and his droids.
Consorted with other known terrorists, namely Generals Kenobi and Yoda. He also dealt with the known criminals Han Solo and Chewbacca. Plus he conspired with known traitor and terrorist mastermind former Senator Leia Organa.


and this is what the kids hold up as heroes these days!

Shouldn't this have been posted tomorrow?

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Flint Ironstag:
And he's protesting against capitalism?

no
maybe you should find out what OWS is, before you reply

TravisBickle62: People who wear masks cannot be trusted



Agreed!

I thought the popularity of the masks was due to the protests against $cientology. If their identities were to be discovered, the CO$ would harass, sue, or even kill them. Anonymous needed to conceal their identities, and the Guy Fawkes masks were easier/cooler/lulzier than the green face hood.

/Guy Fawkes was a terrorist, and not worthy of the fame he gets. However, he was the first person to enter parliament with honest intentions, a well thought out plan, and the means to carry it out. (I probably messed up that quote).

Ishkur: Guy Fawkes was a religious nutjob who tried to overthrow the English monarchy and establish a tyrannic Catholic theocracy. He wasn't fighting injustice like some dashing revolutionary, he was a fundamentalist terrorist who sought power and control and fark everyone else. Remember that, as you celebrate this momentous occasion.

But now he's a romantic revolutionary like Che Guevara, and I blame /b/, Alan Moore, and historically illiterate anarchist dickheads everywhere.

Bears Repeating.

The fact that there are Brits wearing the mask is baffling, they should know better; don't they remember what they learnt in history class?

Guy Fawkes was a religious visionary who tried to overthrow the English monarchy and redeem a nation from heresy. He was fighting injustice like some dashing revolutionary. He was a fundamentally against those who sought power and control and who fark everyone else. Remember that and celebrate this momentous occasion.

But now he's reviled by propagandists, and I blame Republicans, Grover Norquist, and historically illiterate Ishkur.

mikieb: Guy Fawkes was a terrorist, and not worthy of the fame he gets. However, he was the first person to enter parliament with honest intentions, a well thought out plan, and the means to carry it out./i>

Guy got caught

Ishkur: Guy Fawkes was a religious nutjob who tried to overthrow the English monarchy and establish a tyrannic Catholic theocracy. He wasn't fighting injustice like some dashing revolutionary, he was a fundamentalist terrorist who sought power and control and fark everyone else. Remember that, as you celebrate this momentous occasion.

But now he's a romantic revolutionary like Che Guevara, and I blame /b/, Alan Moore, and historically illiterate anarchist dickheads everywhere.

Wow... tell us how you *really* feel.

reillan: TravisBickle62: People who wear masks cannot be trusted

You seem a decent fellow... I hate to kill you.

You seem a decent fellow...I hate to die

I liked the movie, V for Vendetta. Was such an interesting documentary about the G.W. Bush dictatorship and FoxNews(propaganda branch of the Bush government).

Guy Farks?

I'm a total retard so I think that OWS is protesting all corporations. Anything they own that they didn't hand make is proof of their hypocrisy

capitulating fromage masticating simian: mikieb: Guy Fawkes was a terrorist, and not worthy of the fame he gets. However, he was the first person to enter parliament with honest intentions, a well thought out plan, and the means to carry it out./i>

Guy got caught

I know, but I was trying to quote an age old saying about him and the nature of politics. I wouldn't say his intentions were honest, either.

Flint Ironstag: FTA: One was in the left hand of 32-year-old Jason J. Cross - right under a protest sign. He had 20 more stashed in his tent, to be sold at $5 apiece.
"I had 10 here yesterday, and I sold out!" he said.
Cross said he'd purchased 100 of the Chinese-made masks online.

And he's protesting against capitalism?

/Unless he's selling them at cost of course.....

Too big to fail banks don't really represent true capitalism, but rather are a corruption of the system. That is what most of the protesters are up in arms about, although I'm sure there probably are at least a few socialists as part of the group. Overall they are just tired of Wall Street pocketing the profits and socialising the losses.

hailin: This is stupid! I much prefer the masks to be used by Anonymous.

That's just as lame.

"Gradually over the centuries, the meaning of Guy Fawkes has dramatically changed," said Call. "The reputation of Guy Fawkes has been recuperated.

Utter codswallop. Millions of Brits will be out tomorrow night burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes.

Sorry OWS, Scientologist protestors used that mask years ago. Nice rip-off though.

capitulating fromage masticating simian: mikieb: Guy Fawkes was a terrorist, and not worthy of the fame he gets. However, he was the first person to enter parliament with honest intentions, a well thought out plan, and the means to carry it out.

Guy got caught

Well thought out != perfect. Even an excellent plan can fail, for any number of reasons. Fawkes's was rather less than excellent. but I'll give him "well-thought-out."

Some used Fawkes as a symbol for putting limits on state power. Others held him up as a freedom fighter.

Yikes this is some awful journalism. If he had actually researched this don't you think he'd have a little more to say about it?



c.f. Outfoxed "Some say" = "I made this up"

capitulating fromage masticating simian: The fact that there are Brits wearing the mask is baffling, they should know better; don't they remember what they learnt in history class?

They probably don't teach any more how Guy Fawkes was a Papist terrorist who wanted to create instability so the Spanish could set up a puppet king. In the name of sensitivity to the choir-boy molesters Catholics.