I knew that the Occupy Wall Street protests were the work of terrorists. From the very beginning I felt that this movement was just another branch of the terrorist attack against America and its freedom and prosperity. Why else would both the Islamic Terrorists and the Anarchist Terrorists both target Wall Street? I believe that Al Queda and the OWS supporters are one and the same.
Just look at the 'mask' which many of these terrorists wear... The Guy Fawkes mask is the mask which most of the OWS terrorists wear. Why? Because Guy Fawkes was a terrorist who bombed the Parliment building in England in the 1600s. Of course these modern terrorists want to romanticize their terrorist activity, thus they attempt to claim that they are just like Guy Fawkes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_fawkes
Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the drawing and quartering that followed.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g21HvAQXPXiKh4wExkMzdrjzG4FQ?docId=d6e32ff3cef74bc4b5229cb76e316969'Vendetta' mask becomes symbol of Occupy protests
By TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press – 11 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you'll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed-mouth smile and mysterious eyes.
The mask is a stylized version of Guy Fawkes, an Englishman who tried to bomb the British Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605.
"They're very meaningful masks," said Alexandra Ricciardelli, who was rolling cigarettes on a table outside her tent in New York's Zuccotti Park two days before the anniversary of Fawkes' failed bombing attempt.
"It's not about bombing anything; it's about being anonymous — and peaceful."
To the 20-year-old from Keyport, N.J., the Fawkes mask "is about being against The Man — the power that keeps you down."
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.
"V for Vendetta," the comic-based movie whose violent, anarchist antihero fashions himself a modern Guy Fawkes and rebels against a fascist government has become a touchstone for young protesters in mostly western countries. While Warner Brothers holds the licensing rights to the Guy Fawkes mask, several protesters said they were using foreign-made copies to circumvent the corporation.
Yet whether the inspiration is the comic, the movie or the historical figure, the imagery — co-opted today by everyone from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hacker group Anonymous — carries stronger connotations than some of the Occupy protesters seem to understand.
While Fawkes' image has been romanticized over the past 400 years, he was a criminal who tried to blow up a government building. It would be hard to imagine Americans one day wearing Timothy McVeigh masks to protest the government or corporate greed.
Lewis Call, an assistant history professor at California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, said the masked protesters are adopting a powerful symbol that has shifted meaning through the centuries.
"You can seize hold of it for any political purpose you want," he said. "That's the real power of it."
Fawkes was a Catholic insurrectionist executed for the bombing attempt. In the years immediately following his execution, Nov. 5 was England's official celebration for defeating Fawkes, said Call, who has written about the nexus of Fawkes, "V for Vendetta" and modern-day protests.
Call said over the next three centuries, people in England started using Fawkes' image in different ways. Some used Fawkes as a symbol for putting limits on state power. Others held him up as a freedom fighter.
Then came the comic book, a nihilistic story set in a futuristic England. And the movie. People began thinking of him as a libertarian or even anarchist hero.
"Gradually over the centuries, the meaning of Guy Fawkes has dramatically changed," said Call. "The reputation of Guy Fawkes has been recuperated. Before he was originally seen as a terrorist trying to destroy England. Now he's seen more as a freedom fighter, a fighter for individual liberty against an oppressive regime. The political meaning of that figure has transformed."
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