OWS Protesters Think Guy Fawkes was Awesome
Which is why they wear the Guy Fawkes masks, despite most of them thinking its a reference to a movie V for Vendetta. And on this Guy Fawkes day, the 5th of November, which is still celebrated in Britain with bonfires and fireworks, I think it may be appropriate to remind Occupy Wall Street protesters about who the real Guy Fawkes was-
Guy Fawkes was a Catholic who, along with other Catholics, tried to overthrow the government of King James the 1st, a protestant. He and his co-conspirators were trying to stuff loads of gunpowder into a hole beneath Parliament in an attempt to murder Lords and citizens who were to attend Parliament. Guy Fawkes was caught red-handed guarding the gunpowder. The funny part is that someone snitched on him.
He was sentenced to death and was drawn and quartered after he was put to the scaffold for hanging.
From Wikipedia:
The Attorney General Sir Edward Coke told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground. They were to be “put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both”. Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become “prey for the fowls of the air”
I’m pretty certain he considered himself, while alive, to be part of the 99%- and he thought he was smarter than everyone else. But he failed spectacularly- so spectacularly that Britain celebrates his miserable failure with street bonfires and childrens’ chants:
Remember, Remember
the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason, and plot,
I see no reason
why gunpowder treason,
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,he’s intent,
To blow up the Houses
of Parliament,
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow.
By God’s providence he was catched,With a black lantern and
a burning match
Hollar, Hollar boys,
ring the bells ring!
Hollar, Hollar boys,
God save the King!
I have no doubt that the OWS fools will fail just as miserably as Guy Fawkes did. So remember, remember, the 5th of November.
