Anybody watching coverage of the demonstrations against the banks and financial institutions must have noticed the moustache and pointy bearded masks of the protesters, a stylised depiction of our very own Guy Fawkes.
The same masks were used by hacking groups a few years ago and have now been adopted by the occupy movement. The masks are from the 2006 film V for Vendetta where one is worn by the films hero, a revolutionary who uses Fawkes as a role model in his quest to end the rule of the British Government where he destroys the Houses of Parliament by blowing it up, something Fawkes had planned and failed to do in the 17th Century.
If you were looking for a revolutionary, Guy Fawkes would be one of the best you could pick and to be honest the mask is damn cool so i am glad that the younger generation have got their own identity and not gone for the obvious revolutionaries like Che Guevara.
Because of the link with Guy Fawkes, the Occupy Wall Streeters have designated 5 November as 'Bank Transfer Day', an idea that i mooted last week although they have opted to do it all in one go rather than what i would have thought would be a better approach of doing it bank by bank over time to bring about maximum panic within the banks.
The plan is for bank customers to transfer their money out of large banks, close their accounts and move to smaller banks and credit unions who are not-for-profit financial cooperatives.
The Occupy facebook page here declares: 'Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will always remember the 5th of November!! If the 99 percent removes our funds from the major banking institutions on or by this date, we will send a clear message and give the 1 percent a taste of the fear that we experience every day when we aren’t able to pay for our rent, food, medication, utilities, student loans, etc.'
The website here gives a step by step guide on how to go about things that day.
We know that this way of sticking it to the man works so hopefully, this particular group of Guy Fawkers will be more successful then the original one who ended up being quartered and his body parts sent to different parts of the kingdom. Ouch.
4 comments:
Wow, the Revolution really has started!
Now we'll find out just how far Big Brother will go to retain the status quo that advantages the rich!
The Army will be called in for sure. I hope the protesters are motivated. It won't be pretty but it is necessary.
Capitalism is finished.
I think you may be right David because finally people have woken up to the fact that Capatilism is a crock of shit. The money going to the top and makings its way down the system was always crap because it just stayed there in the bank accounts of the fat cats. Our governments won't do anything because they owe their positions to the banks and financial sector who bankroll them. The whole system needs to be overhauled and i hope this is the start of it. Viva la revolution!
We break the banks. With them gone, nobody will be left to support the government's insatiable desire for deficit spending; and so all of those pesky social programs like food stamps, low-income housing assistance, social security, medicare, and medicaid will be done away with as well.
Finally, we'll live in a world where free markets are allowed to provide for all of our essential needs, from food, to medical care, to retirement insurance. Capitalism's triumph will be complete.
Sounds like a plan.
-Nog
Funny how the only place where the Occupy protestors got physically removed by the cops was that free-thinking liberal utopia of Sydney, Australia...
Post a Comment