V is for Violence

 Ron Capshaw has written an excellent piece about the irony of wearing a Guy Fawkes mask to an #Occupy rally. Here's a snippet:

 "Clearly it is this image–not the target of the explosion, but the fact that something is blowing up–that has the protesters donning the mask. They, too, want to detonate a building, preferably one on Wall Street. V, in entrancing slow motion, skewers cops; they too are begging for the chance to emulate this.

But there the resemblances end.

V and Fawkes were against the government as a whole, not just its financial manifestations. The protesters seek the re-election of their President and want the government to use force against the business community. Indeed, if there is any link between them and the film, it is how they resemble the fascists. The regime of V came into power because of a violent extremist street gang specializing in blaming Jewish capitalists; what better definition of the OWS movement than this?"