I was exchanging emails with another Brother (COL Steve Yevich, MD) this morning about the Anon video. I learned something about Guy Fawkes from Steve that I did not know and I thought I would share it here.
From Steve's email:
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For those of you who don't know, the guy in the video was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. It's so funny how the whole Fawkes story has been distorted by romantic writers into incorrectly making him into some kind of hero and representative of Truth. He was a radical MILITANT anarchist Catholic (sound like a parallel with Muslim fundamentalists?) in the 16th century, who left England to fight with Catholic Spain against Protestants.
He then conspired to kill the Protestant King of England in order to bring back Catholicism to England, but was caught and executed (almost -- he killed himself before the hanging)! Talk about an appropriate symbol demonstrating religion-motivated hatred!
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Also the colloquial term "guy" or "guys" ("useguys" if you you're from South Philly) was a derogatory term and has since lost its original meaning.
Interesting tidbit Huh?
