Where Ron Paul Supporters learn history

That silly, sad fromer State Representative sent the following email to me (her words are in blue) about how the Ron Paul people decided to hitch their Candidate to that treasonous traiter Guy Fawkes.  I had a field day with that one…

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Yeah,  V for Vendetta was a fantasy comic book. By the way the character “V” is an “anarchist revolutionary” that wears a Guy Fawkes mask.  I think anarchist revolutionary is a good definition for a Terrorist. Don’t you?

So are you saying that Ron Paul (or his supporters) using the “mask” of Guy Fawkes to raise money are doing so in the name of Anarchy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

YOU could also ask him to rent the move “V” it is similar to Guy Folkes day.

Wag the dog is another I am told.

Nope.  Not even close.  The irony of course is that the movie came out less then a month before Bill Clinton and Monica became an item.  Let’s start a war to distract the people about a Sex Scandal.

Sheesh we’re talking about fairly modern History here.  1997 for Wag the Dog and just last year – 2006 – for V.  Are you really that uninformed or do you just take what the Ron Paul image creators say at face value?

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Maybe this explains the Ron Paul supporters perverted understanding of V as compared to Guy Fawkes having “won” anything.  Note Alan Moore is the author is V.

They are believing a movie adaptation based on a comic book.  That is scary to think these people want to run anything.

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Alan Moore, however, distanced himself from the film, as he has with every screen adaptation of his works to date. He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore’s supposed endorsement of the movie. After reading the script, Moore remarked:

“[The movie] has been “turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country It’s a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives?which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.”

He later adds that if the Wachowskis had wanted to protest what was going on in the United States, then they should have used a political narrative that spoke directly at the USA’s issues, similar to what Moore had done before with Britain. The film changes the original message by arguably having changed “V” into a freedom fighter instead of an anarchist. An interview with producer Joel Silver suggests that the change may not have been conscious; he identifies the V of the graphic novel as a clear-cut “superhero” a masked avenger who pretty much saves the world,” a simplification that goes against Moore’s own statements about V’s role in the story.

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