V for Vendetta

Remember, remember
The 5th of November
The gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot

The idea of a man
But what of the man?I know his name was Guy Fawkes......and I know in 1605, he attemptedto blow up the Houses of Parliament.But who was he really?What was he like?We are told to remember the idea and not the man.Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten.But 400 years later...an idea can still change the world.I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas.I've seen people kill in the name of them and die defending them.But you cannot kiss an idea cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain.They do not love.And it is not an idea that I miss.It is a man.
A man that made me remember the 5th of November.A man that I will never forget.


The V mask
Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. But on this most auspicious of nights permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet to suggest the character
of this dramatis persona.
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim
and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such. Shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage
veers most verbose.

The word
While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation.....words will always retain their power.Words offer the means to meaning and, for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.
Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression.And where once you had the freedom to object to think and speak as you saw fit you now have censors and surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting submission.
But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror.I know why you did it.I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease.There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.ear got the best of you.