While our attention was diverted last week by election results, we failed to mention Guy Fawkes Day on November 5th. He was a seventeenth century "protester" in a group trying to unseat the King of England and legend has it that Guy was the "guy" guarding the explosives under the parliament building. So that his harlequin image has become a symbol of "protest" and was adopted by the Occupy Wall Street protesters recently. But with apologies to my friends in the Lone Star State, this image has an uncanny resemblance to the junior Senator from Texas - himself a protester of record.
tjs
No comments:
Post a Comment