Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of November: Guy Fawkes Day

 

(Update: Ron Paul Raises $3.68 Million on Guy Fawkes Day.)

Cory Doctorow’s Boing Boing offers this “logo-revision from an anonymous reader” as commentary on AT&T’s “active role in helping the NSA break the law by wiretapping the whole Internet”. Happy Guy Fawkes Day.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Here’s an awesome video from The BBC’s Nick Knowles about Guy Fawkes, The Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Lastly, a great scene from that geat movie, “V For Vendetta”, complete with the infamous “Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of November” recitation:

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