Guy Fawkes goes global

[eighthobstruction]

....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23368671

[amateur51]

I think you know that you're having an effect when the Catholic hierarchy insists on banning the wearing of your masks but instead offers this to the faithful ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23234748

[Flosshilde]

Indeed - can't have hostile attitudes, can we? Who knows where that will lead to?

(I wonder if the blood was removed before or after he died? Either way it demonstrates remarkable foresight)

[Richard Tarleton]

...offers this to the faithful ...

Nothing changes

Ne was ther swich another pardoner,
For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer,
Which that, he seyde, was oure lady veyl;
He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl
That Seïnt Peter hadde whan that he wente
Upon the see til Jhesu Crist hym hente.
He hadde a croys of latoun ful of stones,
And in a glas he hadde pigges bones.
But with thise relikes, whan that he fond
A poure person dwellynge upon lond,
Upon a day he gat hym moore moneye
Than that the person gat in monthes tweye......

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Portrait of the Pardoner in the Prologue)

[scottycelt]

I think you know that you're having an effect when the Catholic hierarchy insists on banning the wearing of your masks but instead offers this to the faithful ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23234748

Get your facts right, amsey. It is all there in the original link. You really should have read it before posting. And human relics are not really that scary, you know. There must be quite a few around and it would appear that even secularists are not too sniffy about these things, or even saints, God forbid!

http://www.prairie.org/humanities-resources/detours/lincoln-039-s-locks-relics-secular-saint

As for the masks themseves these were banned by the secular state's security services not by 'the Catholic hierarchy' as you quite erroneously stated. The masked protests were directed, of course, against the Brazilian government not the Pope who, no doubt most infuriatingly for Amsey 'n' Flossie, was accompanied by millions of the enthusiastic faithful on Copacabana beach where love of anything or anyone Argentinian has reportedly not been previously particularly apparent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23480707

Pretty impressive turnout, eh ... ?

And, remember, Guy Fawkes was one of us in any case, so the 'Catholic hierarchy' were probably just as annoyed about the banning of the masks as you.

[Nick Armstrong]

They're only indirectly to do with G Fawkes Esq., those masks though, aren't they - the hero of the film 'V for Vendetta' used that mask and it was then adopted by the 'hacker-activist' group ANONYMOUS... That's the 'anti-establishment protest' meaning, primarily.