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In reply to the discussion: Why do so many people idolize V for vendetta's anarchy? It is not democratic to blow up buildings [View all]Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. You mean "Vendetta".
But yes, in a democracy where people get to pick their President every 4 years and Congress every 2 years in a peaceful non-violent manner, there is no justification for blowing stuff up just because the people didn't choose the way you wanted.
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Why do so many people idolize V for vendetta's anarchy? It is not democratic to blow up buildings [View all]
graham4anything
Jan 2013
OP
Reread the Declaration of Independence. Our country was founded on treason and anarchy.
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#6
Bringing up the "debates" to provide evidence of legitimacy is indicative of missing the point
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#78
Sorry to be the one to break it to you. By-the-way look up the definition of
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#94
Exactly--the colonists really did try to reason with the crown. King George put his boot up their
MADem
Jan 2013
#24
That's something of a simplification. Both sides misunderstood what the other was aiming at....
Moonwalk
Jan 2013
#103
There were plenty of radicals at the time of the American Revolution. They didn't win the debate
Leopolds Ghost
Jan 2013
#85
The colonists were British subjects and even some of the representatives at the Continental Congress
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#57
I proudly wear my avitar to remember the actual good that was done in America.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#26
Wasn't good to be anyone in the way of V who was in Big Ben at the time
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#110
so it's his fault that the cops will shoot somebody who is not threatening them?
hfojvt
Jan 2013
#18
V knew perfectly well the cops were looking for a guy in a black cloak and a Guy Fawkes mask.
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#68
I think the guy ordering the troops to stand down was likely following protocol
Hippo_Tron
Jan 2013
#97
why does he seem like a villain? he was an ordinary soldier, & as such, unlikely to have been
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#115
Because there are a hell of a lot of angry people on both sides of the political spectrum.
randome
Jan 2013
#10
except for one chemistry grad student and a few unimportant janitors you are saying???
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#25
BTW, there's a pretty good discussion in the Socialist Progressives group.......
socialist_n_TN
Jan 2013
#51
Precisely the opposite problem. What the ancient Greeks called democracy is now labeled anarchy
Leopolds Ghost
Jan 2013
#90
We don't live in ancient greece though. And the founders did not set up one person/one vote
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#108
I've never seen the movie or read the book, but I'm tired of seeing those masks everywhere n/t
arcane1
Jan 2013
#53
Immediate gratification, instead of disciplined and work-wo/manly commitment to change of the
patrice
Jan 2013
#63
Using violence against tyranny is justified. Using violence against a democracy isn't.
redgreenandblue
Jan 2013
#89
sheesh, complain, complain, yet you are free/open to write on a board google searched worldwide
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#121
Don't vote for Jeb Bush and it never will. Don't vote 3rd party and it never will.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#124
Here's some interesting Guy Fawkes Day poems from the era before Guy Fawkes became "safe"
Leopolds Ghost
Jan 2013
#104