Remember, Remember, the 5th of November

Good evening.

Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because 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. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? 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 systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, 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. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to copyright authorities. They promised you money, they promised you welth, and all they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. The past four weeks, I destroyed your websites, to remind the world of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives.

So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me on the fifth of November, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot. 

Dear fellow anons:

The Internet is in danger. Governments of all the world are already firing their anti-P2P measures, they are trying to start closing the doors of the wide open source of knowledge and exchange of information that we've made the Internet became. But we can't let them win at the first round. First they steal our P2P, then they steal Wikileaks, then they gradually start curtailing the freedom of information we've got to achieve, and turn the probably most revolutionary invention of the last thousand years into a tool for their own purposes. But we can't let them win. We won't give them our P2P, we won't give them our freedom. The Internet is ours, not theirs. And that's what we have to make them remember.. and never forget.

Our intention is to organize for the next November 5th a series of pacific demonstrations and public actions around the world against censorship and attempts from government entities to control the Internet.

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