Why November 5th?

Why November 5th?

Well, a regular user type fellow on YouTube, Jamsie567, got this idea to use some footage from a fairly recent movie "V for Vendetta". Which really wasn't such a great movie IMHO, but had an important ingredient for success, an easy to remember tag line. "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November" http://youtube.com/watch?v=W5il8uTy92M

The completely unrelated historic event:

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,
’twas his intent
To blow up the King and Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys,
God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!

from
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001590

Which was about how some Catholic radicals planned to blow up the protestant Parliament of England of it's day, in an attempt to bring the down fall of the monarchy. What was notable, the conspiratorial air about the movie with all it's readily usable rhetoric to be found on both sides of the issue.

In typical Web 2.0 viral marketing fashion another regular sort of fellow created a web site http://thisnovember5th.com and the first guy created a link from the video to the web site. The concept there was to get some folks to sign up to a Feed Burner email alert and commit to contributing $100 or more at the official Ron Paul campaign site on November 5th.

Being two months behind on my own house payment, with quite fully maxed out credit cards, I couldn't go the full amount, but I did my own fair share of $50.00 since they could not yet take my check by phone, only personal non-business credit cards. I told the nice guy who answered the phone, Oh dear, that's an oversight. Make a note. Thanks, I'll go figure something out.

In the meanwhile the donation meter at 12:00 Midnight Nov 5th has hit $4 Million dollars, but the funny thing about it was the almost exactly straight line characteristic to it for 16 hours continuously since about 8:00 in the morning all the way up to Midnight.
http://ronpaulgraphs.com/nov_5_extended_total.html
http://paulcash.slact.net/

Rumor has it, that this could be due to a backlog at the credit card processors for the campaign. Time will tell. $4 Million dollars is still more than any other Republican candidate has ever raised online in a single day, the previous record being $3.1 Million for Mitt Romney. We will have to wait and see what the complete total comes to. Certainly news worthy, The New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, Yahoo, ABC News reports all have carried various spin control pieces on the history making event. So much for the overhyped make believe Spam bot, Botnet idea "news" story. This should hopefully kill that lame spin dead in it's tracks.

Viva La R3VOLution!

Steve