I read your review of 'V for Vendetta' on Wingtv.net which you ended with a quote from the movie: Quote: "Behind this mask there is more than flesh. Behind this mask there are ideas, and ideas are bulletproof."

At the end of the movie all the 'freedom lovers' are shown wearing 'V' masks that are supposed to represent the idea of freedom. Be that as it may, in reality, in all of man's history freedom has never been attained by ideas alone. Ideas accompanied by guns have had a much better rate of success. Even 'V' himself could accomplish nothing wearing a mask alone - he had a train full of dynamite to attain his goals. The American Revolution was not won by ideas alone as spelled out in the Declaration of Independence and other documents. Without guns to support those ideas, those documents would have perished long ago, along with their writers. Ideas and guns can bring enslavement as witnessed in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and other parts of the world; and this seems to be the rule rather the exception. Those with the guns force their ideas upon those without the guns. The American Revolution was unique in that freedom was shared across the board with all citizens, at least in theory.

So to believe without questioning that ideas are 'bulletproof' is foolhardy. The paradox is that in human terms freedom has to be enforced just as slavery has to be enforced. And ironically the enforcement tool employed in both cases is a gun. So those who might have been misled by the propaganda of this movie: beware that the mask of ideas alone will not make you bulletproof. The ones wearing the masks still faced an awful big army with awful big guns, and the only thing that stopped them from pulling the triggers was a temporary break in the chain of command. In the real world the chain of command has never been broken, and there has never been a shortage of 'trigger pullers'. Just read the history of the 20th century and tell me that it ain't so. If freedom has to be enforced in human terms alone it cannot be done with mere ideas. Knowledge alone is not power; it never has been in history, nor will it be now. So if you believe that a 'revolutionary' such as 'V' is the answer, then be ready to arm yourself with more than just ideas. Will you be successful? If I was a betting man I would say that there is a better chance of hell freezing over than for such a revolution to be successful --- the puny six shooters that most people have access to will never match the NWO’s firepower. Most Iraqis were armed, and the Afghanis even more so; and we should take our cue from them as to what our chances of success might be were we to embark on such a revolutionary course.

Does that mean there is no answer? I myself put no faith merely in man's ideas, nor will I ever pick up a gun; nor will I roll over and play dead. I know that the answer does not lie in man; but an answer exists, of that there is no doubt, at least not in my mind.

Movies made in Hollywood are very propagandistic, but they do have a predictive element. In many cases they predict what the future holds. What 'V' predicts is not to be found in its phony message of freedom, but rather that which is hidden between the frames - the coming destruction of the USA through pandemics, civil war, nuclear war, and other such man-made and "natural" disasters. So do not buy the propaganda that "ideas are bulletproof". The students in Tiananmen Square would beg to differ. And that is the last word on 'V for Vendetta.'