Pumpkins for Peace: New Halloween Cards Hit Cyberspace, Iraq War -- Message: “War is a Lot Scarier than Halloween”
With the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes Day on Nov. 5th, a new website stumps for observing Peace Week from Nov. 5th to Veterans Day on Nov. 11th. It offers greeting cards with peace themes for Halloween, All Saints, Guy Fawkes, Veterans Day and Peace Week, as well as serious material - Guy Fawkes was actually lured into a government plot to create a war pretext, and parallels are drawn to the lies about WMD that got the US into the Iraq war.
(PRWEB) November 1, 2005 -- E-greetings fans are being treated to a new trick this Halloween: they can personalize an online Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day, or Veterans Day e-greeting card at www.peaceweek.net.
“This is quick, fun and for everyone who is worried about the war,” says Peace Week promoter John Leonard. “Polls show most Americans and Britons agree the Iraq war was a mistake.”
"Guy was Faux, not Fox."
Then on Saturday, Nov. 5th, comes the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes Day, a big holiday in Britain, and cross between July 4th and Halloween.
400 years, but it's still news to most Brits that they got the wrong guy when they hanged Guy Fawkes for the Gunpowder Plot. The real "fox" was not Fawkes but the Lord Chancellor, who lured Guy and his gaggle of foolish "fowls" to try to blow up Parliament - and provoke the war on Spain which the power behind the throne wanted.
The lesson is as up-to-date as can be, with the late lies about WMD that got both the US and the UK into Iraq.
So the message at the www.peaceweek.net site is: we need to catch on to the old trick of fake terrorism to avoid even more dangerous wars. To help remind us, supporters can sign a petition to observe Peace Week every Nov. 5th to Nov. 11th - Britain's Guy Fawkes Day to America's Veterans Day.
The website includes a Media Center for adding events to the calendar, posting press releases, and background about authors available for interviews on such topics as:
Peace Week - promoter and publisher John Leonard
Guy Fawkes, Veterans Day history: Bush Sr. biographer and intelligence expert Webster G. Tarpley (available until Nov. 9th)
WMD, Plame case: Bush Jr. biographer and prosecutor William J. Cox.
Motto: " To know more about war means no more wars."
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