Posted on 05/19/2006 11:14:57 AM PDT by weegee
Ahh yes, the standard leftist bilge that dissent isn't allowed in this country. Actually that's what they really wish was the case, so they can think of themselves as dissidents, like the real ones that were in the old Soviet empire, or like the 60s protesters.
This article is hilarious!
Hip Hop Protest Music!!
We be overcoming,
We be overcoming
We be overcoming some day
Yo! Deep in my heart
I does believe
The ladies are all ho’s and stuff
But Bush is a moron
We’ll walk hand in hand
And then we’ll pop a cap
Into any M****F****
Who doesn’t dig my rap!
"...you're unpatriotic — which is ridiculous, because this country was founded on dissent."
The founders of this country WERE unpatriotic to England. They dissented against the crown and knew that they faced charges of treason. Also, our independence was declared in 1776 but we continued to fight against the British for decades.
Those who cheer on the foreign "insurgents" (jihadists) fighting the US AND the Iraqis in Iraq ARE antiAmerican.
Word!
The top guy can step down but they just demonize another figure in the party. Reagan became 12 years of Reagan-Bush. Boo Newt! The Gingrinch Who Stole Christmas. Boo DeLay and Frist...
Where were all the protesters when Klinton was bombing Yugoslavia?
Where have all the protest songs gone?
The answer my friend, lies blowin' in the wind. The answer lies blowin' in the wind.
You certainly got that right!!
"I was exceptionally talented at holding a fist in the air and saying the same phrase monotonously over and over again, but pepper spray hurts like a motherf-----,"
OH man, the lefties are hilarious!
I'm still waiting to hear Neil Young's songs of protest against the way Saddam Hussien treated the Kurds and Shiites during his time in power...I guess that makes me against freedom of speech.
This hubub over "protest songs" is tiresome. They're not protest songs, they're political songs from the artists point of view. They should be referred to as such.
As for Tom Morello, I can't stand his politics, but he is one hell of a musician.
The conclusions about the "State of the Union" drawn in the opening paragraphs are 'not' to be questioned.
Why doesn't the writer ask where are the cajun or swamp pop songs that should be coming out of Louisiana targeting Nagin and Blanco for their mishandling of the Katrina disaster? Their elected officials completely failed them but everything is Bush's fault and singers should be slamming 'him'.
Yeah, lyrics notwithstanding, I've always dug the incendiary sound of Morello and RATM.
The new Pearl Jam CD kicks ass as well.
The Stray Cats - Storm The Embassy
Fifteen man taken captive in a hostile foreign land
Scorchin' sun beaming down onto miles and miles of sand
A mideast country being ruled
By a man who thinks it's fun
To hold our people in return
For a sjah that's on the run
I think it's funny
Freedom takes money
It's a heartache and it's hard luck
Well that's tough shit
Man it's no fun
Storm the Iranian embassy
Before they start shootin' down you and me
Scourge of suits in control
Of the diplomaticness
While the nations of the world
Look on and they care less
The Soviet Union won't agree
To an economic plan
And then they laugh and march their troops into Afghanistan
Orders from Moscow
Invade Teheran now
It's a heartache and it's hard luck
Well that's tough shit
Man it's no fun
Storm the Iranian embassy
Before they start shootin' at you and me
A nation worries and reads the papers
Hoping that no-one has died
Hearin' rumours that the hostages
Will soon be tried as spies
Demonstrations on the street
Saying that the end is near
The man from New York Times on vacation
Wants to know what happened here
Agressive acts now
We want the best now
Fifteen moms crying
Is my son dying ?
It's a heartache and it's hard luck
Well that's tough shit
Man it's no fun
Storm the Iranian embassy
Before they start shootin' at you and me
The ants are my friends
and they're blowing in the wind...
the ants are blowin' in the wind.
They have a rebellious look to go along with their namesake. LOL.
Third one from the left looks like a younger version of the lead singer for "Jane's Addiction".
Posers. Iggy and Johnny Rotten are the only legit punks.
"Posers. Iggy and Johnny Rotten are the only legit punks."
Yep. These nancy-boys are carefully manufactured, right down to their stunning coiffs and "anti-social" name which I'm sure tested well among 13-17 year-old middle-class white males.
People on the street now
Faces long and grim
Souls are feeling heavy
And faith is growing thin
Fears are getting stronger
You can Feel them on the rise
Hopelessness got some by the throat you can see it in their eyes
I said how come
How come
Everybody on a shoestring
Everybody in a hole
Everybody crossing their fingers and toes
Government man spin his politics till he got you pinned
Everybody trying to reach out to each other
But they don't know where to begin
I said how come I can't tell
the free world from living hell
I said how come
How come all I see
is a child of god in misery
I said how come the pistol now as profit
The bullet some kind of lord and king
But pain is the only promise that this so called savior is going to bring
Love can be a liar
And justice can be a thief
And freedom can be an empty cup from which everybody want to drink
I said how come I can't tell
the free world from living hell
I said how come
How come all i see
is a child of god in misery
I said how come
Its just man killing man
Killing man
Killing man
Killing man
Killing man
I don't understand
Its just man killing man
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