New York City: No new U.S. war against Syria and Iraq! Times Square, September 12, 2014.
A remix of Ministry’s classic song “NWO” from their album “Rantology”. In some ways I like it better than the original. In some ways.
And even though Bush is not president anymore, that hope and change we were promised seems to be nowhere to be found.
I ran Cuba from the 6th floor of the US embassy. All the Cubans had to do was grow sugar and shut up.
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Earl T. Smith, US Ambassador to Cuba. Capitalist pig, imperialist stooge, greedy bastard, racist asshole. And we wonder why they hate us so damn bad. |
Power to the People on the dance floor!
Techno/Dance version of the national anthem of the Soviet Union!
Fascists and imperialist hate dancing! So smash fascism with you dance steps!
Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the slogans and we will turn them into reality. Sing the battle hymns and we will take them up where you left off. Not one not ten not ten thousand not a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. Make no mistake of it we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility and security in decency in peace. You plan the wars you masters of men plans the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.
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| — | “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo |
Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let’s go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose kind of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing anybody they pleased whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can’t rob and you take away some of his liberty. You’ve got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It’s a word like house or table or any other word. Only it’s a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let’s fight for liberty and he can’t show you liberty. He can’t prove the thing he’s talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.
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| — | Dalton Trumbo, “Johnny Got His Gun” |
