After police banned them from playing a political rally in Minnesota yesterday, Rage Against the Machine whipped out the loudspeaker and went a cappella.
The band’s original plan was to play an impromptu gig at left-wing rally Ripple Effect. Sadly, the police had other ideas, leaving Zack de la Rocha to address some angry fans.
“Rage Against the Machine is a band that has never, ever advocated violence,” he, er, rages. “We’ve always advocated a direct opposition to unjust wars like the one started by John McCain and the Republicans and Bush and all of them.”
He continues: “Why the F@#% are these cops so afraid of us? Are they afraid of us?”
I showed this video to our C&L team and BillW could not say enough how much he loved it. It’s terrible to me that the larger story of how the police have acted — or have been directed to act — has gone mostly unreported in the traditional media, becaue it really does exemplify the tenuous grasp on basic civil rights that most Republicans seem to possess
Ha ha, i liked it when De la Rocha said on Fox News that Bush & Friends should be hung and shot. Couldnt agree more, Fox News tried to make De La Rocha look like the bad guy. I mean didnt they hang Saddam, fucking hypocrites. At least Saddam killed people for his a psycho reasons, Bush had no reason at all.
Bush did it for greed and revenge. Pretty simple. Saddam tried to kill elder bush, and it’s the bush motto to just be a prime example of what greedy republicans are.
When did he try to kill GHW Bush? As I recall, we gave him all the funding they wanted to fight Iran, post Shah. And we didn’t do shit else in Iraq until Saddam decided that Kuwait looked tasty.
Ha ha, i liked it when De la Rocha said on Fox News that Bush & Friends should be hung and shot. Couldnt agree more, Fox News tried to make De La Rocha look like the bad guy. I mean didnt they hang Saddam, fucking hypocrites. At least Saddam killed people for his a psycho reasons, Bush had no reason at all.
When did this happen? is there a you tube of it?
Second.
Who knows when or If saddam even tried to kill papa bush. I’ve heard that statement too but i don’t know who first reported it or where it came from.
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grmpysmrf
uhm way to protest… in the protest zone… about a mile or so away from the people they were protesting… john stewart did a good bit on this topic friday on the daily show
When did he try to kill GHW Bush? As I recall, we gave him all the funding they wanted to fight Iran, post Shah. And we didn’t do shit else in Iraq until Saddam decided that Kuwait looked tasty.
I guess during the gulf war? Dubya’s the one who said it in one of his press conferences a few years back. Probably a little after 9/11.
Dubya’s the one who said it in one of his press conferences a few years back. Probably a little after 9/11.
Oh yeah!! When he smirked and leaned his arm on the podium and said “After all this was a guy who tried to kill my dad!”
I just thought it was reported before that because he said that with such “everyone knows that” type of tone
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[reply]Ha ha, i liked it when De la Rocha said on Fox News that Bush & Friends should be hung and shot. Couldnt agree more, Fox News tried to make De La Rocha look like the bad guy. I mean didnt they hang Saddam, fucking hypocrites. At least Saddam killed people for his a psycho reasons, Bush had no reason at all.
When did this happen? is there a you tube of it?
I dont think Zacho was actually on Fox News. He just responded to what they said about him. Fuck Fox Fucking News!