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Against the War On Terror. Against War AND Terror.
"Paid Vacation" - 1980
I hope you're having fun.
Where's your uniform?
Where's your gun?
Better rub up that suntan lotion
'Cause you'll be fighting in the hot sun.
It's not..Vietnam,
Just another oil company scam.
Salute that flag for Uncle Sam.
Get your money out, place your bets...
It's Afghanistan!
Fix bayonets, check grenades.
Got enough bullets,
Got enough rounds to wipe out this place?
We're the infantry & the cavalry
Parachutes fill the sky,
Bodies burn and people die.
It's not..Vietnam,
It's another oil company scam.
Better salute your flag for Uncle Sam.
Get your money out, place your bets...
It's Afghanistan!
Fix bayonets, check grenades.
Got enough bullets,
Got enough rounds to wipe out this place?
We're the infantry & the cavalry
Parachutes fill the sky,
Bodies burn and people die.
The only thing that didnt stand the test of time in this song are the parachutes.
If you'd like more proof that Keith Morris uses a crystal ball, go here (by the way, I noticed there is a guest vocalist of that name on a Fu Manchu album called California Crossing, song of the same name. Is that the same Keith Morris?)
In light of my entry on Thursday, I have decided the time has come: short of checking gig advertisings and things related to Bomb Ibiza, I will no longer be posting on Mancpunkscene. My patience with the tossers who now dominate its intellectual arena has run dry. Last year, in the forums mildly entertaining board awards, I won the merit of most politicially aware. At the time I disputed this, because out of the 1000 odd users there was at least a handful of people with more understanding of government politics and of social issues like drug-use and media racism than myself. It's telling that this years board awards, currently going on, don't even have a "most political" category.
I wouldn't have won it anyway, not that I'd particularly care. Partially because my postcount has been rising much less rapidly, and also because the atmosphere seems to have changed. It's shifted from disputes within liberal and radical politics to disputes between right-wing and rational politics. Mancpunkscene has succumbed to complete irrelevance and staleness. It has stopped providing an interesting forum for us to discuss our movement through the music scene. It's not just that dickhead Canadian Manchester City fan. A lot of the intellects, ie: the people who post about things other than putting traffic cones on their heads; have centralised their views in order to appear more open minded. This befalls far too many people with otherwise good values. People who can even consider debating whether firing cluster bombs into residential areas is ever a good idea, whether car culture is a major reason the US government has cocked up Hurricane Katrina so much, whether corporatism has absolutely destroyed the planet possibly beyond recovery, and whether oil production is peaking. Most recently whether Jeremy Clarkson is an irresponsible anti-humanist. I read a feature of his in the Sunday Times this morning in reference to making the London Olympics in 2012 environmentally friendly: "They [the games] are not an opportunity for a bunch of stupid, left-wing, weird-beard failures to make political points." They don't care that the instruments in their yearly new mobile phones may have come from looting of the warzone in the Congo, they don't care that by 2050 the UN predicts there will be 150million global warming refugees, they don't care that Nike owns Converse, Etnies and Vans. They don't acknowledge that cars don't enhance freedom, they supress it. They don't acknowledge that supermarkets represent a wholly unsustainable way of consuming and living. As a result, the views of radicals have become marginalised as irrational and extremist, as opposed to what is necessary in todays nightmarish world more than ever. I almost feel like I should point out to these morons that I do post in the music forums, just to show that I'm human and do think about non-serious things on occasion - as if I need to defend having the same views as the bands they all like. Mancpunkscene has become the Have Your Say segment of the BBC website: literally.
This morning, a man of maybe fifty-something came into the shop and bought a newspaper. As I got his change he said "rough night James?" I glanced up and didn't think I recognised him, but made a noise resembling a small laugh and grinned, guessing maybe he was a neighbour or a friend of my parents. "I wouldn't like to be behind those eyes" he said. "Heh, well.." - Well he was walking away before I came up with a boring reply. As he left I realised I didn't have any idea who he was, nor he I: he'd just read the name badge I recently acquired. Some people deserve to have their tongues cut out.
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