Calm Like a Bomb

So I went to see Rock the Bells yesterday, on Randall's Island in NYC. I'm no fan of the Big Apple, and I'll spare you the details of my trip to and from. Suffice it to say that, despite the heat, humidity, and long line for water, the show was a blast.

Of course the reason I went to Rock the Bells was to see Rage Against the Machine. And as the brilliant reporters at Fox News discovered earlier this year, Rage love controversy. But Zack and Rage, unlike so many self-righteous reactionaries and government cheerleaders, stand up for what they believe in and do so consistently. The real reason Fox hates Rage is not because, as uber-reactionary Ann Coulter puts it, "they think they can shoot the president," but because they hold all people to the same standard and don't think anyone is above or below the law. Rage would avoid a lot of controversy if they would just admit that American lives are worth more than African or Iraqi or Vietnamese lives. Of course, Rage being consistent in their beliefs and all, I'm not holding my breath for that.

Oh, and the quote in question, in full text, is below courtesy of Wikipedia who got it from MTV:

"...if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II [...] every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on, would have been hung to death and shot - and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that. Because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive - and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down, generation after generation after generation after generation after generation.... Wake up."