Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Just making extra sure?

This just in from the Department of Redundancy Department: Rage Against the Machine -- the politcal-rock band, not how I deal with computers -- is back, and lead singer Zack de la Rocha has a prescription for what ails us. Well, at least for the part of what ails us that is the Bush Administration.

The
San Jose Mercury-News fills us in:

He also railed against the war in Iraq and likened Bush administration officials to Nazi war criminals.

"This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot," he said.

Drummer Brad Wilk, bassist Tim Commerford and guitarist Tom Morello, who wore a hat with the word "UNITY" on it, completed the lineup.

"They changed my life. They made me a liberal," said sweat-drenched history teacher Rafael Ramon, 25, who had waited in a crowd packed shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the stage all day.

"All of America needed Rage to come back. They've been missing," he said.

Tried.

And hung.

And shot.

Well, Rage just believes in being thorough, I guess.

I'M NOT SURE who's the bigger idiot, Zack de la Rocha or the history teacher who thinks that kind of hate speech -- and don't tell me publicly advocating the violent death of the president isn't hate speech -- is what's needed today.


Contrary to half-witted 25-year-old schoolteachers' opinions, such talk -- even by idiot rockers -- probably merits a serious tete-a-tete with Secret Service or FBI agents, just on the principle that that's what surely would happen to me if I crossed that rhetorical line. Apart from that, however, I have a serious question that I intend to ask, and ask, and ask, and ask again . . . .

WHAT'S THE DEAL with a society when the only thing everybody can agree upon is that the solution to one problem or another -- we tend to disagree on which problems -- involves somebody getting killed?

As far as key members of the Bush Administration go, I would be perfectly happy with impeachment, indictment, trial and imprisonment. Of killing, we've had a gullet full.

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