No Treason

Unfortunately, I can’t embed any of these videos because the SOAD/Sony channel has that disabled.  Lame.

Serj (lead vocals) always reminds me of David Yow from The Jesus Lizard, another amazing small club act.  Of course, reminds me of Yow without the nudity or drunkenness.   But the performance aspect is totally there.

System Of A Down – War?

Dark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the Seljuks,
When the holy land was taken

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

Was it the riches, of the land,
Powers of bright darkness,
That lead the noble, to the East,
To fight the lord

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

We must call upon our bright darkness,
Beliefs, they’re the bullets of the wicked,
One was written on the sword,
For you must enter a room to destroy it, destroy it, destroy it.
No International security,
No Call of the righteous man,
Needs a reason to kill a man,
History teaches us so,
The reason he must attain,
Must be approved by his God,
His child, partisan brother of war,

Of war, we don’t speak anymore,
Of war, we don’t speak anymore,
Of war, we don’t speak anymore,
Of war, we don’t speak anymore,

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

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Some other SOAD worth listening to;

Sugar

Spiders

I remember first listening to this band on the bus ride home from work in Vancouver. I don’t know where I got the tape from.  Tapes.  lol

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I don’t have the time right now to do all of the research, but specific data won’t undermine the premise of this post.

If it takes 20 Palestinian “terrorists” to kill an Israeli, does this mean the Palestinians are really bad at terrorism?  I’m the last guy to justify violence by anyone but the math simply does not add up.  7,000+ rockets over 8 years, but only 20 Israeli fatalities.  Contrast that with thousands of Palestinians who have died at the hands of Israeli force during the same period.

Typically, we assume a single rocket (like a single terrorist/suicide bomber) to be capable of harming or killing more than one person.  To the layman, or someone educated by the western media, 7,000 rockets is synonymous with at least 7,000 deaths.  The facts don’t bear this out.  And when one looks at these pathetic rockets, it’s a wonder they haven’t killed more than 20 some people by what can only be called sheer random chance.

Contrast that with American made bombs.  The per bomb death totals, even the aggregate totals are never revealed.  How many bombs will Israel drop on Gaza? How many people will die?

Obviously, I have sympathies for the Palestinians.  I also have sympathies for Israelis.  There are ways these conflicts can be solved without violence.  But as long as the killing is distorted as justice, such resolutions will never become possible.

One positive outcome of this recent mass slaughter in Gaza, is that the world is re-aligning against dramatic and massive use of military force.  Shock and awe is giving way to shock and horror.

As the global depression deepens, it’s important for those of us who would champion liberty to remind everyone that declining prosperity has definitely come at the expense of military adventurism, empire and conquest for the elites.

From Wikipedia

Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs. It is an integral concept of George Orwell‘s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

War and Peace, turning their backs on one another.

One of my favourite examples of doublethink is

“War is Peace” or, “We have to fight’em over there, so we don’t have to fight’em over here”.

The premise being that only through war abroad can there be peace at home. Or that killing creates safety. Or that murder is a tool to prevent, yep, you guessed it, murder.

Continue reading Doublethink 101