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1. ...And Now Back To Our Programming
2. Sexist Appeal
3. Pathetic Humanity
4. The Promise Keepers
5. The Dying And The Dead
6. Welfare Recipients
7. Xenophobia
8. World Bank
9. Capital Punishment
10. Tax Shelter
11. Media Blackout
1. ...And Now Back To Our ProgrammingPhillip Morris and R.J. Reynolds kill every single pack
McDonald's sues London Greenpeace for presenting the public with the facts
Disney expands its international market with help from the CIA
Coors uses consumer support to help finance the KKK
Ending oil protests with executions Nigeria belongs to Shell
Pepsi dealt with the oppressive regimes in the Phillipines to build another Taco Bell
General Motos creates competition with their "whipsawing" tactics role
Dupont alone is responsible for four percent of the ozone layer hole
Public opinion lobotomized
Civilized bloodbath
Smoke screen security
Civilized bloodbath
Populations prioritized
Civilized bloodbath
Third-world trophy
Civilized bloodbath
Texaco's diseased people of the Amazon and Indonesia
Vivisections performed by Gillette and Unilever
Walmart moves in to monopolize and rape communities
Nestle is responsible for third-world deaths from baby bottle disease
Johnson and Johnson's anti-diarrhea-drops killed children in Pakistan
Chinese immigrant slave labor make Levis Dockers in Saipan
The FDA has approved irridating food for Vindicator
Forests are clearcut by Mirsubishi, Maxxam, and Stone Container
Civilized bloodbath
Civilized bloodbath
Civilized bloodbath
Civilized bloodbath
We all like to point the finger at the faceless company
But the corporation machine consists of people like you and me
By existing in this society we all share the guilt
We're all responsible for the misery the multinationals have built
We all add to the list of victims the companies compile
By believing any of us are innocent we're living in denial
We are all a part of the problem no matter how hard we try
We help to create these conditions with everything we buy
Public opinion lobotomized
Civilized bloodbath
Smoke screen security
Civilized bloodbath
Populations prioritized
Civilized bloodbath
Third-world trophy
Civilized bloodbath
The self-riteousness of judgement is something that no human being
has the luxury to pass. Every single one of us survive at the expense
of other living things. Although our very existence contradicts our
effects our struggle is still relevant in relieving the burdens that
we create, but our involvment is based on individual beliefs and
ambitions. Hope needs to be nurtured, compassion and understanding
will not grow out of scrutiny. Encouragement and tolerance is the
only way that activism will evolve from indifference.(This was your life)
Conditioning is simple and you keep it that way
Ignorance is bliss when you stay stale and stagnant
Too old to care and too little to matter
Anarchy is now 9 to 5, wallet's a bit fatter
Once full of piss and vinegar now full of shit and dope
Freedom isn't easy I guess you couldn't cope
You gave into the pressure someone greased your hand
Just remain passive it's the safest place to stand
So to your feelings stay immune
And the bullshit they feed you, continue to consume
ConsumeWe've got ways of keeping you in line
Keeping you numb, dumb, and weak
Things to keep your mind off of us
So intimidated that you dare not speak
You fucking know that we police the street
We know who to watch, we know how to beat
We know what you do and where you go
We'll dress like you and go to your shows
To sell you the shit that destroys your brain
That you snort up your nose or shoot in your vein
We'll start a riot at your police brutality benefit
And keep it from spreading contain the threat
Until you destroy yoursevles, defeat yourselves,
Burn yourselves and kill yourselves
We'll put a McDonald's on every street
That's where you'll work, that's where you'll eat
For minimum wage, for student wage
For poverty and malnutrition
And we'll stock your grocery store shelves full of shit
And keep it open for a couple of years before we torch it
That's simply the way it's going to be so get used to it
Get used to it if you're going to take our shit
So don't try to protest or organize
Because we're too fucking strong, don't you realize
That we keep you fighting amongst yourselves, we keep you seperate
And without unity you'll be no threat
We keep pointing the finger at you and you
Never really knowing who turns the screw
And now you're trapped like a rat on a sinking ship
And it's sinking fast so get used to it
Get used to it you're going to take our shit
All you'll get is what we'll fucking let
Your college campus with your liberal views
An education or your head in a noose
And after you graduate where will you go
You'll have nowhere to live and nothing to show
Come put on a suit and come work for us
You'll become all that you hate and all you disgust
You'll forget who you were, what you did, and what you stood for
You'll be trapped in your office
You'll be trapped in traffic
You'll be trapped in your home
You'll be trapped in your church
You'll be trapped in your mind
Trapped like rats on the same sinking ship
Trapped again and getting used to it
And when you grow old with your husband or with your wife
You'll be used to it, you'll be used to it
And to think that your whole fucking life
You took our shitCapitalism is responsible for the lifestyle you've enjoyed
Who cares about the people slain be thankful you're employed
It's not about comsumer choice, it's not about convenience
It's not about the billions made, it's all about indifference
So lay your trust upon us it's your quality of life we'll enhance
Realize the benefits and the fact that without us you don't stand a chance
We've built dependence upon a structure that you have to trust
So if you try to destory our system we're going to take you with usThe public relations industry studies our every move
Constantly advising corporations how they can improve
Their profits, their monopolies, their uncompromising growth
And how to beed the consumer for everything they're worth
Their wealth exists off of our labor and our willingness to consume
Manipulated by every medium the public just assume
That their innocent, unbiased forums exist solely to entertain
While the industries we work for are just out to reclaim
The wages they've paid us to produce the markets demands
Every cent we've ever earned makes it back into their hands
Enhancing their wealth, enhancing their claim, achieving their domination
Maintaining their power, maintaining their reign, they're gaining from exploitaton
Sacrificing humanity for the good of industry
Is the fault the result of them or our own stupidity
Do they possess that much influence over everything we do
Are the consequences of our actions ever really thought through
Do we truly understand how one person can make a difference
By developing individual thought free from outside interference
Our own struggle for survival comples us to drop it
Should our compassion be cashed in for profit
When you are the victim of your government's attack
It should only be natural to want to fight back
But when they've relentlessly progammed you your entire existenceWe tried to make a difference but what have we actually achieved
Have we put up any obstacles or just helped them to succeed
Have we constructed any bridges or just built another wall
Have our beliefs and our ideals accomplished anything at all
Have we ever caused our leaders to change a single thing
Have we ever been a threat or just puppets on a string
Have we wasted all of our time painting pictures for the blind
While we've created isolation have we changed a single mind
Have we had enought sense to learn from our mistakes
Are we prepared for personal sacrifices no matter what it takes
Are we willing to work together putting differences aside
Or is compormise too much to rish damaging our pride
Do we have enough hope to still find trust in someone else
Do we have the compassion to fight the problems that don't directly affect ourselves
Have we ever stood a chance or have our efforts been naive
Have we bought into their lies of what they tell us to believe
It still is your option what path to choose
Don't let the only change yo make be in your views
Like if you can't fight everything why bother to try
You can learn from the hypocracies you used to deny
Is it all a charade or do you actually mean it
Do your ideals only surface when it's politically convenient
You're stuck in society's trap and although you're tryin to cope
If you can't change yourself, you'll lose more than just hope
So the next time you're down on your knees just remember
The plight of the oppressed ends with the oppressor
And if it's easier for you to live under that oppression
They they've already got you as their possessionSaturated with sex stereotypes gender roles reinforce inferiority
Exploiting anatomy, exploiting sexuality, preying on insecurities
Forcefed proper mannerisms, treated different from the day of birth
Raised as men's servants who should never question their own sense of worth
Conditioning children with anororexic plastic of "perfect" feminine traits
Learning how to hide any belemishes, meeting standards men create
Painting flesh like planting a picture that subliminally suggests
To equally conditioned men that women are just there for sex
Striving to achieve the super model image the media project
Spending countless hours enhancing a look instead of self respect
Eating disorders insuring beauty and endangering health
When living life behind a mask you an't expect to know yourself
When women are taught one way to act and men are taught another
Without understanding or communicationthe result too often is
Bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice
Any man that would treat a woman as property you keep
Is nothing but an ignorant bigot that can only see skin deep
Having a relationship of inequality, treating a woman as a possession
Taking advantage of devotion using emotions as a weapon
Violating another's personal rights as if they never mattered
Everyday that begins with this conditioning ends with another woman battered
Taught how to act taught how to think, taught how to feel, told by another gender
Sexist appeal dehumanizes woman molding an image
Making the body the most important part to pursue
Initiation a chase that relies on deception
Hoping persistent efforts will overcome rejection
Conditioned y images lusting for sex
Haunting men's thoughts of who they'll bed next
Taught how to act, taught how to think
Taught how to feel, told by another gender
Sexist appeal dehumanizes women by abusing sexuality
Another person's body shouldn't be viewed as a trophy
Taught to pretend, taught to please
Taught to conceal, told that you must surrender
Sexist appeal demoralizes men, encouraging rape
Another person's body is never for anyone else to take
Treating a fellow person without any respect
Condemning behavior as if the woman asked for it
Society's distorted our judgement with what they suggest
Why take no for an answer when no really means yesWe've heard it all
So many times before
Stop treating women
Like some trashy cheap whore
Or like a virgin that must lead
A sterile life
A surrogate mother
Under the disguise of the word wife
They make the rules
And yet they don't play fair
Forcing sexual stereotypes
That make us all aware
Of every single one of our failures
In the eyes of society
Telling me that i'm not quite
What i'm supposed to be
I'm not married with two children
Or single with a career
I'm not drowning in some mortgage
Or living in financial fear
I don't cower as i walk home
All alone throughout the streets
I refuse to be treated
Like a piece of trumped up meat
I turn away from the billboards
That extol the latest fad
Of looking like a junkie
In the Calvin Klein ad
Now it's time to get beyond
All of our rage and pointing fingers
To see through the lies
No matter how much it lingersAs long as i can remember
I've been a victim of men's lies
And in turn i've victimized women
Through ignorant naive eyes
When overlooking personality
In the person that i'm seeing
Then my attraction becomes the
Exploitation
Of another human being
In my heart i know equality
But conditioning affects my brain
So without complete understanding
Oppression will remain
For as enlightened as i may consider
myself
I still have much to learn
And since actually achieving equality
Still is a concern
I must open my mind to the opinions
That women would suggest
Because they're the ones who understand
Sexual oppression best
As a man I'm part of the problem
That's something i must accept
Unless through their education
I can evole towards a mutual respect
Everyone of us should realize
How our struggle now relates
And how as equals we can destroy
What society dictates
We can hopefully find a way
To respectfully co-exist
And then eliminate
The biggest prejudice that existsBecause this is not about man vs. woman or woman vs. man
but human to human as we struggle to understand
We're living life suspiciously believing there's no one we can trust
They're dividing the population the system is destroying us
Profiting from this division and the line of thinking that's been bought
If equality is ever to exist we have to unlearn what we've been taught
Bigotry by ignorance, unintended prejudice"Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role I gave up
leading this family, and forced you to take my place. Now I must reclaim
my role. I'm not asking you, I'm telling. You must submit for th survival
of our family and our culture. Remember, God wants you to."
Surrender to your rightful keepers do it for our Lord
A life of holy servitude is women's just reward
Have faith in all of our promises surrender yourselves to men
And when you get to heaven, you'll be a servent once again
The promise keepers are on a mission, the conversion of a nation
But only by total submssion will women find salvation
They justify spiritua slavery by claiming it's God's will
They're trying to insure oppression through legislative bills
Dave Wardell wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Bill McCartney want you to do it-surrender-submit
Jesus Christ wants you to do it-surrender-submit
God wants you to do it-surrender-submit
We're second oly to God when it comes to absolute authority
It's your duty as God fearing christians to help cleanse society
Submit all aspects of your life for us to review
When it's family, business or sexuality we'll tell you what to do
Souls are held for ransom by The Religious Right
Securing what they believe to be the politics of christ
They instill the fear of God by threatening the masses
So their homophobic, anti-woman lobby platform passes
Tony Brown wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Steve Chavis wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Jesus Christ wants you to do it-surrender-submit
God wants you to do it-surrender-submit
"Never have 300,000 men come together throughout history,
Except for the purpose of war" We'll start with homosexuality
Then it's women, abortion, sinners and secularism
All are subject to our political and spiritual exorcisms
Stealing away huan right while worshippers applaud
All because they're threatened by the tyranny of God
The only promises these bigoted men will keep
Is the exploitation of a nation of mere sheep
Pat Robertson wants you to do it-surrender-submit
James Kennedy wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Bill Bright wants you to do it-surrender-submit
James Dobson wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Jim Berlucci wants you to do it-surrender-submit
James Ryle wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Jesus Christ wants you to do it-surrender-submit
And your God wants you to do it-surrender-submit
Fuck you I will not surrender, I will not submitThiry thousand auto workers have gone to work to find
That they've been downsized form the assembly to the unemployment line
The employed seeking job security content with what employers give
Thinning out the job market keeps the workers competitive
The upper one percent receive the tax breaks, social program cut's commence
Educational funds take a back seat to America's defense
These education cuts are an investment in the prison industry
An occupational restructuring towards a slave labor economy
The chance of survival on death row disappears,theirright to appeal is deprived
Worker strength and solidarity depletes with union officials bribed
Raising taxes to build sports stadiums while the homeless are ignored
Refusing to supply the health care benefits most people can't afford
The newly founded citizen review boards' members are all police
The gap widens between the cost of living and the inflation increase
Those in power own the media machine it's the vehicle to their views
They bury all of their corruption under fluff reported news
They bombard us with statistics to influence public opinion
The more ridiculous the lie the more people seem to listen
It's the people with no money that are responsible for the rest of us being poor
We'll just eliminate the welfare system to even up the score
Our conditions never imporve no matter how many programs we stop
The money always seems to circulate back to the people at the top
The occasionl whining criticisms keep the public satisfied
The rest are busy escaping reality with drugs the CIA supplied
It's always the most oppressed who easily fall victim to ignorance
Even with all that they've been through they still pledge allegiance
To their country and flag that has caused all of their grievous pain
Patriotism leads to natonalism which in turn proceeds to fascism
Poor and working class people are the tools of sick corporate perseverance
Shit on little puppets exploited in the trials of human dominance
But still the pride goes on blindly and in so-called freedom they gloat
Waving the flag but cursing the politicians they think they elect when they vote
Behind the trails of our peacekeepers lie the dying and the dead
There are millions of starving chilren that are waiting to be fed
Because executive orders demand that economic sanctions are applied
If they'd have bowed down to our pressure, relief may have just arrived
As the worlds only super power we rule without regret
We don't let these children survive and grow up to be a threat
Love of this country is based on nothing but the fear of living somewhere worse
And gratitude shouldn't be the reaction to someone else being slaughtered firstWho are the biggest recipients of the institution of public assistance
Who's bled the taxpayers of countless funds since our welfare system's existence
What group has always been the biggest freeloading welfare whore
Our leaders claim single mothers, minorities, immigrants and the poor
So they've cut the funding to all of these groups while real recipients hide
Telling the public that by their actions they've eliminated the free ride
They're going to have to work or starve there's no way left to cheat
No chance of generous government handouts except for th corporate elite
What as given to single mothers didn't compare
With the amount of money given for corpoate welfare
When the option is companies or people who are we going to feed
Cut the corporate welfare, no more suffering for their greed
What they've tried to keep a secret and what we need to understan
Is that the welfare systime wasn't meant to lend a helping hand
It's just another government safety net to help the rich succeed
Prioritizing aid on a scale of power instead of actual financial need
Are they so concerned with our welfare as they're taking children off it
To give money to corporations so the helping hand can share the profet
While people are cited as statistical scapegoats in an effort to confuse
Everyone of us has paid the price for the welfare corporations use
What was given to minorities
With the amount of money given for corpoate welfare
When the option is companies or people-who are we going to feed?
Cut the corporate welfare, no more suffering for their greed
Are we as a people as naive that we believed their helping hand sincere
Devouring our social programs they've made their intntions crystal clear
Our survival doesn't compare with the need for corporate dominance
Stealing food from the mouths of people, with an inflated sense of self-importance
The trusting, obedient tapayers are being fucked by their politicians
Paying for the privilege of being robbed by a system that never listens
If they're genuinely trying to relieve the burden with all the cuts they've made
Then why didn't their cuts include the funds provided for corporate aid
What was given to immigrants didn't compare
With the amount of money given for corpoate welfare
When the option is companies or people-who are we going to feed?
Cut the corporate welfare, no more suffering for their greedRestricitng immigration won't solve this country's problems
The refugees are only our leaders scapegoats
Bigoted politicians claim that immigration is unemployment's source
So th INS are given unending power to enforce
The restrictions regulated by immigrants descendants
Who project open border plicies as national resentments
Unwilling to provide the same opportunities they've been given
To desperate refugees whose passage has been forbidden
By a government who's often reponsible for their countries situation
But they just intensify the suffering by restricting immigration
Denying immigrants from corssing a line
They're closing the borders like they've closed their minds
Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
No human is illegal like governments claim
Exploiting foreign markets with capitalisms principles
NAFTA was created to benefit the multinationals
Big business cuts their expenses with their sweatshop wage
Keeping foreign labor in an economical cage
They've created the incentive to ship the jobs out of this country
Making Americans more receptive to minimum wage and bigotry
The government maintains approval when their fault remains concealed
They'll just find another scapegoat after they pass the anti-immigration bill
Denying immigrants from crossing a line
They're closing the borders like they've closed their minds
Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
No human is illegal like the governments claim
Creating xenophobia is another tactic in which our leaders have managed
To redirect blame to someone other than themselves or big business
The media lap up the reports of increasing poverty, unemployment, welfare an
Government aid supposedly caused by refugees while largely ignoring the
Countless reports of rapes, beating, and general harassment by the
INS and US border patrols Not to mention Americana servicement
Actually crossing the Mexican border to rape women or New York police
Officers gang raping a Haitian immigrant with a plunger These atrocities
Occur because xenophobia has instilled the thinking that refugees are
Problems and not people...Xenophobia kills
Patriotism plants the seens of ignorance and hate
Destroying the people and all compassion to protect the state
Every person is entitled to live, no human should be banned
It only benefits the wealthy to own a piece of land
It only divides the people by the borders, by the countries
It's only another obstacle blocking any chance of equality
We've got to smash their walls our efforts must persist
We've got to wake the people up to see what they've dismissed
People are not expendable, government isThird world is plagued by poverty and the world bank is the cause
An instrument of transnational companies to overule domestic laws
Serving merely as a weapon for american foreign policy leverage
Starvation is considered an effective repayment incentive
The initiating step in US planned destabilizaion
Is extorting money by economic manipulation
With world bank interference development is prevented
Their actions differ greatly from the compassionate image that's presented
Restructuring the world ecomomy is the world bank and the IMF
Benefitting the richest countries while developing nations are bled to death
The third world is descended so deeply into debt that their economies can't function
The demand for outrageous interest force these countries to increase production
Ecuador is forced to porduce more oil to repay all it's debt
This strain upon the ecosystem's an environmental threat
Rainforests have been ravished for iron smelting i Brazil
Ten million people have been forced from the land the world bank steal
Structural adjustment programs have pushed Peru to poverty
While many African nations suffer from extreme austerity
Restructuring the world economy is the world bank and the IMF
Benefitting the richest countries while developing nations are bled to death
Establishing puppet dictators whose actions are devestating
The world's economists line their pockets with the regimes that they're creating
They're the power watchdog security guarding where first world interests lie
They slash and burn the rainforests or build another dam
They systematically drive the indigenous people off of their land
They've paved the way for industry to legally cease resources
By imposing the political policies their leashed tyrant enforces
Restructuring the world economy is the world bank and the IMF
Benefitting the richest countries while developing nations are bled to deathThe United States is one of two remaining industrialized nations to
still use death as a form of punishment. There are approximately 3,000
prisoners currently living on Death Row. No other country in the world
has this many of it's citizens awaiting execution. If you support capital
punishment you support absolute political control at it's sickest
extreme.
Murder, murder, murder, murder
Why must we continue to murder
Those who've been convicted of murder
Enforced under the lie that it's deterrent of murder
Justifies their fucking murder
Sentenced to die
Sentenced to death
Capitol punishment
A tool of the terrorist
It's nothing more than a political weapon
It's not a deterrent
It's not a prevention
Kill one man
Spare another
Our justice system is based on color
Examine the facts
You have to face it
The American's crime
An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind
Politicians who seek enhancement look towards murder for career advancement
They prey on fear and insecurity
To win support of the majority
Endorsing murder under false perceptions
Being tough on crime helps win elections
They're playing God
They have no right
It's premeditated political sacrifice
It's not about a murder or a crime committed
Not what was done, but who fucking did it
It's not about law or even justice
It's all about race and economic status
You can't judge a person by a stereotyped race
You have to look at the individual case
No life's returned by an execution
Another death is no solution
Their justice system is just our burden
The way they treat the average person
What about murder by government agents
Not capital punishment or even containment
These political pawns get away with murder
They're servants to the new world order
You'll see no outside intervention
Not a single death recommendationAnother vacant building is a tax shelter and nothing more
Cemented doors and windows keeping out the poor
What purpose does it serve to keep these buildings emply
Destroying our community to protect abandoned property
Functioning as financial loopholes instead of the housing they could make
Because those owning empty buildings claim a generous government tax break
So is housing just a luxury to b enjoyed by the upper class
Another right you don't deserve if you haven't got the cash
The trouble with ruling class financial tactics
Is that it's the people who need shelter not their taxes
Destruciton described as progress evicting people from their shelter
Renovating and rebuilding under the guise of making cities better
But who does this progress better by putting people in the street
Has it benefitted the community when construction is complete
Housing is not a privledge, not a luxury but a right
communities don't function any better with their problems out of sight
Our communities consise of more than concrete, brick and steel
It's made up of people including the homeless they conceal
The trouble with ruling class financial tactics
Is that it's the people who need the shelter not their taxes
Every inch of established land got that way by means of force
And by paying rent were forced to contribute to that source
With our communities our people suffer under this establishment
It's not about housing these are human rights they make us rent
Only the landlords profit as our lives are sold and bought
And those who fight this process get evicted from their squat
So while our leaders carry out these unjust squat evictions
They prove that freedom can't exist under capitalist conditions
The trouble with ruling class financial tactics
Is that it's the people who need shelter not their taxesObjective reporting no longer exists
The reporter's accountability has always been dismissed
The government keeps control with their hypnotized support and the media lends a hand when they consistently distort
Report to distort
Inform to reform
Suppress to repress
Media blackout
They compromise their principles and their integrity is lacking
How can they be unbiased with big business financial backing?
Money and deception is what the media's all about
Because if they can't supppress the media they just fucking buy them out
Report to distort
Inform to reform
Suppress to repress
Media blackout
We have to seek out the alternatives to the paper and the news
Their stranglehold won't weaken while we're force-fed all of their views
You have to think for yourself, always consider the source
Oppression of the people isn't always done with force
Report to distort
Inform to reform
Suppress to repress
Media blackout