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...and before you make answer... you should read those lyrics

Coldcut - Every Home a Prison

Rejoice friends!
Big government is over.
From now on, instead of
community
you will be left
in the Market place
to fend for yourselves
claw for yourselves
stab for yourselves
guard for yourselves
what little money, savings, dignity and shelter
you have left.
After your jobs are downsized and
exported to Mexico,
tennishoes made by slaves in camps in Indonesia,
computer jobs sent across the ocean to Indonesia,
you will be next unless you bow down to the gar boots
and throw your benefits away
your raises away
and this is all you have to look forward to
forever and ever and ever.
As more and more benefits are slashed,
no more tax and spend welfare state
the windfall from tax cuts for the rich
is more and more people
out in the cold on the street!
Begging for money.
And when that doesn't work,
robbing people
car jacking
home invasion
everyone taught
that life is so cheap
there's nothing to look forward to
except what you can score
and smoke and get higher.
Ending welfare as we know it
means third world crime
as we know it.
So why is it all these
young people today misbehave
misbehave, misbehave?
Don't they appreciate the world we've build for them?
Crappy jobs,
dog eat dog.
No compassion in the marketplace.
If you like school
you'll love work.
Instead they ditch school
and hang out on the street:
young culture
young hooligans
everywhere you look
on tv anyway
and in the newspaper.
More and more people
will poor in the street
as their rents go up
and job opportunities go down.
So we have to keep them down
before they rise up and burn our
house of cards to the ground.
It's just the cost of doing business
in third world countries where we keep the peasants down.
We have to live in armed compounds with armed guards,
play tennis at gunpoint.
A different route to work behind bullet proof glass each day,
but hey, the more the hoards hate you the more
status you have.
Why not do this with the whole world?
with GAT treaties, downsizing but what about those god damned
hooligans in the street?
We stole their future.
It's all their fault!
We must lock them up,
but there is no room in the jails
so the best way is to sweep them away,
make every home a prison today.
Curfew, Curfew
Who cares how much our leaders are corupt, as long as they are tough
on crime?
Curfew
Keep them away!
Curfew
No longer unauthorized activity.
You can't leave the home without an electronic ankle bracelet.
Young offenders must be tagged and watched at all times.
Tag their parents with bracelets too if they don't obey!
For that matter tag them at work and make them stay.
The main enemy
terrorist threat
is your own children.
Think about it:
The music they listen to
that tells them the world is bad.
It's the songs that are the problem
not the violence outside.
Keep them locked up!
Keep them in Curfew!
Put them away!
Don't let them out!
We are tougher on crime
before the election.
We want a national law
establishing children's bedtimes.
Bedtime Patrol
We'll check up on you.
Bedtime Patrol
Make sure that your bracelet is on.
The nanny state,
to reach down your pants and check and see if you've been
moistening yourself with any unauthorized substance without permission.
Tag them!
Curfew them!
Keep them down!
Keep them at home!
To school
to rent a video on the way home
and stay home
just like at work.
Do not gather after dark.
Curfew!
It's such a family oriented word,
a much more acceptable smiling soft word,
a much more palletable concept
than Marshall Law.
Put your bracelets on.
You are safer when you are watched.
Don't go outside.
You will set the alarm off!
Curfew
Forever
and ever and evvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr

*snaps fingers repeatedly* This is good, did you write it?

no... I'm not so good... but this song should be played in every jukebox ...and.. I voted YES... because I don't want to see my house of cards burned

Who wrote that?

Jello Biafra, and it comes from Coldcut album 'Let Us Play' featuring himself in this song.

and there comes something more form cover:

Jello Biafra, the Dead Kennedy who ran for president listened to proto-fascistic rantings of UK+US polloticians calling for curfew and other darkconian measures of people-ulation control and at Coldcut's request recorded a damning satirical diatribe against our despots. Back Home CC turned on the HEX-designed playtime program (featured on Let Us Play CD-ROM) and edited some output into a wilfully random hardbop jazz techno thang on which Jello's processed rant could sit uneasily. Jello says: New Labour? more like anti-Labour! the Blair gang not only tore a few pages from Bill Clinto (aka president mcmuffin)'s book; they sucked up to Christian supremacists like Rev. Pat Robertson as well. In a desperate society made mean by thatcherite Robber Barons, "Business Asusual" is sustained by scapegoats. Broke? frustrated? frightened? Blame it on youth! We ruined their future and it's all their fault. Take the sting out of gatt slavery and corporate boardroom yob culture with a curfew for the young. First jail the kids, then lock up the unemployed! I fell on the floor laughing when I read in the Nation that Jack Straw (what a name) wanted national national guidelines on children's bedtimes. What kind of class war cartoon are we living in?? When Coldcut asked me for a voice track I couldn't resist venting about this. The words are edited by Coldcut from an improvisation recorded by Matt Kelley at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco.

Don't give up. Jello Biafra, June 97.

..finished... I hope it would wind up all your thoughts...

That was way too long. I just skimmed it. I chose yes, because part of me wish I had one.

I have thought and have removed the message

Joshuamonkey wrote:That was way too long. I just skimmed it. I chose yes, because part of me wish I had one.

I can't help but mistrust people who don't trust themselves enough to obey the rules they subscribe to without someone bigger and tougher making sure they do it.

I didn't vote, simply because I have no stand. Without one, I am uneffected by the crimes, with one I'd just break it, even if it would get me in trouble. If freedoms have to be removed to protect freedom is freedom that worth having in the first place? (I think that might be a quote paraphrased).

I finish with this I found when trying to check that:

Dorothy Thompson:
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Good quote Antichrist, but I still would not agree. It depends from free will. I can quote you someone else:

"Freedom does not exist as an external truth. It exists inside men,
and those who wish to be free are free."
- Paul Ernst

Personally i dont like it... i've heard too much preachy music.

Antichrist_Online wrote: If freedoms have to be removed to protect freedom is freedom that worth having in the first place? (I think that might be a quote paraphrased).

Maybe this quote by Ben Franklin:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

I use it a lot... it's a good quote.

Is this the one, do you think?

I didn't vote, just because this is probably going to turn into another long and lengthy debate and I don't want any evidence that I can't go back and delete later to be present. I'd probably vote no, though. The concept of a curfew simply doesn't make sense. Raising penalties would help more, if you want to get tough on crime, get tough on criminals, not the groups that produce them the most (ecspecially since you can't possibly escape being a teenager).

I can't help but mistrust people who don't trust themselves enough to obey the rules they subscribe to without someone bigger and tougher making sure they do it.

Whatever, I'm just a kid. Though yeah, sometimes I really do need to be up late for something. Who knows, maybe I'll kill Nicki by being awake extra late.