A Power Governments Cannot Suppress - Vinnie Paz

One of the things we might learn from history, is that the government’s

interests are not necessarily the same as ours

In fact, are rarely the same as ours.

Because if you think the government’s

interests are the same as yours, then you think — «Well if something is going

wrong it must be that they made a mistake 'cause they really care about us»

They don’t care about us!

The greatest beneficiary of Reagan years was corporations

Wealthy businessmen and ministers of foreign nations

Bush promised that he would save the environment

Signed the clean air act and had the public buyin' it

Two years after that, we see it as imprudence

The EPA allowed tons of hazardous pollutants

Little money was allocated for the enforcement

Contaminated drinkin' water, everywhere was dormant

But business worries override the safety of the public

Ecological breakdowns and nobody would publish

When Reagan got elected and he finally took to office

He spent a quarter million dollars on his livin' quarters

He built the military even more, and paid for it with cuts and benefits for the

poor

He made 140 billion cuts in social programs

Human consequences wasn’t justified to no man

He said that he still balanced the budget

Wassily Leontief guaranteed that he wouldn’t

The 80's were the triumph of upperclass America

Ascendancy of the rich, the poor he would bury ya

The gap between the rich and the poor grew dramatically

Black families were hit the hardest, be emphatically

Lack of resources, and racial discrimination

Broken homes, drug addiction, incarceration

Instead of trying to help the people out of this position, politicians called

for the building of more prisons

Reagan lied about Iran, lied to Nicaragua, lied about the Soviets and lied

about the Contras

He sold arms to Iran, all of it was cited but plausible denial is why he ain’t

get indicted

Oli North stood trial, the jury found him guilty but he ain’t do no time

because the motherfucker’s filthy

Reagan sent Marines into a crazy situation

Two hundred died in Lebanon 'cause it was dangerous

After that he sent forces into Grenada, congress was notified but not consulted,

that’s a horror

What good’s a show of force if you never use it?

That’s the way that Reagan’s mind worked and he abused it

Why do people die in countries we invading?

So we can make it clear that

violence was understated

Reagan’s raid on Libya, that was terrorist

Bombs fell on a crowded city, a hundred victims

The Cold War?

Let me relay you the facts

The foreign policy just delayed the collapse

The U.S. policy motivated by Fed, to justify the suppression of independant care

The military budget was 280 billion, Colin Powell said he wanna scare the

world’s civilians

In order to boost his popularity with voters

Bush went to war with Iraq and hid the motives

He abandoned sanctions and said it was for protection

He only chose war because the presidential elections

Who believed that we would liberate Kuwait?

When we invaded other countries every single week

You think that they could build a nuclear bomb?

They was 10 years away from having nuclear bombs

Less than half of us favored military action

No blood for oil was the citizen’s reaction

Officials lied about small bombs, American reporters were kept from the war’s

harm

Clinton got in and appointed people of color

But he abandoned them when they started working together

He spoke of a new government for a new century

Invoked Dr. King’s name, compared their philosophy

Recalled Dr. King’s dream of racial equality

But put more blacks in prison than anybody in history

Continued the military budget in Cold War levels

It doesn’t matter the party, homie, they all devils

Approved the FBI attack on Koresh

Fire swept through the whole building burning flesh

His crime bill got a lot of attention but it emphasized punishment,

not prevention

Persuaded voters he was tough on crime

But tougher is dumber when you give 'em double the time

Clinton removed welfare benefits from immigrants

Legal or illegal, most of y’all don’t know the difference

Who did the free trade agreement really preserve?

Why the number of prisoners doubled when Clinton served?

Domination of the media was there to vaccinate

If god intended us to vote, he would’ve gave us candidates

Bush verse Gore, that was your decision

Both support the death penalty and broke the prisons

Nader ran too but the media denyin' it

He emphasized education, healthcare environment

Half the country didn’t even vote and that’s a sign

Appealin' to class warfare that no one’s buying

Gore received hundreds of thousands or more votes

Proof the electoral process is a joke

Bush took office and pushed tax cuts for the wealthy

Opposed environmental regulations for the money

Nine months into his presidency, 9/11

Immediately declared a war on terrorism

He said that they were Saudi, said it was the Taliban

Then he ordered the bombing of Afghanistan

You kill our civilians, we kill y’all civilians

How the fuck that make sense when we all civilians?

Wartime presidents do wartime shit

That’s why wartime presidents can suck my dick

There were minority voices that were criticizing war

You can’t match violence or violence should be the law

We stationed troops in Saudi on the holiest of shrines

Military aid for occupying Palestine

Killing innocents arabs would come back to haunt us

And stupid motherfuckers sit and wonder why they bomb us

If you’re like me, you have a lot of friends who are depressed

A lot of friends who go around very gloomy, think the world is coming to an end

You can understand people feeling depressed, you can understand people feeling

desperate

Because the truth is, we’re faced with evil

There’s an enormous number of people who care about the world and about the

country, wanna do something about it

And those numbers are going to grow, so long as people persist and don’t give up