You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train-Vinnie Paz

[00:03.35]Governments lie all the time [00:04.58] [00:05.70]Well not just the American government [00:06.98] [00:07.51]It's just in the nature of governments [00:09.84] [00:10.54]Well they have to lie [00:11.61] [00:12.20]And since they all represent the people [00:13.52]In some sense they act against the [00:14.76]Interest of the people [00:15.73]The only way they can hold power is [00:18.52]If they lie to the people [00:20.01] [00:20.66]You don't know what I know [00:24.59] [00:25.24]You can't see the spreading state [00:30.59] [00:31.33]Of deception I am cruel to myself [00:36.73] [00:37.44]Things will never be the same [00:41.59] [00:43.76]If they told people the truth [00:44.75]They wouldn't last very long [00:46.09] [00:46.64]I will hold my silence like a weapon in my hand [00:55.95] [00:56.49]If I used it I would murder myself [01:02.20]You could never understand [01:06.61] [01:08.64]Columbus came ashore greeted with nothing but niceness [01:12.03]Sailing west in attempt to find gold and spices [01:14.61]Dominated by the popes in frenzy for ices [01:17.56]The Catholic church expelled Jews and [01:19.24]Claimed it was righteous [01:20.22]The first man to see land would get a reward [01:22.64]And get a yearly pension for life clearly from God [01:26.00]A young sailor saw land said We isn't far [01:28.84]Columbus lied said he saw it the evening before [01:31.89]They touched ground they were greeted by the Arawak [01:34.26]Columbus had them locked up as prisoners in an hour flat [01:37.41]He wanted to find their source of gold and that was that [01:40.32]And when they thought that wasn't fair [01:41.96]Then he stabbed their back [01:43.17]When there's no more gold he took slaves instead [01:45.47] [01:46.10]And left a quarter million Indians in Haiti dead [01:48.97]The men died in mines the women died at work [01:51.67]The children died from lack of milk [01:53.17]And they died in the dirt [01:54.84]They were just taking advantage of a passive people [01:57.46]They were just being the savages of massive evil [02:00.40]That's the church work that's the path of massive ego [02:02.71] [02:03.23]That's the blood of Abraham being stabbed by the steeple [02:06.16]In 1619 they were patiently waiting [02:09.04]For a ship that carried slaves [02:10.46]That was changing the nation [02:11.89]The white man was the cannibal praying to Satan [02:14.54]Hatred contempt a pity of patronization [02:16.58] [02:17.40]That's the corner stone everything racism based in [02:20.34]The African had a more advanced civilization [02:22.58] [02:23.12]Black was slave master was white rationalization [02:25.64] [02:26.19]50 million dead that's Western civilization [02:28.15] [02:29.39]At first they appeared in the North [02:31.63]And they were helpless in the face of superior force [02:34.63]And all of them were chained together [02:35.95]They really was lost [02:37.63]Racism is a natural that's merely divorced [02:40.33]Before the slave trade black was considered distasteful [02:43.35]By the Oxford dictionary I find it disgraceful [02:46.18]It's not a natural tendency to be bitter and hateful [02:48.87]It's the natural enemy of the critical stable [02:51.26] [02:51.88]Slavery grew as the plantation system grew [02:54.66]The reason for that's kinda easily traceable [02:57.03] [02:57.57]Society of helpless dependence was capable [03:00.32]Of saying **** a slave master you're in slavery too [03:03.34]Seven slaves was put to death for murdering master [03:06.11]Fear of slave revolt had them developing faster [03:08.90]You a cataline killer ineloquent bastard [03:11.74]I would burn the white man while smelling the ashes [03:14.58]From time to time white man was part of the resistance [03:17.39]White indentured servants wanted no part of the system [03:20.41]King Philip's War showed that if people would listen [03:23.02]That they can maybe break [03:24.09]The complex chain of oppression [03:26.00]Tyranny is tyranny but that's a concession [03:28.86]But the women they was treated [03:30.21]Like that of possessions [03:31.84]Black women had it worse cause they was abused [03:34.61]That's the white justification of Aryan blues [03:37.55]The next move was to dominate the Mexicans [03:40.10]James Polk dominated them like they was next of kin [03:43.04]He sent Colonel Cross to lie to them and let them in [03:46.02]11 days later his skull was crushed so message sent [03:48.87]We take nothing by conquest that was the mantra [03:50.95] [03:51.71]The military wasn't human they was just monsters [03:54.59]Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes [03:57.41]Denounced the Mexican War and got locked in shackles [04:00.39]The twentieth century opened anger reemerged [04:03.10]The reality of ordinary life was being heard [04:06.10]Anarchists and feminists came from factory work [04:08.90]Communism socialism seemed to be re-birthed [04:11.77]War is the health of the state is what Bourne said [04:14.54]And if you was born around that time you was born dead [04:17.36]The Espionage Act had people confused [04:19.71] [04:20.32]Cause it was double talk and [04:21.40]They didn’t know how it’d be used [04:23.14]Supposedly it was an act against buying [04:25.76]Dubois knew that that was ******** and they was lying [04:28.30] [04:29.19]Charles Schenck was arrested in Philadelphia [04:31.07]For printing and distributing leaflets [04:32.56]Cause they was helping ya [04:34.04] [04:34.67]He was indicted tried and then found guilty [04:37.48]And spent six months in jail don’t that sound silly [04:40.47]Had his freedom taken away by his own nation [04:43.34]But there’s a lesson do not submit to intimidation [04:45.48] [04:46.04]The act still exists today and the **** is real [04:48.95]Supposedly Kennedy tried to have that **** appealed [04:51.73]Eugene Debs did ten years for no purpose [04:54.54]He obstructed the recruiting and enlistment service [04:57.66]The post office started taking mail privileges [04:59.76] [05:00.35]Of magazines who printed anti-war sentiments [05:03.12]A Socialist named Fairchild had it right [05:06.03]He said that they can shoot me [05:07.30]But they can’t make me fight [05:08.70]They sentenced him to a year in jail [05:10.80]And that was reckless [05:12.01]65 000 men conscientious objectors [05:14.07] [05:14.62]They were sent to army bases to work there [05:17.21]They were treated sadistically and were hurt there [05:20.35]They were strangled with the hemp rope til they collapsed [05:23.12]And officers punched they stomach and they lower back [05:25.96]A garden hose was placed on they face with a nozzle [05:28.84]About six inches from them so they couldn’t swallow [05:31.82]The war ended in nineteen hundred and eighteen [05:34.46]The government was just trying to wipe the slate clean [05:37.31]Hemingway wrote Farewell to Arms [05:40.07]Dalton Trumbo wrote Johnny Got His Gun [05:42.88]The war was over but they didn’t learn they lesson [05:45.76]Twin tactics of control reform and repression [05:48.55]The patriotic fervor of war had been invoked [05:51.69]That’s why the country [05:52.67]That you live in is a ******* JOKE [05:54.70] [05:56.09]You cannot be neutral on a moving train [05:57.93] [05:59.53]This is a story about the lies [06:01.75]That your teacher told you [06:02.92] [06:04.59]This is real actual factual [06:06.20] [06:09.90]No lies in the whole record [06:11.62] [06:12.84]If you don’t believe me look it up [06:15.79] [06:16.49]I’m trying to share the **** [06:17.63]That I learned with y'all [06:19.37] [06:21.18]Do the knowledge [06:22.01] [06:23.47]Your government does not care about you [06:24.92] [06:27.12]The people in power do not care about you [06:29.50] [06:31.34]Understand that [06:32.02] [06:33.13]Power to the people