Musician
sings against America
Gerry
Wachovsky
Ever
since the United States toppled Saddam Hussein's
regime
and freed the Iraqis from oppression, it
seems the liberal anti-war movement has
made itself more and more visible, each
outburst more outrageous than the last.
I noticed something over the weekend, however,
that irked me beyond belief about this movement
and what it seems to have become.
The
individual I am about to describe is hardly
a spokesperson for this movement, but I
believe the words he sings and the sentiment
he exudes speaks volumes about what many
leftist college students and militant college
clubs feel, even if they have never even
heard of the guy. The name of the man I
am referring to is singer/songwriter David
Rovics, a person who spends his time attending
rallies, protests, and other activist gatherings
and singing his anti-USA and anti-Bush drivel.
After reading this, ask yourself what the
liberal movement really stands for -- is
it spreading peace and equality, or indoctrination
and half-truths?
According
to the short biography on his Web site,
www.davidrovics.com, David Rovics dropped
out of college in his early twenties and
moved to the California hippie breeding-ground
Berkeley, where he met "anarchists,
Marxist intellectuals, tree-huggers,"
and a variety of other cretins. It was here
he began to write his music, which he refers
to as "songs of social significance."
I think the more appropriate name for them
would be "communist cries of social
nonsense." Either way, what really
disturbs me is not only the blatant contempt
and detestation this man has for the country
in which he lives, but the music with which
he demonstrates this abhorrence.
In
one album titled "Return" Rovics
includes a song called "Promised Land,"
which almost glorifies the suspected leader
of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers, Mohamad
Atta. Rovics claims, "Everyone can,
and must, be understood," and supposedly
wrote this song from the "perspective"
of Atta, but in light of his other works,
it is clear he feels compassion for the
member of al Qaeda. Sickeningly, Rovics
rationalizes the attack on the World Trade
Center, and sings, "So I will get in
this plane...And when it's in the air...To
your symbols of power...And our source of
despair...I'll look out through the cockpit...And
steady my hand...And I will meet you in
the promised land."
In
another album named "Hang A Flag In
The Window" Rovics praises the Earth
Liberation Front, an environmentalist terrorist
group in the United States, in "Song
For The ELF." In one verse, Rovics,
the enemy of capitalism, sings, "But
in such an ugly situation...So sinister
and dire...There's nothing quite so lovely...As
a Wal-Mart on fire." Now, I am not
a supporter of this particular chain of
stores, but I am a supporter of free enterprise,
something Rovics obviously knows nothing
about. He would rather cheer for ELF as
they burn down chain stores and car dealerships,
selfishly robbing the owners of their rights,
and doing it all in the name of the "social
good." What a piece of hypocrite trash
you are, Mr. Rovics.
In
another song titled "One Night In Greece,"
Rovics relates a "true story"
to his listeners that a friend of his told
him about a group of people in Greece, one
member of the group supposedly named Osama.
The small crowd apparently boarded a yacht
that was flying the American flag on Sept.
10, 2001, and tore it down, later using
it as toilet paper. Whether the story is
true or not, Rovics' sentiments are crystal
clear -- he absolutely despises this country
and everything that symbolizes it. My only
question to Rovics is this: who is making
you stay here?
I
could tell you more and more examples of
Rovics' anti-American songs, but you can
find them all on his Web site. The only
reason people like this exist is primarily
because of support from young people, or
more specifically, activist college students
and protest groups. I wonder how many members
of the Campus Progressives, the African
Student Union, or the Muslim Student Association
have heard of this man? I can only imagine.
Before
I end, I must urge you to do one small thing,
something David Rovics himself has authorized
on his Web site: "You are hereby encouraged
not only to buy [my] CDs, but to copy them
in part or whole, download and distribute
MP3's, sing the songs, photocopy part or
all of the songbooks, etc." Yes folks,
feel free to pirate his work, and hopefully
if enough of you do so, he will not have
a dime left to preach any more of his charlatan
idiocy.
Gerry
Wachovsky is a broadcast journalism student
at Cal State Long Beach and can be reached
at SenorBucho@aol.com.
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