Joel
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [this just in from the right-wing PR machine]
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 11 January 2011
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> RADICAL LEFTIST PUNK BAND INSPIRED ACCUSED GUNMAN
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> Conducting interviews on this topic is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Senior Managing Director in the Financial Services Group at Gilford Securities as well as a senior staff writer for WND.com, Dr. Jerome Corsi.
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> Author Profile and Information, Click Here: http://www.redalert.wnd.com
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> Lyrics: 'Difference from Nazis is someone tried to stop them'
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> By Jerome R. Corsi
> (c) 2011 WorldNetDaily
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> Loughner, 22, is in custody accused of opening fire into a crowd in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and critically wounding Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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> Understand what's happening to America's culture and what you can do to fight it with "How Evil Works," autographed, from the WND Superstore.
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> Almost immediately after the news of the shooting broke, Caitie Parker self identified on Twitter that she had gone to school and been in a band with Loughner:
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> Link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=249741
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> Then, in responding to "anderosa," Parker made clear that Loughner "was a pot head & into rock like Hendrix, The Doors, Anti-Flag:"
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> Link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=249741
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> "Anderosa" is the Twitter username for Anthony DeRosa, an employee of Reuters Media, who has had a history of tweeting continuing attacks on Fox News and Fox News talk show hosts Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, as well as a wide range of conservative media and political figures.
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> In responding to a variety of twitter posters, Parker identified being a band member with Loughner in "an alternative band":
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> Here is the old photograph of Loughner that Parker found from her high school yearbook:
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> Link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=249741
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> Publishing Parker's tweets, James King of the Phoenix New Times confirmed that Parker and Loughner went to school together at Mountain View High School in Tucson and that both attended Pima Community College.
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> Anti-Flag echoed Loughner's themes, posted in his YouTube channel, of mind control and antipathy to the U.S. flag in "Red, White and Brainwashed," a theme to the group's 1996 album entitled "Die for the Government."
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> The lyrics:
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> They use the flag to control us
> Brainwash us to be their patrotic slaves
> Programs our minds by controlling what we learn
> The only difference from the nazis is that
> Someone tried to stop them
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> The government says they're working for us
> Just as long as we increase their pay
> But the minute they get into office we're a has-been
> A yesterday
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> The red stands for the blood of all the people
> We've slain
> The white for this racist, bigoted foundation
> The blue for your aryan eyes - all empty
> Empty because you're taught to bow down to the man
> Fly that flag, that flag of freedom
> Do what you can for your country
> Go and fight their wars for them
> They're not following in our footsteps,
> KILL THEM!
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> They call that being a patriot
> I just call it ignorant
> If you don't fight to make things better
> Then you're the one betraying the country
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
> RED WHITE AND BRAINWASHED
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> Anti-Flag's song "Free Nation?" from their 1999 album entitled "A New Kind of Army," echoed themes that should be familiar to anti-war protesters with a radical political consciousness that traces back to the 1960s.
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> Here are the lyrics to "Free Nation?"
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> State official talks of freedom
> THEY-TALK!
> In this country that we live in
> THEY-TALK!
> Free to be harassed and be beaten by the pigs
> YOUR RIGHTS? NO RIGHTS!
> Till you're f------ broken, crippled, or until you're f------ DEAD!
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> YEAH!
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> They pass laws unfair to gays
> THEIR-WORK
> And separatist laws to keep the non-whites in their place
> THEIR-WORK
> Family values as a smoke screen blowing in your face
> THEIR TRUTH? NO TRUTH!
> Family values isn't something that shouldn't be based on hate
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> Based on hate...
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> Justice presides over them, late into the night,
> A blind fold covering their eyes, but something isn't right...
> Under their arms, there are shackles on her legs
> And the hands that once held up her scales are bound,
> Are bound in chains!
> Bound in chains...
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> And behind their closed door, they conspire through the night
> MORE WORK? SICK WORK!
> And they won't stop until this nation is all straight and all white!
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> NO!!
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> They call it a free nation... but all it is, is A NAZI NATION!!!
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> The song "Free Nation?" was evidently so popular that Anti-Flag included it again, in their 2002 album entitled "Mobilize."
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> Or, perhaps Loughner drew inspiration from a song entitled "We Are the One" on their 2009 album "The People or the Gun," a song that appears to have borrowed from a theme developed in the "Matrix" movie trilogy, a theme Barack Obama wove into his 2008 presidential campaign.
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> Here are the lyrics from "We Are the One":
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> It's time to make a move,
> Change the times or they'll change you.
> False promises of more.
> Check that s--- at the door.
> We're the ones we've been waiting for.
> We are the one...Unified under none.
> We are the one...The one to carry on.
> Warfare is everywhere.
> Poisoned land, water, air.
> This routine is long old.
> It's time to break that mold.
> We'll break it up, then we'll break out.
> Withstand the change.
> Tear it down rebuild again.
> Evolve with vision.
> This year's eve, we will breathe fury.
> I will scale the city walls.
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> Reviewers typically describe Anti-Flag as violent punk rock anti-government political music that derives its rhetoric from the radical left.
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> In an interview with Punxrukus.blogspot.com, Justin Cathal Geever, who goes by the stage name Justin Sane, Anti-Flag's guitarist and lead singer/songwriter, summed up the theme behind Anti-Flag as follows: "The idea behind Anti-Flag is to bring down the false barriers that are put in place by people in power around the world. We think that Patriotism and Nationalism - they're imaginary boundaries that are being set up by the people in power that divide the masses. We want to break down those barriers and bring people together. Instead of having different flags around the world, to have people united under one flag."
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> ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books THE OBAMA NATION: LEFTIST POLITICS AND THE CULT OF PERSONALITY and the co-author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND: SWIFT BOAT VETERANS SPEAK OUT AGAINST JOHN KERRY. He is also the author of AMERICA FOR SALE, THE LATE GREAT U.S.A., and WHY ISRAEL CAN'T WAIT. Currently, Dr. Corsi is a Senior Managing Director in the Financial Services Group at Gilford Securities as well as a senior staff writer for WorldNetDaily.com.
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