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Correct A Power Governments Cannot Suppress Lyrics
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Correct A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
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[Intro] 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 because they really care about us They don't care about us [Verse 1: Vinnie Paz] 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 But [?] guaranteed that he wouldn't The 80's were the triumph of upperclass America Ascendancy of the rich, the poor he would bury ya [Verse 2: Vinnie Paz] 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 [Verse 3: Vinnie Paz] 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 [Verse 4: Vinnie Paz] 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 [Verse 5: Vinnie Paz] Bush verse Gore, that was your decision Both support the death penalty and broke the prisons Need Iran 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 [Outro] 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
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