This is another example of why the 1980's was the greatest decade for independent underground American music. An era for labels like Homestead, SST, Touch and Go and so many others including Taang! Records who would release Moving Targets' seminal Burning in Water LP. The late Pat Brady should be in the Drumming Hall of Kings, check him out on the Brave Noise song, Into the Forest at 4:51.. Great songs by a great band who have been overlooked by far too many for far too long.
"Mere passive citizenship is not enough. Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from those who are aggressive for what is wrong."
Leaders lead. They don't crawl at the feet of military contractors who spend millions lobbying to secure billions more in our tax dollars. Billions more for useless war and destroyed lives.
How many members of Congress will "honor the fallen" this weekend? Do you think you can fit another hypocritical flag-waving graveside photo shoot in or are you too busy playing golf with Lockheed Martin execs?
Lockheed Martin's Memorial Day Message:
"On Monday, Americans everywhere will pause to remember all those who have given their lives so that we – and untold generations to follow – may live in freedom. We owe these patriots, and all those serving in the armed forces today, our eternal gratitude for defending the sacred principles upon which this nation was founded. We know that you will join us this Memorial Day in honoring the service and sacrifice of our fallen heroes, and in finding ways to thank the men and women in uniform protecting us today."
Bill Ward is unhinged on this slab of Sab. Ozzy is in peak form. Watch this clip if only to remember why Ozzy is a legend. It damn sure aint his solo records. The perfect song to remind us that not everyone suffers during war, in fact some folks make a tidy profit from it:
Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler published a pamphlet version of his "War is a Racket" speech in 1935.
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
"The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation – it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted – to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get."
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
We must take the profit out of war.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.
