If This Song Doesn't Get Ya…
I'm not sure what will #FreedomMusicFriday
If you’re on our side—and you know what I mean by that, and you know who you are—then I guarantee you are going to love “Organized Crime” by Brendan Daniel. Even if you don’t really like folk music, just sit back and dig the lyrics. You’ll see.
This is exactly what I mean when I say that the freedom movement needs a folk tradition, just the way the hippies had back in the 60s. Our music can be more than just folkie folk music, of course, but that is needed as a baseline. Folk songs can be sung around a campfire. Folk songs become standards.
I am not going to overload you with preamble here. The lyrics speak for themselves. All I will do is offer a couple of related pieces for further reading:
We're Not Allowed to Do These Things…but Our Masters Are.
What Is the Bill of Rights REALLY Saying?
The Day I Forced My Wife to Marry Me
What If We Just Said NO?
There was no place online where the complete lyrics were provided, so I took the liberty of creating a transcript myself. I hope I got it all right, and that Brendan won’t mind.
Follow along as you listen. Or just listen.
Trust me.
Organized Crime
by Brendan Daniel
I don't think that this ever existed,
Put the cart before the horse—
The six-foot point of distance
And the damage that's been done.
The government,
The gun that shoots to save us.
And I don't need the pills and vaccinations.
I got all the air to breathe,
The sunshine on my face
Is just like medicine to me.
Why do we compete with Mother Nature?
Well, war is hell—
A weapon of taxation.
It's been poisoning the well.
I wonder how they made it
So that we could hardly tell
The difference between slavery and salvation.
All through the turning,
All through the turning of time—
Let's call it what it is:
It's organized crime.
All through the turning,
All through the turning of time—
Let's call it what it is:
It's organized crime.
For it's easier to trick somebody
Than it is to convince them
That they've been tricked.
So pick your tribe,
But your choice is an illusion.
It's just two sides of the toss:
The red one and the blue one.
Yeah, they'll televise the fight
And demonetize the revolution.
Well, history is written by the victors.
It's the killing of the king,
The sacrificial victim,
And the club they that you’re not in—
The power that's corrupted absolutely.
All through the turning,
All through the turning of time—
Let's call it what it is:
It's organized crime.
There's only three things,
Three things that no one can hide:
It's the sun, and the moon,
And the truth—
About organized crime.
Hat tip to Andrej Uličný and Etienne de la Boetie2 for showcasing and introducing me to this great artist.
If you hadn't posted the lyrics, I'd be hard pressed to understand them from his singing style. I wonder if he really has that drawl in everyday conversations or if he added it for effect. Lyrics are right on. GOVERNMENT is nothing BUT organized crime. "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederick Bastiat
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
https://www.courageouslion.us/p/the-law-2024
Not many protest songs these days when they're needed more than ever! This is not the 1st one you drew our attention to Christopher. Thank you!
I'm just starting to write a new blog article with much more to come beyond these opening paragraphs;
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND A-BOM-i-NATIONS OF THE EARTH.
To: Seekers of Truth!
The fingers of the divine hand are writing again. The Biblical word "abominations" appears 72 times in the Old Testament, but only twice in the New Testament, both in The Revelation of Jesus Christ from where this article title comes. This Material World still operates by terms and conditions of the Old Testament, with only a small minority of Individuals living by the Grace of Christ Jesus of the New Testament.
Twenty-six centuries ago, in the gilded halls of Babylon, King Belshazzar defied heaven itself. He desecrated sacred vessels, raising stolen temple goblets, along with 1000 of the financial, business and political elites of the kingdom, in a toast to the false gods of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, and stone (Daniel 5:4). From then to now, It's the Economy, Stupid! Ancient Babylon, now called Iraq, was the 1st Biblical model of a Military-Economic Superpower, the US being the latest, greatest of them all in Human History.
As the wine blurred his vision and the revelry roared, a spectral hand materialized, etching into the palace plaster a chilling prophecy: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN—"You have been weighed, measured, and found wanting." That very night, ancient Babylon, deemed impregnable, fell. Its judgment was swift, a spectacular end for its spiritual prostitution and its abominable violence. Discerning the 2600 year old Prophecy of Daniel 12 resonates in this World TODAY, "it will be a time of distress that never was since a nation existed until that time [...] And you, Daniel, close up the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many will run to and fro, and the knowledge will increase.
That ancient prophecy was updated by The Kansas City Times September 13, 1976, publishing this historical Newspaper record, "He came to town for the Republican National Convention and will stay until the election in November TO DO GOD'S BIDDING: To tell the World, from Kansas City, this country has been found wanting and its days are numbered [...] He gestured toward a gleaming church dome. “The gold dome is the symbol of BABYLON,” he said.” [...] He wanted to bring to the Public’s attention an “idea being put out subtly and deceptively” by the government that we have to get prepared for a War with Russia.”
That 1976 FUTURE is NOW with the Revelation of the details GENERALLY unfolding in the spirit of the letter. The World is waking up to see Americans may hasten “its days are numbered” part of the 1976 Vision, and waits with bated breath.
Knowledge has increased to the point Humans have within their Power, and now at the precipice, to kill us all with A-bombs!
If you listened and analyzed the prognostications of the Presidents and Prime Ministers at the G-7 and the NATO Summit last month, all they see before them is WAR, even if the majority of people don't want it. They don't have the courage of President Kennedy, who grasped like no others, how close this World came to WWIII/ARMAGEDDON during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Having decided to change the US attitude of confrontation, to a genuine Good Faith Diplomatic way forward to achieve a genuine Peace with the Soviet Russians, that made him say in 1963, "Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy–or of a collective death-wish for the world.”
None of the kings of the Earth who were at the G-7 & NATO have the Profile of Courage of a John Kennedy. He finally got the Spirit of Blessed are the Peace Makers, and called for Genuine Peace.
From the Dr. Strangeloves at the Pentagon and powerful people working behind the scenes the Public never sees, wanting Confrontation and WAR, he knew his life was at risk going against the US Deep State.
Now that Germany agreed to buy the Patriot Missiles from the US to give to Ukraine, I think Trump's ambivalence toward NATO was all an act to get NATO to agree to increase spending and buy more US weapons.