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Did you understand what this country is under?
We're under attack!
America is under attack.
Terrorist plot to blow up passenger jets on flights from Britain to the U.S., but Neil Young says it's no big deal.
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The history of artists throughtout the centruies has been that they have taken a position in which they speak from the gods.
This country is at war.
They have a lot of nerve saying, "We're for the country and we're behind our servicemen," and then they do all kinds of crap like that.
If you've never been shot at or had to shoot somebody, you have no right to blame the government, 'cause they're smarter than you.
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A lot of peaple are just in a nightmare right now, wondering if their son's gonna get killed today, tomorrow or yesterday.
You're not supposed to get to the point where I'm at, where I'm almost like crazed with this political situation.
The more I think about it, the more upset I get.
What I should be doing is writing songs and focusing how to frame the issues in a way that people can understand them.
The music is what drives it.
That's what matters, you know?
You gotta have some fire.
You gotta have a reason for being there, or you don't have a reason for being there.
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午後2時から始まった「Peace Music Festa! From 辺野古'08」は終了予定午後8時という長丁場のコンサートでした。
大雨で出足は鈍かったのですが、午後6時、渋さ知らズオーケストラの頃には満員になりました。
トリがSOUL FLOWER UNION。
カチャーシーの大乱舞となりましたが、うまく踊れんのぉ。
♪ Come you masters of war
♪ You that build all the guns
♪ You that build the death planes
♪ You that build the big bombs
♪ You that hide behind walls
♪ You that hide behind desks
♪ I just want you to know
♪ I can see through your masks
Article 9.
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
2 In order to accomplish the aim of the proceeding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.