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The tangled webs they weave span from Pine to Ruby Ridge, way back from Shay's defeat on up to Gustafsen (now cue the ass parade of ditto-heads and commissars and pricks to drown out this faintest threat of commie faggot heretics). Conclusion: the nail that sticks up gets hammered down and the master's finest tools are found slack-jawed and placid amidst the cacophony of screaming billboards and Disney-fied history. Sometimes the ties that bind are strange: no justice shines upon the cemetery plots marked Hampton, Weaver or Anna-Mae where Federal Bureaus and Fraternal Orders have cast their shadows; permanent features built into these borders. But undercover of the customary gap we find between History and Truth, the Founding Fathers bask in the rocket's blinding red glare. The bombs bursting in air. One nation. Indivisible? The truth is when the back-country learned of ratification the People had a coffin painted black and solemnly borne in funeral procession, they buried it deep in the earth as an emblem of the dissolution and internment of their Publick Liberty. Someday, somewhere, today's empires are tomorrow's ashes.
I'm pretty sure "Ana-Mae" is Ana-Mae Aquash a Native American political activist in the 1970s who was murdered. "Hampton" is Fred Hampton, member of the Black Panthers who was murder by the Chicago Police. And I think "Weaver" is Randy Weaver's wife and child who were killed when they tried to set up Randy (who was a white supremacist) for selling arms.
Not positive but they would make sense.
thanks was wondering about that.
thanks was wondering about that.
this is defenetly one of my favorite propagandhi songs
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we can only hope the last line is true fck living in the shadows of the usa
Does anyone know who Hampton, Weaver and Anna-Mae are? I'd love to know, but I haven't been able to find any info on them yet.
"they" in the Weaver case being the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They tried to entrap Randy into selling shotguns which he refused, then the U.S. Government killed his son and wife in a seige on their house.
"Frayed," not "strange".
"Sometimes the ties that bind are frayed"
no, the ties that bind are strange, not frayed
Im pretty sure the line is "the ties that bind restrain" not "are strange"
I always thought he said "Sometimes the ties that bind are STRAINED." But it's not. It's definitely STRANGE. Seems all of the official lyrics are posted on the bands site.: propagandhi.com/lyrics/album/todays-empires-tomorrows-ashes