“Gunship Politico” is sort of my own name for a gunboat diplomacy. Just the idea that if something’s wrong, trigger happy politicians resort to war. One thing that “Open Up” is sort of like it is the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, also known as the School of Assasins, and it’s like a way we basically trained dictatorships to fight against their communist rebels in their own countries like in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Only because we were scared of communists, we would train these guys all these torture tactics, and really we were behind a number of different terrible atrocities in Latin America. It’s just like mind-blowing once you get into it. It’s that kind of mentality that really pisses me off. As far as “Gunship Politico,” it sort of has to do with saying you trigger-happy politicians, “I hope you don’t get what you’re after,” which is basically war. Some of it also comes from the Aminu Dialo, again sort of racial profiling, you know killing a guy just because he’s reaching for his wallet; he looks like he may be threatening or something. That’s some of the lyrics. It sort of starts off as a guy writing from prison, writing a letter to whoever’s in charge. The political prisoner is writing a letter to the gunship politico. When it says, “you let loose on the running man,” it’s the different accounts of policemen terribly overstepping their authority and you know, shooting. Dialo is just the most famous case. That stuff happens a lot. Like Leonard Peltier or something. That kind of police arrogance. It’s pretty mind-boggling. It sort of comes from that, it’s basically a song decrying against violence. More of that there are other alternatives than shooting a guy with forty-one shots or us going into Iraq with our smart bombs."
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“Gunship Politico” is sort of my own name for a gunboat diplomacy. Just the idea that if something’s wrong, trigger happy politicians resort to war. One thing that “Open Up” is sort of like it is the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, also known as the School of Assasins, and it’s like a way we basically trained dictatorships to fight against their communist rebels in their own countries like in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Only because we were scared of communists, we would train these guys all these torture tactics, and really we were behind a number of different terrible atrocities in Latin America. It’s just like mind-blowing once you get into it. It’s that kind of mentality that really pisses me off. As far as “Gunship Politico,” it sort of has to do with saying you trigger-happy politicians, “I hope you don’t get what you’re after,” which is basically war. Some of it also comes from the Aminu Dialo, again sort of racial profiling, you know killing a guy just because he’s reaching for his wallet; he looks like he may be threatening or something. That’s some of the lyrics. It sort of starts off as a guy writing from prison, writing a letter to whoever’s in charge. The political prisoner is writing a letter to the gunship politico. When it says, “you let loose on the running man,” it’s the different accounts of policemen terribly overstepping their authority and you know, shooting. Dialo is just the most famous case. That stuff happens a lot. Like Leonard Peltier or something. That kind of police arrogance. It’s pretty mind-boggling. It sort of comes from that, it’s basically a song decrying against violence. More of that there are other alternatives than shooting a guy with forty-one shots or us going into Iraq with our smart bombs."
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hey, where did you find that quote? It's interesting. Thanks for posting.