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  • Posted by tohar1 2 years, 6 months ago
    If you need a little heavy metal in your life (& who doesn't) check out the great "Tree Of Liberty" song/video from a few years ago...Your quote is featured quite a few times...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBS3s...
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    • Posted by Steven-Wells 2 years, 6 months ago
      The pictures in the metal video suggest that they don't have a clear idea of who are the patriots and who are the tyrants.
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      • Posted by tohar1 2 years, 6 months ago
        Pretty sure this was something someone else did as the band didn't produce any official videos. That said, they are "real deal" liberty-first individuals. Jon Schaffer was arrested in the January 6 "riots" at the capitol building. He was also one of the founding members of the Oath Keepers group.
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      • Posted by $ DriveTrain 2 years, 6 months ago
        Yeah, sometimes the presentation of images is a little confusing, and even with my disgust for GWB, putting him back-to-back with Obama was a little sloppy. But the guy got it right, mostly - I'm particularly happy that he's made the connection between the "green" cult and the potential for global totalitarianism under the "UN."

        Musically... As a guitar-based Hard-Rock fanatic I'm liking the rhythm guitar lots, but the vocal - though it avoids the fingernails-on-chalkboard deal-killer '90s relic that is the Cookie Monster Vocal Distortion Processor - is almost comical in its macho-profundo roar. Nonetheless, kudos to the band for hammering this out without sounding too preachy. I would've totally dug this as a teenager with a head full of quickly-solidifying principles and a thirst for all things Square Wave. And at 1:31 we see that the man has positively excellent taste in guitar engineering: The real-deal Gibson Flying V (guitar porn - :drools:)

        As someone whose love of Hard Rock remains undiminished - also as an Objectivist - I've become an advocate for that rarity of rarities, the niche of "benevolent sense-of-life Hard Rock." Stuff like UFO, Ronnie Montrose (RIP,) the Scorps, pretty much everything Michael Schenker, "Genesis"-era Light Bringer, the ShakaLabbits, Muvidat (which is 'Labbits reborn, kinda,) Tears of Tragedy (mixed malevolent-benevolent premises but Haruka-chan Can Do No Wrong,) Galneryus, Egoist, Doll$Boxx (Koga-san rules,) Daida Laida... And of course Big Ass from Thailand - do a YT search for "Gu Mai Ru," and เชิดสิงโต ("Cherd Singto,") or if you want the Full Monty, copy/paste "Big Ass HormonesTheSeries" at YT to hear "Daen Neremit" live at the 2012 Big Mountain Festival. And if you still finance Netflix, go watch "Hormones" - that's the whole cast in front row, BTW.

        Anyhow, thanks for the link, tohar1.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 2 years, 6 months ago
    If the executive orders and mandates of the JB administration become more oppressive I believe it will be time to go "John Wick" on them all!
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