System of a Down "Hypnotize" with clips from last year's Iranian protests and this year's peaceful demonstrations in Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt.
A time of war is a time of protest and anti-government revolution in America. System of a Down (SOAD) is returns after five years for a series of concerts/consciousness-raising events. More so than in the 1960s, the people are increasingly disgusted with leaders who misread history or fabricate evidence for war, as U.S. Representative and Gandhi Peace Prize winner Dennis Kucinich points out (below). Buddhism is on the side of peace, and that includes demonstrating against war, standing firm for justice, and protesting government abuses.
Whereas the American people love peace, our government cannot seem to get enough war. It is currently fighting on five fronts -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and secretly in space, not to mention its ongoing war on truth. Who is fighting? It is not so much volunteers. Now the corps are made up of individuals tricked by "stop loss" clauses in contracts that ensure they will be called back against their will for repeated tours until the PTSD fully sets in or suicide seems like the only way out.
The unofficial shadow government is fighting a war against citizens on the domestic front -- through homeland spying, the sinking of the economy (which it seems to have already converted to permanent "war economy" according to Pacifica's Lila Garrett), the Republican takeover of state budgets (which for example in Wisconsin are not in crisis until tax giveaways to corporations are figured in) and constitutional protections.
Punishing the Truth-Tellers? Patriots across the political spectrum are finally seeing our government for what it is and how it regularly operates through deception and public relations (PsyOps) campaigns. This is reviving the anti-war slogan, "Fight war, not wars."
