Amos Hart,

I see your point, and agree with you to the extent that such stories as those in the Bible would be helpful in teaching morality, ethics and love for one’s self, others and environment.  If the Bible were interpreted by the masses in the allagorical spirit it was written, yes, I too would be a proponent of using those stories. Unfortunately, the true esoteric meanings woven into these stories have been lost, buried and misconstrued by the true pimps and whores of history who, in their lust for power over men’s minds & souls, promulgated versions & meanings suited to their own ends.  All that remains today (for the most part) are pagans who worship the literal stories, just as those those in ancient times worshiped the physical sun, moon & stars. Keep in mind that science only answers the particular “How?” and never the universal “why?”.

Chaseme:
I see you did get your “education” at Columbia. You obviously listen to the Greatest Hits of the 19th Century and that old favorite, the Karl Marx Shuffle. Get a clue. The problem isn’t corporations or the media. It’s the people that run them, just as the problem with North Korea is the jerk that runs it. Go from capitalism to communism, or vice versa, and you still have corruption. What’s the common denominator? People. Either we have a long way to go on the ladder of evolution or there has to be another answer. Political change ain’t it.

Police too are listening to songs with the same lyrics. Do we blame lyrics when police “bust a cap” in innocent civilians? Do we blame lyrics when soldiers listen to “the roof is on fire, we don’t need no water let the MF burn” as they fire on innocent civilians in Iraq? Why is it the small people who seem to get hideous amounts of blame for their attempt to deal with the repulsive environments corporations create?

And, why is it that a lot of small people simply don’t have the courage or balls if you will, to stand up against corporations and their rape and torture of our environment, cultures and our futures? Are money, cars and clothes that important to us? These are the same corporations that influenced and encouraged this fictitious war in Iraq, for profit. These are the same corporations that created ghettos, for profit. These are the same corporations that promote the false consciousness of Americans through sports, which teaches militarism, sexism, authoritarianism and racism. These are the same corporations that promote the propaganda of death and destruction, emanating ceaselessly from the mass media, adding to the prevailing atmosphere of insecurity. Through our insecurities, the future becomes completely unpredictable. We have a sense of living in a world in which the past holds out no guidance to the present and immediate gratification holds no consequences.

If the courts are right, then there are consequences that derive from the music we listen to. In that case, what kind of music are they listening to? What kind of music is the bush administration listening to? What kind of music do corporate CEOs listen to? What kind of music does people like Ann Coulter listens to? Imagine that?

Hey, David, didn’t you know? Rappers and their pimps in the music industry are just products of purposeless, mindless evolution. They’re just tring to surive. What do honor, beauty, and nobility have to do with survival? Besides, those things are just in the eye of the beholder. In the rap culture, rape, murder, and mayhem are the preferred means of artistic expression. Honor, beauty, and nobility are just decadent Western values arising from religious myth and superstition. Your attitude is quite retro, my friend. Take some college courses at Columbia. Those profs will get your head straight faster than you can say Karl Marx. Yes, David, you too can be a rich and famous degenerate. All you have to do is convince yourself that you evolved from slime and are headed for oblivion. In that light, nothing really matters, does it?

Bad music is just as influential as good music.

When was the last time you saw people listening to ‘good’ music kissing and hugging along the way?

I think gangster rap lyrics and the lifestyles it promotes are extremely harmful to any society at large and inparticular, to influential individual - i.e teenagers.  Black, white, asian, hispanic...I have seen countless kids, middle class, rich, poor - whatever - trying to imitate them in thought and action.  Drugs, guns, and money. 

But art imitates life and vice versa.  The ghetto culture has infiltrated the burbs and the gated communities without being given so much as a billy club upside the head.  It has as a result, inadvertently, taken its revenge on its white oppressors. 

The ghetto is a product of racism and oppression, and desparate people do desparated things.  You can’t ask them to live the life they do and then shut up about it.  Song and poetry have always been the deepest forms of expressing one’s pain.  The problem is the media has made them the rock stars of the modern day.  The media, in their rush to make a buck, threw morality, judgement, and social responsibility out the window and made mega stars out of diseased, victimized & criminal minds, glamorized the culture and mass marketed it to teenagers.  Rock n roll was dangerous.  Can’t get much more dangerous than blowin someone else’s brains out over a dis!  Top that Elvis!

I’d never suggest censorship, and can’t blame the music industry for maximizing their profits (however selfish and irresponsible they may be) The only solution to offer is improving the ability of those in the ghetto to earn a respectable, legitimate living, and disseminating honorable, beautiful, nobel stories and ideals to our youth.

“undercover” cops deserve no sympathy. they operate as secret police, like the kind we believe fascist governments use. this country is rampant with disgusting people hiding behind a badge. if they die doing whatever it is they do they deserve to be dead,hopefully many more will follow. the only good cop is a dead one.

Cry against oppression my ass. Rap lyrics are a direct window into the shrunken souls of pimps, murderers, rapists, and assorted degenerates. They are, if anything, a cry against morality, decency and responsibility. To hell with it and those who promote and profit from it.

RE:  BIG’s 1994 hit “Ready To Die.” “As I grab the glock (sic), put it to your headpiece/One in the chamber, the safety is off release....”

From the “Glock Instructions For Use Manual: “ The Glock has no conventional, externally-located safety lever.  The safety is incorporated into the trigger in the form of a lever, and in the untouched state blocks the trigger from being moved backwards.  The Safe-Action trigger system offers the shooter the best possibility of getting off every shot quickly and without having to operate external safety devices.

I remember seeing a video of the BATF/FBI assault on the Branch Davidian Compound, where it shows one of the Agents climbing a ladder while attempting to remove his Glock from the holster.  In the process he accidently pulled the trigger and shot himself in the leg.  I thought it was hilarious. 

The moral of this story is never pemit savages or federal agents to carry firearms.

Uh, could someone get the cluephone to Asim? The reason why nobody mourns two dead pigs is because the pigs are nothing but murderers, thieves and liars. The pigs not only killed Sean Bell, but critically injured two of his friends. Afterwards, not only were these murderous pigs *not* put into handcuffs and given swift justice, but walked free as Sean Bell’s corpse and his two living friends *were* put into cuffs.

This case shows exactly why the pigs cannot and will not be shown ANY MERCY whatsoever, by ANYONE. Because when cops break the law, THERE IS NO LAW—only a fight for survival. It is the pigs or us, and I say the pigs have got to go.