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Lyrics to "Know Your Rights" by the Clash. Hillarious and awesome at the same time :)
Combat Rock | Jan 1982 | Joe Strummer

Posted on 08/07/2009 4:51:51 AM PDT by disenfranchised agitator

This is a public service announcement WITH GUITARS! Know your rights... ALL THREE OF THEM!

Number 1 You have the right not to be killed Murder is a crime! Unless it was done by a Policeman or aristocrat politicians, and billionares Know your rights

And number 2 You have the right to food money Providing of course you Dont mind a little compulsory computor Investigation, humiliation And if you cross your fingers Rehabilitation

Know your rights These are your rights

Know these rights

Number 3 You have the right to free Speech as long as youre not Dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights These are your rights All three of em It has been suggested In some quarters that even these are considered EXCESSIVE! Well..............................

Get off the streets Get off the streets Run dont you have a home to go to? Smush

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent You are warned that anything you say CAN AND WILL be taken down And used as evidence against you

Listen to this YOUNG OFFENDERS! KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: ib4z; noob; ramones; theclash; zot
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1 posted on 08/07/2009 4:51:51 AM PDT by disenfranchised agitator
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To: disenfranchised agitator; darkwing104; Old Sarge

Looks like we got a live one here.

Nice vanity, newby...


2 posted on 08/07/2009 5:01:21 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: disenfranchised agitator

Breaking news 27 years too late.


3 posted on 08/07/2009 5:01:50 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: disenfranchised agitator

The Clash were as lefty as they came. The Damned and The Pistols kicked their butt musically anyway!


4 posted on 08/07/2009 5:06:40 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: disenfranchised agitator

Strummer Jones et al forever!

I find it very ironic that to be a true punk these days you must oppose the very socialism that the UK punks (the Clash at least) were advocating.

Green Day are still protesting the Bush administration but like so many of their ilk they are making themselves irrelevant and obsolete by opposing what’s no longer there.

The next punk movement - and no doubt there will be one - will be libertarian in nature.


5 posted on 08/07/2009 5:07:11 AM PDT by relictele
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
The Damned and The Pistols kicked their butt musically anyway!

I would say the opposite. The Damned & Pistols had more energy but musically were as rough as guts.

'Talent' was almost a dirty word in the world of punk but the Clash's seamless moves from raw punk to shimmering pop were done without 'sacrificing principles' as Joe Strummer might put it. Mick Jones was a peerless talent then and now.

6 posted on 08/07/2009 5:08:59 AM PDT by relictele
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To: disenfranchised agitator
Live version, with Mick Jones
7 posted on 08/07/2009 5:09:11 AM PDT by Rocko (Mymindisaragingtorrent,floodedwithrivuletsofthoughtcascadingintoawaterfallofcreativealternatives.)
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To: disenfranchised agitator

The old hippie anthem “For What It’s Worth” doesn’t seem so remote and distant today...

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down


8 posted on 08/07/2009 5:11:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
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To: relictele

What can I say - I much prefer rough and energetic.


9 posted on 08/07/2009 5:18:30 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

The Damned were more fun/campy to listen to, The Pistols were just awful.


10 posted on 08/07/2009 5:21:35 AM PDT by ffusco (The President will return this country to what it once was...An arctic wasteland covered in ice.)
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To: ffusco; GodBlessRonaldReagan

What about The Ramones?


11 posted on 08/07/2009 5:22:48 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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12 posted on 08/07/2009 5:27:32 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
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To: Grizzled Bear

The Ramones are the kings of all!!!!


13 posted on 08/07/2009 5:30:07 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: disenfranchised agitator
I liked the Clash. "Rock the Casbah" is still a great song.


14 posted on 08/07/2009 5:32:24 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: disenfranchised agitator
With this weird, incoherent screed, I'm guessing your drug of choice is crystal meth. Am I right?


15 posted on 08/07/2009 5:33:15 AM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Number 1 You have the right not to be killed Murder is a crime! Unless it was done by a Policeman or aristocrat politicians, and billionares Know your rights

Let us put the reality into these rights: You have the right not to be killed by terrorists flying planes into buildings and thugs who want to steal what you have earned so they can buy drugs. You have the right not to be killed by drunken illegal alien drivers or drug gangs doing “drive-by shootings.” You have the right not to be killed by idiots supporting laws that give those who would try to kill you more rights than you have. You have the right not to be killed by people who have intentionally contracted HIV/AIDS and other deadly diseases lying to pollute the nation’s blood supply.

And number 2 You have the right to food money Providing of course you Dont mind a little compulsory computor Investigation, humiliation And if you cross your fingers Rehabilitation

A little more reality for these rights: You have the right to food money Providing of course… you earn that money through an honest pursuit. You do not have the right to food money taken by force or threat of force or extortion by government sanctions on citizens who do not charitably want to give it you unless you meet the criteria these people set for their gifts.

Number 3 You have the right to free Speech as long as youre not Dumb enough to actually try it.

Yet more reality for these rights: You have the right to free Speech as long as you realize that freedom under discussion is from government interference. You have the right to free Speech as long as you realize that there may be consequences from the exercise of this freedom from sources other than government. You have the right to free Speech as long as you realize that there are reasonable limits on this freedom.
16 posted on 08/07/2009 5:34:11 AM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: Old Sarge; disenfranchised agitator
W. T. F.

I have a feeling we will smell ozone in the near future.

17 posted on 08/07/2009 5:34:49 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: disenfranchised agitator
Put down the Bong and step slowly away from your keyboard.


18 posted on 08/07/2009 5:35:09 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: disenfranchised agitator
Get out of your mommy's basement (after cleaning up all the pizza boxes, dope and garbage) and try to get a job. Earning money is a good thing. It just might make something of yourself instead of showing how much an idiot you are by posting this drivel on the Internet. You are a fool. And by doing this you're proving it to millions of people. I'd say grow up, but I'm not sure you're sufficiently cognizant to understand the meaning of those two simple words.

ZOT!


19 posted on 08/07/2009 5:36:59 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama Administration: The Whizzers of Oz)
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To: Condor51; Old Sarge; disenfranchised agitator

Did you read this guy’s home page? What a bunch of drivel. He’s clueless about himself, the world and life in general. What a waste of human ability (I’m giving him some degree of intelligence, however romote).


20 posted on 08/07/2009 5:44:05 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama Administration: The Whizzers of Oz)
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