This Machine Kills Fascists

[ZoCrowes]

In honor of Woody Guthrie I just put this on my geetar








Let's have a hootenanny whooowheeeee

[SHRED]

1. Nice

And good timing considering the political/corporate landscape.

[ZoCrowes]

6. I'm waiting to see if it pisses anybody off

I occasionally do acoustic sets at a local coffee house and I do Dylans "With God On Our Side" which helped to piss off a psycho fundie whack job. Whats nice about this is that anyone it offends admits to being a fascist lol

[SHRED]

29. Might not

Most fascists don't even realize they are one!

[NightTrain]

2. Good for you, buddy!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[davepc]

3. this one does too

[ZoCrowes]

4. Well that one killed em in a different way

But both seem to get the job done

[Prodemsouth]

7. Sorry, Davepc's is more effective. A guitar didn't bring Hitler or

Mussolini down.

[ZoCrowes]

9. Not saying a guitar did

Woody was talking bout American fascists.

[Prodemsouth]

10. Gotta Respect Woody..your doing good. Are you going to put it on

when you play in public.

[ZoCrowes]

12. Oh hell yes

Right next to my American flag peace symbol button on my coat.

[Prodemsouth]

13. Not too many yung uns like you out there these days fella at least in

my neck of the woods. They were a dime a dozen when I was way too young to hang out with them.

[ZoCrowes]

16. Im a throwback

always have been. Ever since I was a kid (10 yrs old or so) I've dug music and the stuff that really appealed to me always came from pre-1975. I'm not a neo-hippie or whatever though. I think most of those guys are poser jackasses who are more into the scene than the music but I digress (I could ramble on all day.)

There are a lot of people around my age out there who share my world view so hopefully we can set the world right.

[Prodemsouth]

17. I had a coffee shop 7 years ago- would have loved to have you play

there back then if you were in the ATL, GA,.

[ZoCrowes]

19. Well

I would say my performance skills at 13 were not up to what they are today. I was too busy sitting in my room hunched over my CD player trying to figure out the intro to Cream's version Outside Woman Blues

[Radical Activist]

22. A guitar didn't put them in power either

or help them kill millions like the guns did.

[davepc]

26. Fascists didn't seize power via the gun, they did it via the vote.

[Radical Activist]

37. So the gun isn't the only way to seize or overthrow power

I agree.
Here are a few other examples that you are probably aware of anyway.
http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/histnonviol.html

[Prodemsouth]

35. So lets shoot back with guitars I guess is what your saying.

n/t

[Radical Activist]

36. Yes that's exactly what I'm saying.

:eyes:
Or you can try what they did in Denmark.

http://www.peachtree-online.com/Yellow_Star_no_art/Adults/resistance.adult.htm

Following Germany's attack on Denmark in 1940, the Danish government remained intact and life continued much as it had before Germany's invasion. However, as months passed, the Danes tired of the Nazi presence. Dissatisfaction rose throughout 1942 and an organized resistance movement formed in the spring of 1943, which culminated in the mass rescue of Danish Jews in October 1943.

[Prodemsouth]

39. Then you advocate letting people get their asses stomped..that we may

triumph in the end. Sorry one of those asses might be my own. I am not going to wait for you to persuade people. Hopefully others will not buy your arguments as well. This is why Americans don't trust the left. Americans do not trust us to handle their security needs. After reading your post I would not want you in charge of my protection either. Let the fascist takeover is what I read in your post. Lets just surrender like good Defeatist Elitist. Or just sit around and sing folk songs. With regard to Denmark: The Axis were preoccupied with the nations that were actually fighting. As long as a country just let them in and did not make a fuss sure life would go on as before to a degree. The Danes were not doing anything of measurable success until almost at the end of the war. I don't wait until more people become tired .. to fight. I am sure some of those Danes and Jews are not here to talk about what happened in Denmark during that time. We are on complete different playing fields here on this issue.

[Radical Activist]

40. But the fascists did take over

Look at Bush and the people in power today. How did that happen? They persuaded people just like Hitler did. World War 2 failed to stop fascism. It lives on today. So does oppression, dictatorship, genocide and all the evils we were supposedly fighting against. You're short sighted.

[Prodemsouth]

41. And how did the fascist takeover? They persuaded people that they

could handle their security- that they could protect them. Defeated Germany liked Hitler because he projected strength. After America was hit in the world trade center Bush was sold to the American people as a guy who was no nonsense when it came to the security of this country. You are missing the point of my post. You and your ilk are the ones who are short sighted, because you don't want to play smart politics and that is one reason why the fascist DID take over.

[Radical Activist]

43. No, I got your point

and tried to point out that there is another way, which you refuse to consider. Don't you think it would have been effective to make a stronger argument for the fact that attacking Iraq made us less safe? Kerry did use that argument occasionally.

But the fact is people will never view Democrats as more violent than Bush. We have to win on other issues and we might do well by suggesting that blowing the shit out of everybody only reaps more violence directed back at the US. People like me are the ones pointing out the idiocy of the fact that we armed a dictator like Saddam and we're still arming other dictators today. Don't you think its time to stop making the same stupid mistakes and end the cycle? Trying to be more Republican than the Republicans is not smart politics. You can't defeat fascism my mimicking the fascists.

[davepc]

20. it takes both

[Prodemsouth]

5. Now your talking..no joke.. I like yours better.

n/t

[Gemini Cat]

14. That works for me!

:evilgrin:
I can't play the guitar.

[gmoney]

8. Like Woody's poster, too...

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim, too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.

I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

I could hire out to the other side, the big money side. And get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you’ve not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve to death before I’d sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.

-Woody Guthrie

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/woodyguthrie/shop/en-us/dept_12.html

[ZoCrowes]

11. Damn thats cool

I've been aware of him for years and its only been within the past year or so that I have really sat down and listened to the guys music and his words. I'm currently reading Bound For Glory and all I can say is wow.


The famous Dylan later ripped off lol

[Baja Margie]

15. Go Johnny, Go !

[Prodemsouth]

18. I love that picture did they have a music video for that one too.

n/t

[Baja Margie]

21. Not that I know of

I wish they did darnit anyways !

[Radical Activist]

23. I always liked those stickers

I also like Pete Seegers version that he still uses on his banjos. This Machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender. I think it said fascists in the 40's back when he played with Woody. I wonder whose version came first.

[ZoCrowes]

32. My guess would be Woody

Woody was more Seeger's mentor so I would assume Woody had it first. I could be wrong though.

[WilliamPitt]

24. I have that phrase tattooed across my back

Up between the shoulders. Good words.

[Radical Activist]

25. You're so full of shit!

Do you really?

[WilliamPitt]

31. Hand to God

Inch-high black block letters in the center of my shoulder blades. There are DUers who have seen it. Ask matcom.

[Radical Activist]

34. That's awesome!

Great tat. I really wasn't sure if you were joking or not.

[VelmaD]

33. I can vouch...

he got drunk and showed the Texas DUers the last time he was down in Austin.

[ronzo]

27. I'm buyin' that...

:D

[jukes]

28. as does this:

never learned guitar, but...
unfortunately, i think we'll need both soon.

props to Woody, though. and we need more like him. guys w/ my talents were churned out by the thousands. we grow on fricking trees.

[obreaslan]

30. That's so funny, I had that on my guitar when I was in high school....

This was in the late 80's and early 90's. No one understood it, and they were more confused after I explained it. It's funny how it makes more sense today, than it did in 1989. People were different then, and I think they are more aware now.

"The churches was jammed, and the churches was packed,
An' that dusty old dust storm blowed so black.
Preacher could not read a word of his text,
An' he folded his specs, an' he took up collection,
Said:
So long, it's been good to know yuh;
So long, it's been good to know yuh;
So long, it's been good to know yuh.
This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home,
And I got to be driftin' along."

[jus_the_facts]

38. WHOOOOWHEEEEE!!!!

*ahem*

:hi:

[henslee]

42. Stud. Go for it.