If you believe this imbecile will earn more than six dollars-an-hour as long as he lives, you're as delusional as him. What a fuckin' pathetic goofball!
This guy is a hypocritical piece of shit parasite on society. Bush was shot down twice so you could sit in your room and record your little songs that sound like they were taken straight out of a children's book.
I used to love you guys, and the entire crust anarch scene. But I had to grow up and so do you guys. You can live without private property or capitalism if you want but trying to impose or allowing the STATE to impose your ideas is immoral and ostensibly against your own stated principals. The collectives like the land trusts and communes and "free spaces" and punk houses are fun and do interesting things but they can't survive without paying the rent.
@AynManRand How is the state imposing anarchist ideas? And how can capitalism operate without imposing upon people? A few hundred years ago there was no concept of land ownership in America. That idea was imposed upon the native people of this land by force, & they were chained up by the millions and hauled off to lands that were already occupied by other people. The exact meaning of most of your comment is rather fuzzy, so I'll leave it at that.
@AynManRand How is the state imposing anarchist ideas? And how can capitalism operate without imposing upon people? A few hundred years ago there was no concept of land ownership in America. That idea was imposed upon the native people of this land by force, & they were chained up by the millions and hauled off to lands that were already occupied by other people. The exact meaning of most of your comment is rather fuzzy, so I'll leave it at that.
@DevonWhorton Green "standards" are being championed by the US government, Cap and Trade is being sold-literally- as the answer to environmental degradation. Meanwhile large corporations will use these regulations as a barrier to protect there market share from competitors, like they always do.
Yaaaaawn. Is this loser done yet? Obviously an underachiever who wants to ride on the coat tails of others. May be just one day he may emulate Dennis Miller. Miller, a once famous liberal was asked last year why he became a conservative. His reply was classic, he said "I grew up"
The Tea Party (the original) was against both taxation and corporatism. Fascism/Corporatism = in-direct control over the means of production through barriers to entry set by a monopoly on force. Walmart might as well stick an American flag in it.
everyone needs to stop arguing about what they fight for whether you are strictly anti government or anti corporation and lets fight the facist pigs who want to take this place of what was once held in the highest regard by alot of people and turn it into a war waging, facist no good state. Ryan I totally agree with you man now lets do what the liberal working party did in spain during their civil war in the early 1940s and fight to keep our beliefs in this great place
Governments are inherently evil, the desire to rule others is the fruit of a flawed ego and must be abolished. Unfortunately the "leaders" have so dumbed down the many populaces that critical thinking on any level is a scarcity. Brother please keep the Truth coming, we need it.
Hey, lefties cut the socialist crap. I am from Bulgaria- a country that suffered comunism and socialism and believe me IT.SUCKS.BIG TIME! Do you know that the strongest lybertarian and anarcho-capitalist groups are all from countries that saw what a disaster left politics is?
Nobody is forcing you to work for a big corporation- if you don't like the conditions start your own business. Fight the authority, because exploatation in a society of free man is not possible without force.
Currency devaluation is done to make the raw resources and labor cheap in the third world for the predator nations like America, England, Australia and many others. America is an empire run not by presidents but by they American corporatocracy. Corporatocracy is Exx, Federal Reseve, IMF, JP Morgan Chase, CIA, World Trade Organization and World Bank.
Once again - an amazing, informative, song! You've been one of the biggest influences in getting me interested and involved in politics (and anarchy). And for that I must thank you!
Let me ask you, is statism truly the answer? Sounds like everything Ryan is railing against is caused by government and their policies. In the sense that people want to abolish that, I'm all for it.
The Tea Party of the 1700's wasn't anti corporation, it was anti tax on tea... they took action against the ships of the British.
But yea, overall fuck the Tea Party. I don't support Palin, etc.
Abolishing government is fine by me. But abolishing government without abolishing corporate power, which many libertarians and tea baggers preach, is completely flawed logic. The corporations is far less democratic than government. And yes it was anti-corporate. The tea in Boston was owned by the massive East India Tea Company, one of the world's pioneer multinational corporations, and the ships themselves were American privateers.
@ryanharveysongs I just kinda think that people confuse what we have as a "free market" and then blame the market for problems created by government and either regulation, deregulation and protectionist policies. Not free!
Dems and Reps both propel us toward this welfare warfare empire. I'm not proposing libertarianism as a system of government, rather one of justice. I don't propose to solve every problem. Forcing a corporation to do good things doesn't make them good, it makes them coerced.
@getsetrecords I actually agreed with u almost word 4 word, until "Forcing a Corporation to do good things doesn't make them good, it makes them coerced" I ask you, what right gives ANY Corporation the right to exist at all? The answer is only through the Granting of a Charter BY THE STATE. Corporations are a legal fiction allowed to be turned into a systemic monster. 2 FTR, THE USA, until the late 19th C issued only 10 year charters mandating they act in the public interest: if not=end of Corp.
@AnomicDeadDisciple I agree, they shouldn't exist. But they do exist. That doesn't change the facts as I perceive them. Facts being that coercion and aggression are never morally acceptable except in defense against like aggression.
They are meant to act in the interest of their shareholders, of which any member of the public who can buy a share is one. They are supposed to act on behalf of those who hire them basically.
@getsetrecords Totally in agreement with U here. In the contemporary landscape, Corporations (& esp. exec's) R actually legally prohibited from 1. Acting in any manner that neglects quarterly increase of profits, or 2. achieving #1, pursuing any "socially positive" act, unless based on #1's dictates. So the issue is systemic clearly.
I'd argue 1 the "ownership society" is a myth in practice, 2 Tucker's ideas R still 100% viable 4 the people, BUT Coercion & Aggression R the MO 4 State & Corp.'s
@AnomicDeadDisciple I believe that we can boycott, or otherwise compete with corporations in the free market. Coercion isn't a corporate form of aggression. They are only aggressors if they use the state to enforce their will. To the extent that our government are protectionist schills, corporations can be aggressors. No government, no corporatism. Know government, Known corporatism.
My question, can we strive for anarchy, but use the mechanism of State to achieve our ends? Fuck for virginity?
@getsetrecords Are you suggesting that corporate C.E.O.s hold their vast amounts of property and their factories that they never personally use themselves without the use or threat of violence?
Using violence to restore the equality of freedom is of course defensive force.
@ryanharveysongs I think libertarians and anarchists and even to a small degree socialists could work together. Libertarians are against a central government and the use of coercion, but if Anarchist and Libertarians achieve our utopia, how different does that really look?
An extremely limited(or non existent) government will require a great deal of localized cooperation, similar to communal living. I imagine to an extent there would be a degree of socialism, which we already have..
@getsetrecords we have "Socialism" like we have blue skin and 58 eyeballs..."Libertarianism" is a "twisted" revision of the "Philosophical Anarchism" of Benj. R. Tucker and co. circa late 19th century. "Utopia" = throwaway pejorative, unless you mean Thomas More's 1516 'origin': a Hellenistic-derived product of its time (i.e a society where there is no hunger or homeless, but also no freedom) No thanks...
Man, if you can't bother to read any of the many 100's of books on alt. societies, Y ask?
In a complete libertarian (as in anarchist) society you would not see these giant corporations. Within the free society we would see an elimination of Benjamin Tucker's "four monopolies" (money, land, tariff, and patents). The higher degree of competition in the market would generally dismantle the cooperations. The state is the major reason why big corporations can live...the state is their pacemaker. Unplug the state---drain the cooperation.
@KonkinWasRight I ask you (& myself) the existential dilemma the great BR Tucker couldn't honestly address in the 1890's et al (nor Spooner, Greene, Proudhon, nor Josiah Warren except in abstract speculation).. There is no doubt that the State is/can only be a Hobbesian Leviathan whose sole interest is in self perpetuation. BUT, while Tucker was principally spot-on, he operated under a different paradigm. Today, we have an anti-market system, as the corporations desire...(to be continued...)
@ryanharveysongs I'm a libertarian that opposes corporate power, because I see no difference between a corporation and a state. The state allows the corporations to gain power through regulations, taxation, corporate law, subsidies, and bailouts that prevent natural free-market competition. In a truly free-market, anarchist society, a corporation would not even exist, because you could not even establish yourself a legal entity with state privileges. End the state. End the corporations.
@joels344 Spot on.., the major concern I have there is that Major Corporations all maintain private Intelligence outfits in league with our state intelligence networks. Added to this the disturbing exponential expansion of these NGA Private Mercenary Armies, & I fear the writing would be on the wall.
I am not a pessimist, but I could see the MULTI-nATIONAL Parasites leaving, once they've looted every last part of the US. If we should suggest "you can't take OUR stuff," I see a very bloody war
@ryanharveysongs My friend and fellow musician of consciousness, I was born & raised in the once great state of Rhode Island; I've grew up amongst the fields whose crops and grassy fields were sown with the blood of patriots, when that word meant something. Boston was a 2nd home I've been to the Boston Tea Party site, & visited the buildings that house the men who planned it. The Colonies were a corporation from Mayflower until thewar. You know your history, & you have gained an ally in NOLA
@ryanharveysongs I will just cut and paste my argument from the Legal Dictionary. End the state, End the Corporation.
Etymology: Late Latin corporatio , from Latin corporare to form into a body, from corpor - corpus body
: an invisible, intangible, artificial creation of the law existing as a voluntary chartered association of individuals that has most of the rights and duties of natural persons but with perpetual existence and limited liability
@getsetrecords if you don't mind, I'll take that up? A. Define Statism, actually go one step further, & Il Duce will tell you what America is: "1.America is Reactionary. 2. America is Corporate". Il Duce only replaced "America" with the word "Fascism." Read or bleed...
B. The Tea Party groups who saw the FASCIST Beast were shut out of the "Official Tea Party" led by Dick Army, the Coke oil fortune, and 1000 other vultures.
And, I mean no offense, but you don't know about your own revolution
@getsetrecords The revolutionary war was fought to distance ourselves from the Bank of England. When we are taxed in order to pay interest on money we are taxed unfairly. That was what we were fighting against. We were never supposed to have a Central Bank here. Look at Andrew Jackson and what he fought against. Look at the statements made By Woodrow Wilson on central banks. That is taxation without representation because we are being forced to pay taxes that we receive no benefit from.
Where, oh where is the REAL TEA PARTY? "Occupy Wall Street"people warned not to let their efforts get hijacked (like the GOP hijacked the Tea Party) Napolitano suggests common goals.
Let me ask you, is statism truly the answer? Sounds like everything Ryan is railing against is caused by government and their policies. In the sense that people want to abolish that, I'm all for it.
"Poor folks with hard goals, rich folks with poor souls." This line sent a shiver through me. Brilliantly inspiring song Ryan, thanks for capturing and arranging your thoughts so artfully. Everyday magic :)
We need collective liberation that is born of love, not fear! That is a truer form of freedom than could ever be housed or expressed by any superstructure nation-state, but the freedom of living a true, organic life connected to the earth and its people.
@NEILDEWIS More right wing rhetoric. You must mean the "now" Republican party rather than the Douglas-Era, Ferociously Prohibitionist fire-brands who forced A Johnson to the Reconstruction-Era Demands where Free Black Men held congressional office throughout the south through 1876, & which didn't occur again for another near-century as the "dixie-crats" in the south thought it better to allow the murder-orgy of blacks by hooded cowards.
Come on Sir, tell me about history. Teach me about clowns
@NEILDEWIS dude its not about left or right its about whats true and what isnt your the dumb one to believe what your told by the 4th branch of the government i.e the media and it doesnt matter what political affiliation frederick douglas was i bet you also believe that its right to profile mexican americans automatically as illegal immigrants i mean come on dude open your fucking eyes and realize that mostly all of our politicians are lining there pockets at our expense
@NEILDEWIS He's an anarcho-communist. He's not completely left wing. I'm an anarcho-capitalist but I also hate war and I support Ron Paul. Quit sterotyping.
@NEILDEWIS Fuck you dude fuck left wing fuck right wing fuck choosing sides ur th clueless DUMBASS tht needs to realize tht this world is going to shit and we all need to join together and take back whts ours
Ryan, you rock. I think I have every song you have ever recorded. You are playing on my ipod daily while I drive, some time it is just you. And thats been like that for 2+ years, just after you last came to england (gutted!). Your first guitar, Rocket Launcher, FTAA Prep, countless others. I have sung your songs at open mics and on the streets around the UK, spreading the true word. I would urge you to distribute the chords of your songs on riotfolk.org as there is demand. Where can I donate????
Right on the head! We collectively don't have much sense of history and too often what we have is, in our collective teaching of it, an awful lot of omissions.
If you believe this imbecile will earn more than six dollars-an-hour as long as he lives, you're as delusional as him. What a fuckin' pathetic goofball!
FrankeeFraud 5 days ago
This guy is a hypocritical piece of shit parasite on society. Bush was shot down twice so you could sit in your room and record your little songs that sound like they were taken straight out of a children's book.
mattmatt209 1 month ago
Ryan is one of the best folkpunk musican i' ever heard to! His voice and the lyrics touch my heart !!
MonnimitdemPony 2 months ago
Ryan Harvey should be the voice of the generation.
Necrotharsis 3 months ago
overthrow everything
FOPboycottme 4 months ago
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scheisekindmensch 4 months ago
I love Ryan Harvey. I wish he would come to hemet ca and betroth hastily.
dearsealion 5 months ago
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oh come on man you can't have your phone vibrating during the serious speech after!
BeTheChange2793 5 months ago
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BeTheChange2793 5 months ago
I used to love you guys, and the entire crust anarch scene. But I had to grow up and so do you guys. You can live without private property or capitalism if you want but trying to impose or allowing the STATE to impose your ideas is immoral and ostensibly against your own stated principals. The collectives like the land trusts and communes and "free spaces" and punk houses are fun and do interesting things but they can't survive without paying the rent.
AynManRand 6 months ago
@AynManRand How is the state imposing anarchist ideas? And how can capitalism operate without imposing upon people? A few hundred years ago there was no concept of land ownership in America. That idea was imposed upon the native people of this land by force, & they were chained up by the millions and hauled off to lands that were already occupied by other people. The exact meaning of most of your comment is rather fuzzy, so I'll leave it at that.
DevonWhorton 5 months ago
@AynManRand How is the state imposing anarchist ideas? And how can capitalism operate without imposing upon people? A few hundred years ago there was no concept of land ownership in America. That idea was imposed upon the native people of this land by force, & they were chained up by the millions and hauled off to lands that were already occupied by other people. The exact meaning of most of your comment is rather fuzzy, so I'll leave it at that.
DevonWhorton 5 months ago
@DevonWhorton Green "standards" are being championed by the US government, Cap and Trade is being sold-literally- as the answer to environmental degradation. Meanwhile large corporations will use these regulations as a barrier to protect there market share from competitors, like they always do.
AynManRand 5 months ago
Yaaaaawn. Is this loser done yet? Obviously an underachiever who wants to ride on the coat tails of others. May be just one day he may emulate Dennis Miller. Miller, a once famous liberal was asked last year why he became a conservative. His reply was classic, he said "I grew up"
Sbrownlee 6 months ago
@Sbrownlee This guy is an anarchist, not a liberal.
rebelpowerhour 6 months ago
Liberalism that borders on communism is far more fascist than some midwestern social conservatives.
Dumptruckxx 7 months ago
Being a libertarian means you are a racist? Shiggity what?
Dumptruckxx 7 months ago
Thanx 4 setting d history right, explaining what the original Boston Tea Party really meant.
reyty2 10 months ago
Wonderful.
kanefreeman1 10 months ago
one of your best songs ryan. beautiful. -zoe
ironkatia 11 months ago
Great song, only I disagree with him on how to solve these problems.
More state power does not equal less corporate power. Competition in the market does.
Prometheusforliberty 11 months ago
The Tea Party (the original) was against both taxation and corporatism. Fascism/Corporatism = in-direct control over the means of production through barriers to entry set by a monopoly on force. Walmart might as well stick an American flag in it.
Also:
Keep Whole Food's out of Jamaica Plain!
Gettinghitonattheban 11 months ago
everyone needs to stop arguing about what they fight for whether you are strictly anti government or anti corporation and lets fight the facist pigs who want to take this place of what was once held in the highest regard by alot of people and turn it into a war waging, facist no good state. Ryan I totally agree with you man now lets do what the liberal working party did in spain during their civil war in the early 1940s and fight to keep our beliefs in this great place
rossdog127 1 year ago
Governments are inherently evil, the desire to rule others is the fruit of a flawed ego and must be abolished. Unfortunately the "leaders" have so dumbed down the many populaces that critical thinking on any level is a scarcity. Brother please keep the Truth coming, we need it.
Crustysimpletons 1 year ago
Hey, lefties cut the socialist crap. I am from Bulgaria- a country that suffered comunism and socialism and believe me IT.SUCKS.BIG TIME! Do you know that the strongest lybertarian and anarcho-capitalist groups are all from countries that saw what a disaster left politics is?
Nobody is forcing you to work for a big corporation- if you don't like the conditions start your own business. Fight the authority, because exploatation in a society of free man is not possible without force.
palabg 1 year ago 3
Just thought I'd be different and say "great song! amazing melody with thought provoking lyrics. Great stuff!
dragonskankin 1 year ago
Magnificent speech at the end, Ryan!
AnarchistOpposition 1 year ago
Perfection.
ArrMatie 1 year ago
Currency devaluation is done to make the raw resources and labor cheap in the third world for the predator nations like America, England, Australia and many others. America is an empire run not by presidents but by they American corporatocracy. Corporatocracy is Exx, Federal Reseve, IMF, JP Morgan Chase, CIA, World Trade Organization and World Bank.
Mack125377 1 year ago
fucking brilliant song, Ryan never disapoints, keep on rocking man. You Need To Come To San Diego!!!!!
blobperson 1 year ago
Such a great song.
kanefreeman1 1 year ago
Once again - an amazing, informative, song! You've been one of the biggest influences in getting me interested and involved in politics (and anarchy). And for that I must thank you!
teaguertugee 1 year ago
Let me ask you, is statism truly the answer? Sounds like everything Ryan is railing against is caused by government and their policies. In the sense that people want to abolish that, I'm all for it.
The Tea Party of the 1700's wasn't anti corporation, it was anti tax on tea... they took action against the ships of the British.
But yea, overall fuck the Tea Party. I don't support Palin, etc.
getsetrecords 1 year ago
Abolishing government is fine by me. But abolishing government without abolishing corporate power, which many libertarians and tea baggers preach, is completely flawed logic. The corporations is far less democratic than government. And yes it was anti-corporate. The tea in Boston was owned by the massive East India Tea Company, one of the world's pioneer multinational corporations, and the ships themselves were American privateers.
ryanharveysongs 1 year ago 22
@ryanharveysongs I just kinda think that people confuse what we have as a "free market" and then blame the market for problems created by government and either regulation, deregulation and protectionist policies. Not free!
Dems and Reps both propel us toward this welfare warfare empire. I'm not proposing libertarianism as a system of government, rather one of justice. I don't propose to solve every problem. Forcing a corporation to do good things doesn't make them good, it makes them coerced.
getsetrecords 1 year ago
@getsetrecords I actually agreed with u almost word 4 word, until "Forcing a Corporation to do good things doesn't make them good, it makes them coerced" I ask you, what right gives ANY Corporation the right to exist at all? The answer is only through the Granting of a Charter BY THE STATE. Corporations are a legal fiction allowed to be turned into a systemic monster. 2 FTR, THE USA, until the late 19th C issued only 10 year charters mandating they act in the public interest: if not=end of Corp.
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@AnomicDeadDisciple I agree, they shouldn't exist. But they do exist. That doesn't change the facts as I perceive them. Facts being that coercion and aggression are never morally acceptable except in defense against like aggression.
They are meant to act in the interest of their shareholders, of which any member of the public who can buy a share is one. They are supposed to act on behalf of those who hire them basically.
getsetrecords 1 year ago
@getsetrecords Totally in agreement with U here. In the contemporary landscape, Corporations (& esp. exec's) R actually legally prohibited from 1. Acting in any manner that neglects quarterly increase of profits, or 2. achieving #1, pursuing any "socially positive" act, unless based on #1's dictates. So the issue is systemic clearly.
I'd argue 1 the "ownership society" is a myth in practice, 2 Tucker's ideas R still 100% viable 4 the people, BUT Coercion & Aggression R the MO 4 State & Corp.'s
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@AnomicDeadDisciple I believe that we can boycott, or otherwise compete with corporations in the free market. Coercion isn't a corporate form of aggression. They are only aggressors if they use the state to enforce their will. To the extent that our government are protectionist schills, corporations can be aggressors. No government, no corporatism. Know government, Known corporatism.
My question, can we strive for anarchy, but use the mechanism of State to achieve our ends? Fuck for virginity?
getsetrecords 1 year ago
@getsetrecords Are you suggesting that corporate C.E.O.s hold their vast amounts of property and their factories that they never personally use themselves without the use or threat of violence?
Using violence to restore the equality of freedom is of course defensive force.
AnarchistOpposition 1 year ago
@ryanharveysongs I think libertarians and anarchists and even to a small degree socialists could work together. Libertarians are against a central government and the use of coercion, but if Anarchist and Libertarians achieve our utopia, how different does that really look?
An extremely limited(or non existent) government will require a great deal of localized cooperation, similar to communal living. I imagine to an extent there would be a degree of socialism, which we already have..
getsetrecords 1 year ago
@getsetrecords we have "Socialism" like we have blue skin and 58 eyeballs..."Libertarianism" is a "twisted" revision of the "Philosophical Anarchism" of Benj. R. Tucker and co. circa late 19th century. "Utopia" = throwaway pejorative, unless you mean Thomas More's 1516 'origin': a Hellenistic-derived product of its time (i.e a society where there is no hunger or homeless, but also no freedom) No thanks...
Man, if you can't bother to read any of the many 100's of books on alt. societies, Y ask?
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
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AnarchistOpposition 1 year ago
@ryanharveysongs
In a complete libertarian (as in anarchist) society you would not see these giant corporations. Within the free society we would see an elimination of Benjamin Tucker's "four monopolies" (money, land, tariff, and patents). The higher degree of competition in the market would generally dismantle the cooperations. The state is the major reason why big corporations can live...the state is their pacemaker. Unplug the state---drain the cooperation.
KonkinWasRight 1 year ago
@KonkinWasRight I ask you (& myself) the existential dilemma the great BR Tucker couldn't honestly address in the 1890's et al (nor Spooner, Greene, Proudhon, nor Josiah Warren except in abstract speculation).. There is no doubt that the State is/can only be a Hobbesian Leviathan whose sole interest is in self perpetuation. BUT, while Tucker was principally spot-on, he operated under a different paradigm. Today, we have an anti-market system, as the corporations desire...(to be continued...)
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@ryanharveysongs I'm a libertarian that opposes corporate power, because I see no difference between a corporation and a state. The state allows the corporations to gain power through regulations, taxation, corporate law, subsidies, and bailouts that prevent natural free-market competition. In a truly free-market, anarchist society, a corporation would not even exist, because you could not even establish yourself a legal entity with state privileges. End the state. End the corporations.
joels344 1 year ago
@joels344 Spot on.., the major concern I have there is that Major Corporations all maintain private Intelligence outfits in league with our state intelligence networks. Added to this the disturbing exponential expansion of these NGA Private Mercenary Armies, & I fear the writing would be on the wall.
I am not a pessimist, but I could see the MULTI-nATIONAL Parasites leaving, once they've looted every last part of the US. If we should suggest "you can't take OUR stuff," I see a very bloody war
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@ryanharveysongs My friend and fellow musician of consciousness, I was born & raised in the once great state of Rhode Island; I've grew up amongst the fields whose crops and grassy fields were sown with the blood of patriots, when that word meant something. Boston was a 2nd home I've been to the Boston Tea Party site, & visited the buildings that house the men who planned it. The Colonies were a corporation from Mayflower until thewar. You know your history, & you have gained an ally in NOLA
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@ryanharveysongs I will just cut and paste my argument from the Legal Dictionary. End the state, End the Corporation.
Etymology: Late Latin corporatio , from Latin corporare to form into a body, from corpor - corpus body
: an invisible, intangible, artificial creation of the law existing as a voluntary chartered association of individuals that has most of the rights and duties of natural persons but with perpetual existence and limited liability
mattcool1st 10 months ago
@getsetrecords if you don't mind, I'll take that up? A. Define Statism, actually go one step further, & Il Duce will tell you what America is: "1.America is Reactionary. 2. America is Corporate". Il Duce only replaced "America" with the word "Fascism." Read or bleed...
B. The Tea Party groups who saw the FASCIST Beast were shut out of the "Official Tea Party" led by Dick Army, the Coke oil fortune, and 1000 other vultures.
And, I mean no offense, but you don't know about your own revolution
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@getsetrecords The revolutionary war was fought to distance ourselves from the Bank of England. When we are taxed in order to pay interest on money we are taxed unfairly. That was what we were fighting against. We were never supposed to have a Central Bank here. Look at Andrew Jackson and what he fought against. Look at the statements made By Woodrow Wilson on central banks. That is taxation without representation because we are being forced to pay taxes that we receive no benefit from.
robbin505 9 months ago
@getsetrecords the tea party of the 1700's would actually be more aligned with Osama Bin Laden tbqh
libertr33 7 months ago
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Where, oh where is the REAL TEA PARTY? "Occupy Wall Street"people warned not to let their efforts get hijacked (like the GOP hijacked the Tea Party) Napolitano suggests common goals.
End the Fed
End the wars
End the income tax
/watch?v=nF30eMuWFHI
vechorik 4 months ago
Let me ask you, is statism truly the answer? Sounds like everything Ryan is railing against is caused by government and their policies. In the sense that people want to abolish that, I'm all for it.
getsetrecords 1 year ago
"Poor folks with hard goals, rich folks with poor souls." This line sent a shiver through me. Brilliantly inspiring song Ryan, thanks for capturing and arranging your thoughts so artfully. Everyday magic :)
We need collective liberation that is born of love, not fear! That is a truer form of freedom than could ever be housed or expressed by any superstructure nation-state, but the freedom of living a true, organic life connected to the earth and its people.
~Lacy
lacymacauley 1 year ago
Preach, man, preach!!!
aLaughingPenguin 1 year ago
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More left wing rhetoric. This guy is clueless. Ps. Fredrick douglas was also a rep. DUMB ASS
NEILDEWIS 1 year ago
Hell yeah.
ryanharveysongs 1 year ago 6
@NEILDEWIS More right wing rhetoric. You must mean the "now" Republican party rather than the Douglas-Era, Ferociously Prohibitionist fire-brands who forced A Johnson to the Reconstruction-Era Demands where Free Black Men held congressional office throughout the south through 1876, & which didn't occur again for another near-century as the "dixie-crats" in the south thought it better to allow the murder-orgy of blacks by hooded cowards.
Come on Sir, tell me about history. Teach me about clowns
AnomicDeadDisciple 1 year ago
@NEILDEWIS dude its not about left or right its about whats true and what isnt your the dumb one to believe what your told by the 4th branch of the government i.e the media and it doesnt matter what political affiliation frederick douglas was i bet you also believe that its right to profile mexican americans automatically as illegal immigrants i mean come on dude open your fucking eyes and realize that mostly all of our politicians are lining there pockets at our expense
rossdog127 1 year ago
@NEILDEWIS He's an anarcho-communist. He's not completely left wing. I'm an anarcho-capitalist but I also hate war and I support Ron Paul. Quit sterotyping.
johnwrogers 11 months ago
@johnwrogers lol, anarcho-capitalist 1 its an oxymoron 2 doesnt exist.
nikechiapas 9 months ago
@nikechiapas Watch the conversation between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault
robbin505 9 months ago
@NEILDEWIS Fuck you dude fuck left wing fuck right wing fuck choosing sides ur th clueless DUMBASS tht needs to realize tht this world is going to shit and we all need to join together and take back whts ours
TheFunnytrey8594 8 months ago
@NEILDEWIS globalization imperialism civil rights violations
libertr33 7 months ago
Good stuff.
GoodBandsYouDontKnow 1 year ago
This is one of the best songs yet, keep it up Ryan, you fucking magician.
CopsxCantxDance 1 year ago
i'm the 666th view. yes!
JamesDisasterPunx 1 year ago
Ryan, you rock. I think I have every song you have ever recorded. You are playing on my ipod daily while I drive, some time it is just you. And thats been like that for 2+ years, just after you last came to england (gutted!). Your first guitar, Rocket Launcher, FTAA Prep, countless others. I have sung your songs at open mics and on the streets around the UK, spreading the true word. I would urge you to distribute the chords of your songs on riotfolk.org as there is demand. Where can I donate????
oppositereality 1 year ago
wow I had no idea you were a damn good guitar player!
yniazi 1 year ago
Right on the head! We collectively don't have much sense of history and too often what we have is, in our collective teaching of it, an awful lot of omissions.
Mrsarjib 1 year ago
Ryan! You made me CRY! *grins*
hkindt 1 year ago