What If You Knew - David Rovics

[tonybenn1000]

I KNOW, who the Real Terrorists & Murders are, it's OUR OWN GOVERNMENT !!!

[wishboneism]

The truth can not be homoginizes, pasturtized of proselytized! Reality dictates it for what it really is! Thank you!

[hanksnow2]

Almost everything is about money. In North America, leave out 'almost'.

It's believed by many that the Rothschild family is worth in "excess" of $550 TRILLION!

The USA is in debt about $15 Trillion. The rest of the world would probably total no more than another $50 trillion(just a guess). That would total about 65 Trillion.

Now if we could double that $65 Trillion, pay off all the debts of the world & let them reverse their debts to surplus, ...WOW!!! Still leaves the Rothchild's $400 Trillion!

[machine1376]

I'm in! Tired of all this shit. There is NO such thing as peace. The hardest battle you will ever fight is the one for individual freedom. Think you are free right now? Try not paying the I.R.S. Think your voice is heard? Schedule an appointment with your state representative. It will never happen.

[tsayad1986]

Powerfull song..

[Seadolphins1]

5 people work for the media.

^It's probably true.

[workingthelight]

David, thank you for this powerful song!

[Timsiam]

The melody and rythm of this song reminds me of Bob Dylan's It's alright ma (I'm only bleeding)

[whelmingification]

zeitgeist moving forward.

WE CAN DO THIS

[fredgorey]

sadly people STILL don't care... :-(

[JDK1981]

this song is just simply amazing and 50 stars ! fuck 5 stars, this tells it how it really is. People should start arming up. I see a revolution on its way.

[margot980]

Dem Now just played David's song, in the break between pieces on the debacle at Cancun. What enrages me is that the kids planting for the planet were reported as planting 143 trees, one for every nation.

Hey, the vote was 143-1. Evo Morales and Bolivia, the only no-roll-over nation to the US hijack of the Cancun effort. Evo for hero of the year.

Do more.

[Gripfang]

Vote No Confidence!

Our political system is completely corrupted.

Americans need to reorganize the way our government is run & where the money comes from.

We should break up ALL the major corporations & make them truly accountable, begin to rebuild our manufacturing & production abilities, & reduce our dependence on outsourcing.

EVERY voting citizen should be required to spend time as a civil servant, be it in government, law enforcement, public safety, ect.

[Gripfang]

@Gripfang Absolute Term Limits for ALL government positions.

No more of this lifetime appointment ridiculousness for Supreme Court Judges.

Promote local gardening. They can be made on building roofs, herb gardens on window sills, clearing & gardening in abandoned lots.

promote it as a required course in schools. Kids like playing in the dirt anyway, let them learn something useful & use the food grown to supplement school meals.

And are many more things we can do to make a better America.

[jimmybtwentyone]

@Gripfang Well said! Thanks for saying it!

[Nothiean]

Vote AK-47. Victory to the workers

[tsayad1986]

@Nothiean

'AK-47, the great equalizer' (Far Cry 2) had to quote the jackel haha.. Make the world a better place, 1 capitalist at a day ;)

[Nothiean]

@tsayad1986 Or many a day :D!

[tsayad1986]

F**k Capitalism!!

a socialist from the Netherlands.

[Marnaca]

@tsayad1986 I hear ya, comrade! But I'm from Sweden though.

[EIIhnika00]

Great song, great video!

5*

PEOPLE WAKE UP!

[howlingsandy]

There's no single experience regarding racism. All (including whites) have been victims, even of their own. I know people of every ethnicity & culture, can function within the cultures, here & other countries, including languages. I was active in helping implement the National Civil Rights Act. Racial oppression speaks more to money, abuse of power, who serves who, and neurotic aggression, self-hatred in denial (born of internalized alienation from family "socialization" early on, serving state)

[Ignorant303]

Bomb Tel-Aviv!! Nuke The USA!!

[PerryLogan]

Well--then I'd know. :(

[fxnadeau]

Obama has revealed himself as a corporatist puppet driven by the financial, medical, petroleum industries (among many others). War is escalating in the middle east, with frequent drone bombings in Pakistan and even Yemen. Israel unscrupulously murders civilians of the world in international waters; Iran is being attacked with a nuclear smear campaign to prepare the population for more war, while the economic foundations of Europe (and soon the U.S.) are crumbling under our very eyes.

Wake up!

[llachmund]

Wow! I heard this song on Democracy Now yesterday. It sent chills up my spine. I will send it to my email list and hope it has the same effect on those I know. If we knew....and we do know. So let us get active!

[screwdriver1488]

great song, had to find it ! thanks man

[noaid2israel]

Excellent Mr. Rovics!!!  Thank you!!

[ProNorden]

Very good song premise, ...and 're-workable' to include some 'current topical' lyrics (kinda like 'The Mikado' 's 'Little List' song.)

Maybe this song cold use a 'bridge'.

Go BNP.Go Nationalist.

'Pro-Family, Stewardship, & Fair Trade'

[BlackpoolBhoy]

@ProNorden Fuck BNP, Fuck Nationalism. If you actually knew anything about Rovic, you'd know he'd be disgusted by racism and nationalism... ONE WORLD

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden,

Go BNP, Go Nationalist? So you want to continue bombing those inferior races in the name of patriotism, and you want all those colored people to "go back" and leave Britain for the Whites only? You're praising the wrong song here, David Rovics is for humanity, against war, against greed, against injustice, against racism, you seem to defend racism and blind nationalism/patriotism.

[ProNorden]

@optimistsRUS ... "continue bombing" ? No, the British National Party is among the few that opposes unnecessary military intervention and favors withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Also against greed , injustice, and prevalent anti-white racism, etc. ... unlike their critics.

Try to not be so easily propagandized/mislead by leftist/corporatist media. Like the song says 'What if you knew? '.

Check out their website: bnp org uk

Go BNP. Go Nationalist.

'Pro-Family, Stewardship, & Fair Trade'

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden,

I stand corrected on the issue of illegal, unjustified wars on innocent people, I didnt know their stance, and I assumed it based on their racist ideology. They have in fact compared the British generals to Nazi war criminals and have called for their trials, I laud them for that.

However unless u live under a rock, u should know they are racist

"The British National Party was ordered to stop taking new members yesterday after a judge said its rules were loaded against non-whites."

[ProNorden]

@optimistsRUS ... In your view can a person/group be pro-white and not be racist? Can Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, and the N.A.A.C.P. be pro-black and not be racist? Can b'nai brith be pro-jewish and not be racist? Ditto for Arab groups etc. ?

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden,

Did you read any of the messages above that mentioned violent attacks by BNP members against non-Whites? Did you read that their membership was limited to "Whites only"? Do you still think that's not racist?

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X etc didn't hate non-Blacks, they wanted equal rights and equal treatment for Blacks, that was when restaurants had signs that said "Dogs and Blacks not allowed", Arabs/Muslims are treated roughly today, you think White people are persecuted today?

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden,

(contd)

"Last month the party abandoned its whites-only policy to try to comply with the law - but Judge Collins said the move was cosmetic.

In particular he pointed to new rules which require new members to be vetted by existing members in their homes.

He also referred to a series of newly established core party organisations that appear to have been set up to ensure new ethnic minority members cannot influence BNP policies or leadership."

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden,

BNP MEP Andrew Brons's racist rants are no secret.

In 1984 Brons was convicted of using insulting behaviour towards an ethnic-minority police officer and left the party.

He endorsed a pamphlet that had photographs of Brons and Verrall as well as a picture of a gorilla and a black man stating: "These two creatures look the same, don't they?"

According to the BNP 2001 election manifesto:

A black person who commits a crime would also be thrown out of the country, even native born.

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden

On other occasions, the BNP has glorified racist attacks. In 1991, the BNP newspaper gloated after several BNP supporters stabbed an African immigrant at London Bridge station. The victim had his kidney surgically removed, the paper boasted. In the same year, the BNP leadership whipped up a racist riot in Bermondsey, London, and led an attack on an anti-racist meeting that was protesting against the BNP headquaters in Welling. Thirteen people needed hospital treatment.

[optimistsRUS]

@ProNorden, Former National Organiser Richard Edmonds was convicted for his part in a vicious bottle attack on a mixed race couple in a pub in East London 1993

BNP supporter Stuart Kerr was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for firebombing an Asian shop in Chichester, Sussex

BNP leader Nick Griffin was convicted of incitement to racial hatred in April 1998

[grummeper]

føj - puuuhaaaaa -

5 *****

[totaltjaevlamorker]

I saw him live yesterday. AWESOME. I requested this song but he hadn't learned it by heart yet though, he promised me he would until next time ^^...

[jackinal]

@totaltjaevlamorker fake and gay

[totaltjaevlamorker]

@jackinal i hate you jack eiman, (svedala, sweden).

[jackinal]

@totaltjaevlamorker

nope

i think...

that you looooove me

[grandmachristine42]

Wow. I never heard this guy before, until this week on LinkTV. Thank you thank you.

[larsinla]

I have listened to pretty much all of David Rovics songs and indeed it is like a walk through history - the history of the oppressed. But the songs give you hope - they show that if people unite they can win a battle!

If you believe in god start praying that the still divided oppressed of the world never unite and rise to fight for their rights!

It would be the bloody end for those who try to deceive us over and over again!

[nowellian]

larsinla, that reminds me of another great David Rovics song. After the Revolution!

[nowellian]

Obama knows, now what will he do about it?

[larsinla]

well in about 4 years we know for a fact if obama changed something and Israel with the help of US weapons still kills the "children of Jerusalem" which is another song of David Rovics.

[rambojoe2323]

Best Rovics song yet. I'm getting music and political education to become more like this guy.

[ElOttomanPrince]

God Work

God be with you

Music can bomb people but not kill them.....

[TheAussie00]

Powerful but meaningful.

[Modeltrainguy]

BRILLIANT! O_O Graphic...but Brilliant! WOW!

Shedding a tear...

[nowellian]

Obama voted for telecom immunity, says he will leave at least 50,000 troops in Iraq, wants to "redeploy" 10's of thousands of troops to Afghanistan, says nuclear power is on the table, does not support impeachment. Need I go on?

Just why is it I am supposed to vote for Obama? I forgot!

Support Ralph Nader for president!

[dartherik3001]

vote nader

[karrachea]

** A vote for Nader would be just to make a statement, since he obviously would not get enough votes to put him into office, but it would surely put McCain into office. Just as it pulled votes from Gore & Kerry, and put Bush into office previously. At least Obama would at lead us in a different direction than we're headed now. ANY direction would be better than where we are headed now! PLEASE RECONSIDER! Nader should put his efforts into the environment not the presidency!

IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY

[dartherik3001]

i agree but nader would make an awesome president,and if u didn't notice last election it don't matter who u vote 4 who ever the government feels like putting in there gets it.BUSH DIDN'T GET THE POPULAR VOTE,HE'S PRESIDENT BECAUSE HIS BROTHER IS GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA!!! I also agree McCain would b 4 more years of bush,So i probably will vote Obama.Y cant we get somebody we want n there?that all i was really saying.

[rambojoe2323]

you see, it's like this....let's say a dog takes a massive shit on the lawn of the white house. Then the media splits the turd in half and puts a red flag in one side and a blue flag in the other. Imagine the huddled masses the media leads around the dog shit.

Now picture a beautiful blueberry pie. Let's call him, Ralph Nader. Imagine if people started shouting louder about that blueberry pie instead of compromising for dog shit. We can make a difference, never forget that. Despair helps no one

[Saltedkoshersalami]

@dartherik3001

voting nader got this country president bush

the irony of it is stupendous

[JRCN84]

Bush should be put against a wall & shot like the mass murderering war criminal he his. Him & all his kind.

[jonatsag]

Should be impeach? Learn English.

[nowellian]

Preemptive war sucks!

Bush should be impeach before he does it again!

[Heartkissing7]

Thank you for the share! I agree with you...absolute 100%*

[dechha1981]

Yep

[margot980]

I ask people:  do you know who made your underpants.

The classic response is: we don't worry because we wash them before we put them on.

[nowellian]

Ralph Nader for President!

Democrats and republicans are working together for global imperialism and War is just their foreign policy instrument to achieve their goals!

[nowellian]

How could we not know?

I think most Americans know, they are just glad the global fascists are targeting them instead of us!

Greedy pigs do not care!

[irishrebelalert]

yeah he is like christy moore in a way, brilliant,a conscious american! didnt know they existed

[nowellian]

Awesome! David is right on as usual. By the way I do know!!! That is why I am supporting Dennis Kucinich for peace and justice in '08.

[CornDolly07]

I like where you're coming from. Do you know David Bowie's 'Five Years' -- if you haven't heard it, you should give it a listen. (It's on one of his early albums - don't know which one).

[poguemothon]

I come from Ireland and this guy Rovics is like our Christy Moore! Excellent!

[soisialsach]

tell it like it is, as usual, david. gr8 visuals, really suit this tune.

[simonbarnes12345]

David Rovics is a legend. Great messages. He tells it how it is. He isn't brainwashed like every one else

[HansVerbeek]

Best son I heard since Woodstock (1969).

[Kerouac4fan]

All it needs is a catchy chorus...  Well done David - one of your best!

[margot980]

amazing images, Tao, and David's lyrics are searing as usual

[margot980]

This need re-uploading. It's worth it. David's best song? Great px. Bravo all on the crew.

[benzoylation]

I wish I could put together a simple music video like this

[michelle1688]

cheers for making this vid to go with this pukka tune. We know, but if the whole world knew, would they join us?? after seeing the truth, how could they not

[impurenergy]

fuck the lies the truth is in here!

[lukelundemo]

Awesome. Thank you for making this.

[jaykhub1]

this is it. im pissed. its time for peace