This is my favorite of his speeches from rock the bells that year. Not just because I was there, lol, but I thought it was so much more to the point and yet optimistic than the others. the crowd left that day absolutely empowered and marched through the streets of SF.
The cracker comment goes against the "equality" that he preaches....I love RATM and I fought in Iraq, my point is that if it wasnt the United States foreign policy world wide, it would be Russian or Chinese....both of which do not share our view of civil liberties....whould you rather have their hand in the coomie jar? Us or the Chineese or Rusians? Believe me, it could.get alot worse
You think his views are extreme? Wow, why dont you explore the world and find out what is going on at this time, the world is a dangerous place (even more while U.S. seeks conquest) just because you live in a hole dosent mean nothing goes on outside the hole.
Zach is an extension of Jim Morrison. Hes the only rock star of my generation who had the balls to go against authority. We'll never see another band like RATM!
Your nation will collapse given your population and rate of consumption. You and your people will all die in the droves and it will be your country's fault.
"Viva Communism", the millions toiling in rural China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and the whole southeast Asia region disagree. Tibet does NOT belong to China.
Have fun with your mouth being ducked tape in your communist state, you cannot even take of your people. The USSR will not return. But yet again, have fun with Big Brother watching over you at all times.
this was probably the best concert i have ever been to. im happy to see rage at least once before i die & be part of their reunion tour! again that was the best day of my life!!
he WON'T run for office cause he knows that even if he becomes president or emperor of the world it wouldn't change a thing about exploitation and oppression of the few to the many. he knows that the people are the ones who will free themselves with their collective and united struggle he is just doing his part in agitating and raising political awareness
I think he's promoting an idealistic society which can't be accompished. The closest thing to what Zack wants, will be what Obama does. Obama, in my opinion, will crack under the pressures of an international crisis, and just give what the enemy, or any country, what they want.
"The structure is set ya neva change it with a ballot pull". Zacks own words. He does something about it, in his own way. But rather than using the flawed system humorously dubbed "democracy", in which only the very richest candidates ever have a chance of being elected, never mind actually have a chance to change anything, he chooses to reach out to people through his music and concerts. Also, check out the, largely unpublicized, work and protesting he does in Mexico.
they want you divided they divide you by race divide you by gender divide you by location and class too busy fighting over all these things to notice the real enemy
thats a pretty fuckin stupid commment, although it probly does fall into alot of deaf ears.. but not all "crackers" are ignorant bigots that cant see the injustices in the american society, in a way ur rite tho because alot of those people like rage for thier pretty guitar sounds and loud vocals and dont truly dont get wut thier truly all about
I think Zach should be a little careful on what he's saying. We have to realize that our military could indeed back us up if we form with them. The government does not entirely control the military. We have to make our military realize that these crazy documents that we register and all of our rights that are being stolen by the state doesn't have to be. We just have to get these corrupt people out of our system and our military can rebel with us.
Over the course of histpry the white man has killed and raped everything in sight. It's not hard to agree with what he's saying even if it does seem racist.
You lost me at "rich white crackas." By saying that Zack put himself on the level of the Klan members who thought that killing "filthy n----rs" was the way to save the country.
Zach is white himself too. According to the definition of racism he is still being racist, but you have to undertsand that he knows these people are corrupt, and it's these white people that are corrupt and in control. Generalizing is a very bad thing and is what started racism. But is it still generalizing if what he's saying is true? If they are all white? And not one man of African-American descent can get that power in this country? He's merely making a point.
Do his fucking name sound white you stupid fuck . White people can never get his really message and black people never listen to him because he play rock. All you people need listen message black and white. And take our country, because not even Obama or Ron paul will do it. We need to it.
I don't quite understand your paragraph. In fact, I'm going to copy and paste this paragraph to a letter and mail it to the white house and tell George Bush what a great job he's done.
LOL, Great , then you ask him if Zack de Rocha sounds like a white name. Anyway, yes, I fucked that up.. All you people need listen to his message black and white. And take our country back, because not even Obama or Ron paul will do it. We need to take the power back .
Man this guy speaks the truth...look how messed up this country is now all because bush couldnt mind his own business...i bet bush knew about 9/11...this government know EVERYTHING...
me5210, you can change a country, but you're not going to change the government. At a point it's still going to be the same crap, just different guys running it.
We CAN change our governemnt. These corrupts are from the left side. Liberals, if you will. They are the ones that issue these chips, these are the ones who create these absurd bills and tax us 50%. We have to realize that Bush has a lot to do with it and will be overthrown if he does get into ofice again, but hes not the only one behind the New World Order. Our forefathers rebelled against tyrants who taxed us 3-4% and they made that constitution. We are getting taxed at around 50%. WAKE UP!
yes me210 it would if you didnt have essentially a 1 party state. the real voices in america are silenced. kucinich, ron paul ect. you vote a "new" govt in it will be the same as the last one with a new puppet face.. i fear its too late for you. you sleepwalked into your own destruction..
I agree, Ron Paul may have been a great victory for America if he were to get that position. I believe he simply didn't because of his stand on abortion as I have interviewed a lot of Conservatives that believe different then him. The people I interview believe that he has that fire in his eyes and understands what integrity is. This man has that passion that every other politician does not, it's too bad he's not going to win. "It's not the vote count that counts, but who counts the votes"---
whatis about to happen to your country is unfathomable by the normal mind. abortionists and following a false version of christianity is the least of your worries. its gonna get serious incase you hadnt noticed already. more fake terror attacks? or flase iran invasion.. maybe both.. voting wont change any of it.
Yes, but you have to understand that the state cannot change our country's history. They cannot change what we stand for, and what that flag and constitution represents. THE PEOPLE DO THAT! And that makes the state a very different thing than the land. Right now our rights are slowly being taken away along with our privacy. Americans do not realize this, they are too busy watching Hannah Montana, and the ones who try to wake up are too busy complaining about oil.
ME5210- no, country & government aren't the same. The country encompasses all the regular people. The government encompasses 99% of the liars in elected or appointed offices, those who make the unjust laws in this country. It's like the bumpersticker: I love my country but fear my government. And all of us should feel this way, & change the government to a user-friendly power. Like Zack shouts: Wake Up!
The country is the land. The governemnt is the state. These two things mean two totally different things. We need to march with that American Flag in our hands and we need to rebel in the name of America. Our goverment is Anti-American, they go against everything our constitution stands for. And they have accomplished so much brainwashing by simply hiding behind that red white & blue. America is a police state and we are going to have to either educate them or steamroll through them!
but quite another to heal the disease... patches are temporary...
what he is saying here is for americans to get off their dead asses and get educated get involved... that is where the true power lies... One has the World's UNIVERSITY right
Right, and if you listen to Zach and his message you will agree that these "Renegades" come through every time something becomes corrupt. Our freedom is something that will have to be defended generation, after generation, after generation. We can only change this age we are present in and we all intend to do so. Let us defend our rights and provide a little future history lesson to renegades in the future generations! I'm proud to be a member of the revolution, aren't you?
If there is no step by step game plan beyond the show... they are just spinning their wheels...taking one fishing can feed him for a day... teaching one how to fish... he will feed himself for life... It is one thing to treat a disease ...
They're not Communist. They're Socialist. And its not hippocritical, he's trying to prove a point. Some people do value his worlds follow in his path. Like me.
the only difference between a communist and a socialist is one already has control and the other wants control. i disagree with most of the the thing zack says, but god help me i love the guy.
Funny how hes talking about taking the white house and telling everyone to sacrifice, go to jail, die; and they all cheer, but they're just going to go back home and live the same lives; nothings going to change and he knows it. No ones going to march out of the arena and take the white house; why does he bother with the speeches? and isn't it anti communist to call them crackers? Kind of hypocritical to preach the 'everyone is equal' line, then use a racial slur. Oh well, great song: Rage rules
Can you blame the so called "minorities" in the mathematics of power that we "hate on" or say "white/s" to define the government? after all 98% (or more) is of "white" color and it is the "white" house and every President was white. I mean why does any color other than white get labeled as a "minority"? because were minor from a "superior race"(A. Lincoln said so) thats "major"? Just answer that for me, and than we can talk about other issues...
its called the white house because its fucking white. if you dont want another white president then get more minorities to run and dont vote for a white president. so many minorities want to group all white people together and think that we all think we are a master race. its fucking bullshit.
where does he talk about taking the white house? He talks about taking fascism out of the government which he says will take alot of time, forms of sacrifice, not in storming the white house but in protests and marches.
He knows they aren't going right out to do it immediately after. He says it to motivate people to join in or keep doing what they have been doing in protesting. Whats really hypocritical is you saying rage rules but completley missing the point of the speech/seeminly the songs.
Learn the def. of the word buddy; It doesn't make me a hypocrite to like the music, (In large part to Tom Morello) but not agree with how Zack's going about with his speeches. I'm not a socialist, but I can still appreciate a lot of what Zack says in his lyrics. I just don't think he's getting anywhere by waving the red star, then calling people crackers. George Bush may be borderline retarded, but by calling him a cracker, Zack's just hurting his own rep IMO.
LOL you obviously don't know the def. You said rage rules but miss the point of his speech and words. I never said you had to agree with the words. Learn to read and understand words in general. Bush would be a cracker, a slave owner, if the country was in the state it was back then that is what it means to be a cracker not just a white person in general. If you are white and would be against it even in that time....then you are NOT a cracker. He's just calling a spade a spade.
Yeah..I said Rage rules; as in the band rules/makes good songs.(like I said earlier, imo in large part to Tom Morello) And Cobra hit the nail on the head. Socialism leads to a 'utopia' where everyone is equally poor and equally brainwashed. If everyone earns the same wage and gets the same things in life, where does the incentive to succeed come from. It's a good thing people don't heed his words because socialism would take us back to the stoneage. Look how bad the common man in Russia had it.
lol ok so your going by who that he's socialist? before you thought he was communist and calling all white people crackers. He's really not conventional in anyway in his thinking so to classify what he wants done as "socialist" is dumb. He wants change and is flexible enough to try something new if he sees it's not working....BUT we have to try first...because what we have now....IS NOT WORKING. Don't bother to comment if you don't understand his meaning....and his meaning is to at least TRY
The best rap rock funk band eveer! I got all the albums !!!! When i heard on tv that they are comeing back i was like ,,FINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNALY!!!!!!" Come to Poland RATM!!!
You know why their shows are selling out so quickly? because we need people like them.
Let's face it. People are pissed, and rightfully so. Rage is the band of choice for a population ready to rebel. In this vid he reminds me a little of Abbie Hoffman.
Rage...please make a new album already. I can remember the rage fan community exploding when the supposed one off concert was announced. I can't imagine what's standing in the way off that. Maybe some of the band mates aren't getting along still, although I read that that was just a rumor. At least they keep playing shows, and they're even booked for some in '08. Best we can all hope for I guess. Rage is still the best ever!
I think Zack de la Rocha is one of the best political activists who ever lived. And I belive that this speech he gave was probably one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard and I totally agreed with what he said. RATM is the best. RATM forever!
yea yea i read that shit about bush its true i read it, to go to AK press youl get all your answers there any ways zacs speach fucken belongs in the bibble its fucken deep raw the shit.
Did anyone happen to get any of the cards or names of the vendor booths by the bathrooms ... the revolutionary ones with all the books and clothing and waht not? ive been searching eerywhere but i cant find em...
funny guy! Its haters like you that give credence to why people in the US cant get their shit together. When people stand up for themselves they get pulled right back down, by who? the police..sometimes, but most often its because of you! you construct the society of fear! you oppress your neighbor! What you reap is what you sow, homophobia is a hatred, and the air you exhale is filled with it.
It was still his own opinion and a little unnecessary but who cares if he thought there "gay parades" in SF. G. Bush made a worse situation out of something that has to do with homosexuals, by complaining that gay marriages we're all of a sudden a problem, people fell for that too! just another People magazine move to keep your mind off the War. as long as we all focus on getting rid of the real problems in this country like Capitalism and Kaiser with their "no free health care" first!
I traveled from denver to san fran for the show; Zack's message is powerful. We are only as free as the government allows us to be. We are not free. It will remain this way until all people unite, and start to take back OUR rights and OUR resources from those who have manipulated us, the players,into believing the game of govt and economics is just and equitable. There can be no game if the players do not want to play."Wake up."
I bet he was referring to all the rich white old guys who are running the world right now. After all, I'm sure he wasn't referring to Tim Commerford (bassist) as a cracker haha.
u do understand that not every white person is a cracker right? he says it to help u distinguish the difference of who is and who is not! no one should be offended !!!!
listen up y'all...de la rocha puttin' it down pa' los latinos! when he called the administration a bunch of rich, white crackas, the white folk around me was like....whaaaaat?
Awesome. Zack, another of our fellow brothers, going out there and representing us. God Bless Zack De La Rocha.
72Oswald 4 months ago
This is my favorite of his speeches from rock the bells that year. Not just because I was there, lol, but I thought it was so much more to the point and yet optimistic than the others. the crowd left that day absolutely empowered and marched through the streets of SF.
camalpuddle 6 months ago
The cracker comment goes against the "equality" that he preaches....I love RATM and I fought in Iraq, my point is that if it wasnt the United States foreign policy world wide, it would be Russian or Chinese....both of which do not share our view of civil liberties....whould you rather have their hand in the coomie jar? Us or the Chineese or Rusians? Believe me, it could.get alot worse
longsean2332 9 months ago
@longsean2332 It can get worse and I thank you for your service. But just because it can be worse doesn't mean we can't strive to make it better.
camalpuddle 6 months ago
i was there!
onecaliforniaday 1 year ago
You think his views are extreme? Wow, why dont you explore the world and find out what is going on at this time, the world is a dangerous place (even more while U.S. seeks conquest) just because you live in a hole dosent mean nothing goes on outside the hole.
Manolo1013 1 year ago 3
I love the Music but the political views are so brutal and extreme.
theMasterBeef15 1 year ago
@theMasterBeef15 ...its a must in this country....... as long as you have greedy, selfish OWNERS here...
As far as im concerned there arent enough brutal and extreme political views. The more, the better off we are
pinolace99 1 year ago
I was at this show. Amazing to say the least.
babbagebowels 1 year ago
What does he always have to mention race and further segregate.
jakeniggas 1 year ago
anyone here go to the safeway after the show?
just wild, if u know what i mean.
aja42091 1 year ago
Zach is an extension of Jim Morrison. Hes the only rock star of my generation who had the balls to go against authority. We'll never see another band like RATM!
CALAVERA63 2 years ago 4
John Lennon
ragamuff55 2 years ago
I was there, never forget it.
tonyAJ420 2 years ago
hes the modern day malcom X, and my idol, i envy you for being there.
so empowering
yandiggles 2 years ago
can anyone catch everything hes sayin, if so can you type it out for the rest of us. The sound gets too distorted for me follow it all.
IndivisiblePrinciple 2 years ago
Zack looks like the zohan a littile
forsberg1994 2 years ago
Im an anarchist fuck head I don't give a fuck.
Anihilist 2 years ago
que dijo de los mexicanos?
densillo 2 years ago
dice que el como mexicano sabe que el gobierno no actua para ayudar a la gente, solamente piensan en sus propios intereses
ed9crxsi 2 years ago
is zach wearing red, white, and black cuz of the book about race relations in early america?
syrensoundz 2 years ago
no wrong he's showing his true colors he's a reactionary fascist that disrespect my great nation China!
1949FUCKUSA 2 years ago
Your nation will collapse given your population and rate of consumption. You and your people will all die in the droves and it will be your country's fault.
Anihilist 2 years ago
RATM is farce!
TIBET BELONGS TO CHINA!
Viva communism!
Hu Jing Tao and Fidel Castro are good friends!
fuck obama!
1949FUCKUSA 2 years ago
"Viva Communism", the millions toiling in rural China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and the whole southeast Asia region disagree. Tibet does NOT belong to China.
BluesRaconteur 2 years ago 3
The communists-leftists-Marxist-Trotskyists we are the majority we will win! REDS Never fail!
the USSR will return!
1949FUCKUSA 2 years ago
Have fun with your mouth being ducked tape in your communist state, you cannot even take of your people. The USSR will not return. But yet again, have fun with Big Brother watching over you at all times.
BeastlyGerman 2 years ago
dude stfu, your arguments have no basis and your completely condradicting yourself.
"have fun having your mouth duck taped in your communist state"
if your head wasnt so full of mass mainstream media bullshit then maybe you could see the truth.
but hey only some of us are lucky enough to do that, retards im afraid are not so lucky.... i guess i could put you down in the later of the 2
yandiggles 2 years ago
hes not half irish. his grandmother was irish. if hes not born in ireland hes not irish.
Ian11Walsh 2 years ago
a true revolutionary
Anchoses 2 years ago
this was probably the best concert i have ever been to. im happy to see rage at least once before i die & be part of their reunion tour! again that was the best day of my life!!
madworld07 2 years ago
i was there....fuck yeah!!!!!
thunderdome033 2 years ago 2
So eloquent
ANONONJEWTUBE 2 years ago 2
hell yea!!!
benjamonn 3 years ago
"And all that Punk-ass police" Zach says.
kyo221 3 years ago
im with zack, i'm tired of you rich white crackers...
fresheggot 3 years ago 7
Im With You and Zach
ZeroSkater62095 3 years ago
Why cant more people think like us,And see the shit we see?
What a shame..
ZeroSkater62095 3 years ago
Zack couldn't run for office cos no-one would take him seriously and not enough people in America share the same views as him
physcopolo 3 years ago
not only that
he WON'T run for office cause he knows that even if he becomes president or emperor of the world it wouldn't change a thing about exploitation and oppression of the few to the many. he knows that the people are the ones who will free themselves with their collective and united struggle he is just doing his part in agitating and raising political awareness
bikibaws 3 years ago 2
"Punk-ass police" - LMAO, Zack is such a dork sometimes!
VCK9009 3 years ago
Haa =)
ZeroSkater62095 3 years ago
I think he's promoting an idealistic society which can't be accompished. The closest thing to what Zack wants, will be what Obama does. Obama, in my opinion, will crack under the pressures of an international crisis, and just give what the enemy, or any country, what they want.
RJB610121 3 years ago
What a great man.
Zildjiann 3 years ago 2
Fuck Yeah!
ZeroSkater62095 3 years ago
You know, I like Zack, but why doesn't he do anything about it. Why doesn't he run for office or something. It seems like he's all talk
RJB610121 3 years ago
"The structure is set ya neva change it with a ballot pull". Zacks own words. He does something about it, in his own way. But rather than using the flawed system humorously dubbed "democracy", in which only the very richest candidates ever have a chance of being elected, never mind actually have a chance to change anything, he chooses to reach out to people through his music and concerts. Also, check out the, largely unpublicized, work and protesting he does in Mexico.
Libri 3 years ago
Run for office? That's kind of a joke man, if you think that's actually going to accomplish anything. He's trying to wake people up.
Ryan9145X 3 years ago
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!
bikibaws 3 years ago
his speech is just very nice and he is a very love person
jimrambo98 3 years ago
Main point: Revolt.
ARMEDSh0t 3 years ago 2
Thats so true!
griggie78 3 years ago
He speaks the truth and tells in his own way its mesmorising!
masterblode 3 years ago 10
If Zack wasn't reading all the shit people were posting on this video, he'd realise his message did not get through at all.
JoelT32 3 years ago
If he was, pardon me.
JoelT32 3 years ago
they want you divided they divide you by race divide you by gender divide you by location and class too busy fighting over all these things to notice the real enemy
Blahsmack 3 years ago
i fucking agree with zac de la rocha
Dionte900 3 years ago 2
dopest show ever
ghostfacekillah1919 3 years ago
no more race discussion on this video. it's fucking pointless and retarded. it's not a message for race. pointless. idiotic. bigotted.
just shut the fuck up
and listen.
metropoliszero 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
alot of crackers in the audience... the message falls into deaf ears...
soulinrevolt 3 years ago
thats a pretty fuckin stupid commment, although it probly does fall into alot of deaf ears.. but not all "crackers" are ignorant bigots that cant see the injustices in the american society, in a way ur rite tho because alot of those people like rage for thier pretty guitar sounds and loud vocals and dont truly dont get wut thier truly all about
mikeb420420 3 years ago
i just got off the phone with Zach (de la Roacha) and he told me hes offficially endorsing mccain
"its the most rebellious thing to do"
jimiydoorshamelech 3 years ago
lol... im fairly confident that zach doesnt vote for either party, by doing so it would make him the biggest hypocrit in the world...
mikeb420420 3 years ago
lmao we all know you didnt
asswipe
14mm2 3 years ago
I've seen that guys comment on another vid...
Don't feed the troll
Kasad9 3 years ago
lol thats hilarious got a kick out of your comment pretty clever
jhova002 3 years ago
does anybody have this speech typed out somewhere? i would really like to read the whole thing since some parts were hard to catch
nakon14 3 years ago
On wikipedia on Zach De La Rocha's page.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
I think Zach should be a little careful on what he's saying. We have to realize that our military could indeed back us up if we form with them. The government does not entirely control the military. We have to make our military realize that these crazy documents that we register and all of our rights that are being stolen by the state doesn't have to be. We just have to get these corrupt people out of our system and our military can rebel with us.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
Over the course of histpry the white man has killed and raped everything in sight. It's not hard to agree with what he's saying even if it does seem racist.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
You lost me at "rich white crackas." By saying that Zack put himself on the level of the Klan members who thought that killing "filthy n----rs" was the way to save the country.
RodimusBen 3 years ago
Zach is white himself too. According to the definition of racism he is still being racist, but you have to undertsand that he knows these people are corrupt, and it's these white people that are corrupt and in control. Generalizing is a very bad thing and is what started racism. But is it still generalizing if what he's saying is true? If they are all white? And not one man of African-American descent can get that power in this country? He's merely making a point.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
Do his fucking name sound white you stupid fuck . White people can never get his really message and black people never listen to him because he play rock. All you people need listen message black and white. And take our country, because not even Obama or Ron paul will do it. We need to it.
WillDOC2cb 3 years ago
I don't quite understand your paragraph. In fact, I'm going to copy and paste this paragraph to a letter and mail it to the white house and tell George Bush what a great job he's done.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
LOL, Great , then you ask him if Zack de Rocha sounds like a white name. Anyway, yes, I fucked that up.. All you people need listen to his message black and white. And take our country back, because not even Obama or Ron paul will do it. We need to take the power back .
Do you understand that now....
WillDOC2cb 3 years ago
Also, Tim is black and there is one white person in the group. and its not zack
WillDOC2cb 3 years ago
My bad Tom is black and tim is white.
but who the fuck cares. Listen to there message.
WillDOC2cb 3 years ago
Tom is part South American, not black.
spicyMcHAGGIS9green 3 years ago
it doesnt really matter
being black or white or hispanic doesnt make u any better at playing guitar or speaking about politics or rythm
chidorirockstar 3 years ago 4
I know. I was just saying that because someone thought he was part black.
spicyMcHAGGIS9green 3 years ago
tom is half kenyan/half white (irish/italian)
Stephanie198907 2 years ago
Man this guy speaks the truth...look how messed up this country is now all because bush couldnt mind his own business...i bet bush knew about 9/11...this government know EVERYTHING...
RoTteNCaLilOvE 3 years ago
check out zeitgeist......seriouly
luisnavarrette 3 years ago
just listen to RATM and youll freaking see how fucked the US is
hahaimbiggerthanyou 3 years ago
me5210, you can change a country, but you're not going to change the government. At a point it's still going to be the same crap, just different guys running it.
tudormarcu1 3 years ago
We CAN change our governemnt. These corrupts are from the left side. Liberals, if you will. They are the ones that issue these chips, these are the ones who create these absurd bills and tax us 50%. We have to realize that Bush has a lot to do with it and will be overthrown if he does get into ofice again, but hes not the only one behind the New World Order. Our forefathers rebelled against tyrants who taxed us 3-4% and they made that constitution. We are getting taxed at around 50%. WAKE UP!
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
yes me210 it would if you didnt have essentially a 1 party state. the real voices in america are silenced. kucinich, ron paul ect. you vote a "new" govt in it will be the same as the last one with a new puppet face.. i fear its too late for you. you sleepwalked into your own destruction..
COUNTCARDULAR 3 years ago
I agree, Ron Paul may have been a great victory for America if he were to get that position. I believe he simply didn't because of his stand on abortion as I have interviewed a lot of Conservatives that believe different then him. The people I interview believe that he has that fire in his eyes and understands what integrity is. This man has that passion that every other politician does not, it's too bad he's not going to win. "It's not the vote count that counts, but who counts the votes"---
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
whatis about to happen to your country is unfathomable by the normal mind. abortionists and following a false version of christianity is the least of your worries. its gonna get serious incase you hadnt noticed already. more fake terror attacks? or flase iran invasion.. maybe both.. voting wont change any of it.
COUNTCARDULAR 3 years ago
Voting won't, I only hope we can get to people in time.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
i like this band but honestly if they hate the country then they can leave, no one is forcing them to stay
ME5210 3 years ago
they dont hate the country, they just hate the goverment, just listen to their songs, they speak the truth about what the goverment really does.
A7X2955 3 years ago 4
well country and government go hand in hand
ME5210 3 years ago
Two very different things
MrHeavySilence4 3 years ago 4
no actually because if government would change the whole country will change, so they have something to do with each other
ME5210 3 years ago
Yes, but you have to understand that the state cannot change our country's history. They cannot change what we stand for, and what that flag and constitution represents. THE PEOPLE DO THAT! And that makes the state a very different thing than the land. Right now our rights are slowly being taken away along with our privacy. Americans do not realize this, they are too busy watching Hannah Montana, and the ones who try to wake up are too busy complaining about oil.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
ME5210- no, country & government aren't the same. The country encompasses all the regular people. The government encompasses 99% of the liars in elected or appointed offices, those who make the unjust laws in this country. It's like the bumpersticker: I love my country but fear my government. And all of us should feel this way, & change the government to a user-friendly power. Like Zack shouts: Wake Up!
5150bythenight 3 years ago
The country is the land. The governemnt is the state. These two things mean two totally different things. We need to march with that American Flag in our hands and we need to rebel in the name of America. Our goverment is Anti-American, they go against everything our constitution stands for. And they have accomplished so much brainwashing by simply hiding behind that red white & blue. America is a police state and we are going to have to either educate them or steamroll through them!
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
That's what RATM is all about right there. Great video whoever got this. I loved this speech.
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
i think i saw the mofo that elbowed me in the back, it was hotter than hell in there, viva la revolucion!!
RleeLloyd 3 years ago
Power to the people, no more poverty, no more racism, no more wars. When are we ever going to learn. We need to WAKE UP!!!
zorbadegeek 3 years ago
but quite another to heal the disease... patches are temporary...
what he is saying here is for americans to get off their dead asses and get educated get involved... that is where the true power lies... One has the World's UNIVERSITY right
here at their fingertips.
recticuli 3 years ago
TOTALLY FUCKIN AGREE!!!...what i think is...what zak would do if obama tries to take a picture with him,would zak say yes?
DetectiveUtah 3 years ago
he would most likely say no.
bv127 3 years ago
Right, and if you listen to Zach and his message you will agree that these "Renegades" come through every time something becomes corrupt. Our freedom is something that will have to be defended generation, after generation, after generation. We can only change this age we are present in and we all intend to do so. Let us defend our rights and provide a little future history lesson to renegades in the future generations! I'm proud to be a member of the revolution, aren't you?
xxXCALIBURxx 3 years ago
If there is no step by step game plan beyond the show... they are just spinning their wheels...taking one fishing can feed him for a day... teaching one how to fish... he will feed himself for life... It is one thing to treat a disease ...
recticuli 3 years ago
i watch this as a reminder of how crazy rock the bells was.
best concert ive ever bin to in my whole life.
zeppelinrocker71 3 years ago
that speech gave me goosebumps. Amazing speech. Wake up.
thesoulman573 3 years ago
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Love the band. Don't totally agree with the politics.
snowblind309 3 years ago
the band is all about that. How could you love them without loving that?
DoctorSensitive 3 years ago
They're not Communist. They're Socialist. And its not hippocritical, he's trying to prove a point. Some people do value his worlds follow in his path. Like me.
LittleDrumerBoy76 3 years ago 5
the only difference between a communist and a socialist is one already has control and the other wants control. i disagree with most of the the thing zack says, but god help me i love the guy.
CobraStyleDevil 3 years ago
Funny how hes talking about taking the white house and telling everyone to sacrifice, go to jail, die; and they all cheer, but they're just going to go back home and live the same lives; nothings going to change and he knows it. No ones going to march out of the arena and take the white house; why does he bother with the speeches? and isn't it anti communist to call them crackers? Kind of hypocritical to preach the 'everyone is equal' line, then use a racial slur. Oh well, great song: Rage rules
monox2k 3 years ago
Can you blame the so called "minorities" in the mathematics of power that we "hate on" or say "white/s" to define the government? after all 98% (or more) is of "white" color and it is the "white" house and every President was white. I mean why does any color other than white get labeled as a "minority"? because were minor from a "superior race"(A. Lincoln said so) thats "major"? Just answer that for me, and than we can talk about other issues...
HahaLung23 3 years ago
its called the white house because its fucking white. if you dont want another white president then get more minorities to run and dont vote for a white president. so many minorities want to group all white people together and think that we all think we are a master race. its fucking bullshit.
babber09 3 years ago
where does he talk about taking the white house? He talks about taking fascism out of the government which he says will take alot of time, forms of sacrifice, not in storming the white house but in protests and marches.
He knows they aren't going right out to do it immediately after. He says it to motivate people to join in or keep doing what they have been doing in protesting. Whats really hypocritical is you saying rage rules but completley missing the point of the speech/seeminly the songs.
X8Azazel8X 3 years ago
Learn the def. of the word buddy; It doesn't make me a hypocrite to like the music, (In large part to Tom Morello) but not agree with how Zack's going about with his speeches. I'm not a socialist, but I can still appreciate a lot of what Zack says in his lyrics. I just don't think he's getting anywhere by waving the red star, then calling people crackers. George Bush may be borderline retarded, but by calling him a cracker, Zack's just hurting his own rep IMO.
monox2k 3 years ago
LOL you obviously don't know the def. You said rage rules but miss the point of his speech and words. I never said you had to agree with the words. Learn to read and understand words in general. Bush would be a cracker, a slave owner, if the country was in the state it was back then that is what it means to be a cracker not just a white person in general. If you are white and would be against it even in that time....then you are NOT a cracker. He's just calling a spade a spade.
X8Azazel8X 3 years ago
Yeah..I said Rage rules; as in the band rules/makes good songs.(like I said earlier, imo in large part to Tom Morello) And Cobra hit the nail on the head. Socialism leads to a 'utopia' where everyone is equally poor and equally brainwashed. If everyone earns the same wage and gets the same things in life, where does the incentive to succeed come from. It's a good thing people don't heed his words because socialism would take us back to the stoneage. Look how bad the common man in Russia had it.
tcsMish 3 years ago
lol ok so your going by who that he's socialist? before you thought he was communist and calling all white people crackers. He's really not conventional in anyway in his thinking so to classify what he wants done as "socialist" is dumb. He wants change and is flexible enough to try something new if he sees it's not working....BUT we have to try first...because what we have now....IS NOT WORKING. Don't bother to comment if you don't understand his meaning....and his meaning is to at least TRY
X8Azazel8X 3 years ago
Let me ask you: what is this "success" thing you're talking about? Why do i need to reach it?
project2501a 3 years ago
"...we can be the greatest generation, we can take facism out of power in the united states..."
Fight the rich, not their war!
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Josh72707 4 years ago 8
WORD
BanJobe1 4 years ago 4
Respect! all the way from another lowly brother (and biggest fan) in saudi arabia. You face the same problems we do! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
rencrow 4 years ago 12
A Ron Paul supporter linked this. Oh the irony!
bobzilla211 4 years ago 2
The best rap rock funk band eveer! I got all the albums !!!! When i heard on tv that they are comeing back i was like ,,FINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNALY!!!!!!" Come to Poland RATM!!!
F1brawfa 4 years ago 6
You know why their shows are selling out so quickly? because we need people like them.
Let's face it. People are pissed, and rightfully so. Rage is the band of choice for a population ready to rebel. In this vid he reminds me a little of Abbie Hoffman.
SandstormFreedom 4 years ago 6
Hell yah man, im ready to fuck something up haha.
BlackTexas09 4 years ago
This is the perfect time for Rage to reform.
Psycarne 4 years ago
preach brother! preach!
feelmyice 4 years ago
J'emmerde Christoff Moulin vive Zach vive le che vive la révolution and fuck that shhhhhhhhhhhh
searchingmurphy 4 years ago
his speeches r the best
Ratmrox212 4 years ago
amazing
RATMagainstbush 4 years ago
Rage...please make a new album already. I can remember the rage fan community exploding when the supposed one off concert was announced. I can't imagine what's standing in the way off that. Maybe some of the band mates aren't getting along still, although I read that that was just a rumor. At least they keep playing shows, and they're even booked for some in '08. Best we can all hope for I guess. Rage is still the best ever!
YertleDaTurtle 4 years ago 7
Man i wuz they're!! ratm rocks! zack rocks
skinnyguinea1234 4 years ago
zach speeking is divine
navidsonthegreat 4 years ago
I think Zack de la Rocha is one of the best political activists who ever lived. And I belive that this speech he gave was probably one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard and I totally agreed with what he said. RATM is the best. RATM forever!
thesoulman573 4 years ago 12
do any of you think that dave mustaine knows more about politics than zdlr?
i get pissed off when anyone says that
renegade2551 4 years ago
they broke the mold when they made them
KeychainLove 4 years ago 2
yea yea i read that shit about bush its true i read it, to go to AK press youl get all your answers there any ways zacs speach fucken belongs in the bibble its fucken deep raw the shit.
ohmygoditstrisha 4 years ago
That happens to be my dad on the left in the red. How random.
justinpotterfilm 4 years ago
guerrilla union!!! WAKE!!!!!!! UUUPPPPPPP! ONE OF MY GREATEST DAYS WAS AT THIS SHOW!!
inzain24 4 years ago
couldn't have been said any better.
sunywoo 4 years ago
Did anyone happen to get any of the cards or names of the vendor booths by the bathrooms ... the revolutionary ones with all the books and clothing and waht not? ive been searching eerywhere but i cant find em...
NickyFree21 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure its "Yo! What happened to peace?" they have a website and myspace. i know they were at alpine valley so i'm guessing it was them too!
Spiderwebb01 4 years ago
Isn't that Axis of Justice? Tom and Serj's project? (=
eskimoe25 4 years ago
word... if cats woulda been handin out guns at the exit we woulda had san francisco on lock by the morning
anonomousone 4 years ago 3
right on
NikitaLion 4 years ago 2
zack is fucken bad ass i went to that concert to i was hoping we were going to riot in frisco, rage is the best fucken band ever
ohmygoditstrisha 4 years ago
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There was no riots because there was too many gay parades going on in SF
Segovia06 4 years ago
funny guy! Its haters like you that give credence to why people in the US cant get their shit together. When people stand up for themselves they get pulled right back down, by who? the police..sometimes, but most often its because of you! you construct the society of fear! you oppress your neighbor! What you reap is what you sow, homophobia is a hatred, and the air you exhale is filled with it.
Graham1983 4 years ago 17
well said Graham. There is no place for homophobia or any type of bigotry anywhere, let alone with a rage video.
jasperbuzz 4 years ago 8
It was still his own opinion and a little unnecessary but who cares if he thought there "gay parades" in SF. G. Bush made a worse situation out of something that has to do with homosexuals, by complaining that gay marriages we're all of a sudden a problem, people fell for that too! just another People magazine move to keep your mind off the War. as long as we all focus on getting rid of the real problems in this country like Capitalism and Kaiser with their "no free health care" first!
HahaLung23 3 years ago
Yeah I was there too. One of the best performances ever.. Zack is so awesome I felt honored to hear one of his speeches in person.
eskimoe25 4 years ago
RATM ROCKS!! Viva La RATM
Hero5616 4 years ago
I traveled from denver to san fran for the show; Zack's message is powerful. We are only as free as the government allows us to be. We are not free. It will remain this way until all people unite, and start to take back OUR rights and OUR resources from those who have manipulated us, the players,into believing the game of govt and economics is just and equitable. There can be no game if the players do not want to play."Wake up."
madmatt34 4 years ago
I bet he was referring to all the rich white old guys who are running the world right now. After all, I'm sure he wasn't referring to Tim Commerford (bassist) as a cracker haha.
YertleDaTurtle 4 years ago
Zack is fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But it was kind of fucked up by saying "crackers"...
im not offended...but there really wasn't a point to saying it...
great speech though!!!
RATM FOREVER!
TheHell2Come 4 years ago
u do understand that not every white person is a cracker right? he says it to help u distinguish the difference of who is and who is not! no one should be offended !!!!
NickyFree21 4 years ago
of course i understand it...
when he says "cracker" he means George Bush and everyone else who follows bush.
TheHell2Come 4 years ago
listen up y'all...de la rocha puttin' it down pa' los latinos! when he called the administration a bunch of rich, white crackas, the white folk around me was like....whaaaaat?
Rich, white crackas. Don't forget it.
blibertad 4 years ago
Holy shit!!! Zack looks way different. Bob Ross.
ElectricS45 4 years ago
Rage is amazing. Greeaat show
haterproofrobus 4 years ago
very nice.
voiceless00 4 years ago
FUCKING RIGHT RATM..
SICK CONCERT
Sensfan613 4 years ago
this show was sick my first concert (so fucking good)
Thegreatelwopo 4 years ago
Congrats, you're gonna hate concerts after this, cause nothing will live up to it for a while.
psycobetabuckdown 4 years ago
haha, i was standing in the front row, so close to the speakers that it overpowered my ability to understand all of his words
aligboyakasha 4 years ago
was it me or was that the best fucking encore that u have ever seen in ur fucking life.
gorrillacolt 4 years ago
absolutely.
pissedscotsman 4 years ago
god's play list
bdhammi 4 years ago