Excellent song brother! Wow! I'm really impressed. I dug the whole thing, fantastic guitar work, very cool, and your lyrical structure is spot on...tells the story cogently with a brilliant cadence and rhyme. Just a great job. I'm going to attach a video called THE MESSENGER. Check it out, I think you might be able to appreciate it. Peace...
in the spirit of the man whose birth will be celebrated next Sunday, please do something, anything, to help this young man who spends his birthday tonight behind bars. I say, enough. Let him go home and spend Christmas with his family. We've done enough violence to the world this decade while claiming to be a country that admires the Prince of Peace. The war is over. And a whole new movement has a lot to thank Bradley Manning for.
"Individuals have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring"
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
Concealing/being silent about a crime makes you an accomplice...
The guilty parties here are clearly the gunship crew, their commanders on the ground and ultimately chaps at Washington who started it all so they can fuel their tanks and keep you content and put by providing a low gas price for your SUV.
you know, your right. Every soldier should ignore all orders. Turn over everything marked classified to whomever they want, to hell with anything that could happen by doing this. Shit, we should have done this years ago. Are you retarded? Who was he to decide, I'll release these thousands of pages of classified pages. HE IS A PIECE OF SHIT, DONT ASK DONT TELL SOLDIER, THAT SHOULD BE THROWN IN PRISON WITH BIG BUBBA FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, THEN PULLED OUT AND EXECUTED AS THE TRAITOR HE IS!!!!!!!!!
@MrCopperhead1861 Going to take a wild guess here. Bet you never served or worked a job, where a oath was taken. This shitbag had no right releasing any info, classified or not. He is no hero. He is a traitor. The result of his actions, prob got or will get many people killed. What would happen if every soldier decided to do what they wanted? He is a little bitch. Would your boss mind you giving secrets about your company away? Would your family mind you telling family secrets with everyone?
@567hook you blokes who don't believe in the freedoms (like the ones my grandfather fought the nazis for) have a right to your point of view. thanks to people like my grandfather (and the rest of the allied army in WW2) and bradley maning (who has very large balls).
@antiussentiment I had many family members fight the nazis in WW2 my friend. So, by your thinking, it would have been ok for a man fighting with your grandfather, to turn over top secret info to everyone, including the nazis? It was NOT this shitheads place to steal and then release tons of classified info to anyone. If your grandfather would have done this during WW2, what do you think would have happened to him? He would have been shot as a traitor!!! You know that is fact.
@567hook NO. YOU HARD LINE NATIONALISTS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WAY OF THE FREE.. by my thinking, if my grandfather´s army was committing atrocities, like the nazis were in int 1940s. it would have been fine for him to expose this. and he would have been shot as a man with a clear mind (traitor or not).
@antiussentiment atrocities? What did he find, that would even compare to the nazis? The nazies? really? are you retarded? better take another look at the old history book again my friend. Im done with you. Like I said, I can tell you never swore an oath and/or wore a uniform.You know nothing of honor.If he found such terrible things, why release everything he could get his hands on, rather than just the "bad" things. He turned over thousands of pages, containing lots of top secret info.
@567hook probably you need to read peoples posts properly before you rant. i was talking about german soldiers exposing the atrocities of their leaders (not that it happened). they took and oath too, but do you think it would have been wrong? true the US has not killed millions like the germans yet.. but who's to say in future generation's that may not happen if it's leaders are not held accountable for the atrocities it has committed now. should they just be left unanswered?
@antiussentiment Please, I have to know. where are you from? What atrocities? Do you mean cutting peoples heads off while filming it to broadcast on arabic t.v.?No? You must mean the stories we all here of U.S. soldiers walking into crowded streets wearing bomb vest and blowing up 50-100 people. No wait, thatt was the other guys too. Yes , I remember, we put the Jews in camps and then gassed them. No.That wasnt us either. OK, I give up. Please let us know.
@antiussentiment If there would have been pukes like this shithead in WW2, turning over thousands of pages of top secret info, we would all be speaking German now. Think about that. Are you ok with the fact that some of the info he turned over may result in many peoples deaths. Our soldiers, informants, civilians? Have any family in the service? Would you have a prob. if this info gets them killed???? This traitor is NO hero.
@567hook you say ¨Who was he to decide?¨ Most folk can decipher right or wrong. why do you have trouble doing this? if your army is doing the wrong thing and you know and you do nothing, what does that make you? when the free cannot put up their hand and expose atrocities, societies fail. is that what you want? to weaken your great nation with uncontested corruption and evil?
You are a tard. Manning should be executed. Hes a traitor. Thank god every soldier doesn't decide to to whatever they want to do rather than what they are suppost to do. We would all be doomed. This guys a little puss that I hope gets his in prison by big bubba. Only prob is, I think he will like it.
Great song! I am not American and no US-hater. The real traitors are the previous administration that made such a vulnarable system. If one person (as the US authorities claim) can leak this much about all sorts of things (low rank military have acces to diplomatic mail, that's pretty braindead lol), then people with real evil intent must have leaked lots too, and more vital info? (just a statistically based guess).
Outstanding. A Bradley Manning Solidarity rally organised by the Bradley Manning Support Network in Sydney in collaboration with the Wikileaks Coalition is to be held in Sydney 10th April. Would love to buy this song. See Twitter.
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Bradley Manning is a traitor, and a unstable little bitch. And he will find it very lonely in Florence Colo when they lock him down 23 out of 24. As for this song, if it weren't so bad I would laugh. Please,please, don't offend our ears with this kind of third rate guitar music and singing. I love Gordon Lightloot and you suck at trying to sound like him. I equate this "musician", with the weird playings I heard in India, sounds like someone strangling a cat. Save your voice for hog calls.
@usarmymilitary You might want to borrow a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a Strunk and White's from that there socialist library. If a license was required to go online you would have failed multiple times.
Oh big deal I made a spelling error. So I'm not the best speller or perfect in grammar. But I'm also not a Piece of Shit traitor like Manning. I don't see how people think stealing classified military information and giving it to foreign individuals makes him a hero all it does is potentially puts lives at risk it only makes him a crimminal.
@usarmymilitary How so, He sifted through everything he released and took out everything that could endanger another person. Also if you knew that a government was doing something illegal by their own laws what would you do. See asshole it's much more complicated and AIR FORCE FOR THE WIN
@benillim4 Stealing classified documentsis illegal no matter what your excuse is. Yeah he sifted through everything all right so he could decide what to steal, and betray his fellow troops with. And the information he leaked still has the potental to harm people. So ASSHOLE if your going to support a traitor then move your commie ass to North Korea.
@usarmymilitary okay i can understand your point of view. Also If you really think all of the data he released were fine then you obviously don't believe that lying just to shoot an innocent is wrong
He didn't betray the troops - The BAE system which sent them fight in a Bradley with an internal gas tank that didn't pass the trial is the one who betrayed them.
Those who gave them depleted uranium shells, pretty much the same who dropped Agent Orange on them back then in Vietnam, are the ones who betrayed them.
Ultimately; Those who committed war crimes in the name of Americans and hid it from the American people are the Real Traitors of America.
This is wonderful! It reminds me of Pete Seeger's and Woody Guthrie's songs. I wish Bradley could hear it and be part of everything he started. I wonder if he has any idea how many people love and honor him.... He's locked up in prison but has more going for him than the war criminals in bullet-proof limos ever will.
I cannot imagine how would be locked for 23 hours a day with 1 hour of recreation per day and someone telling y in 5 minutes if ure ok the US is not synonymous of freedom and human rights developing Im so upset
Quite right. But good news, the new electronic 'truth storm' heralds arrival of a new global, democratic 'ITocracy' - overrunning the military-industrial-political system of the past 1000s of years. YouTube search 'truth storm' or 'ITocracy, to see. The public, tired of war & poverty, is escaping the old elite domination despite it's panic-bluster. The Internet is our new, better, leadership, 'authority' coming from easy, unrestricted cross-checking of everything by anyone.
great job, great lyrics, you are a credit to America, the real ones that are being screwed by their Government and big corporations and sent out to fight a corrupt Governments dirty endless wars. Good to see ordinary decent Americans standing up and being counted. I have shared this on Facebook, and I hope many more keep sharing and carrying the message. Good luck to you and thank you.
Don't forget to follow David on Facebook and read his note about this song. Also follow Drovics on twitter. Share this song on all social networks and bookmarking sites. David's music is online for fee because he truly believes in freedom and The Commons. He's got it out there for us to decide what it's worth. Let's do our part and support him, and via David, Bradley! This song calls for a studio recording. Let's not just listen and enjoy. Let's take action! Just my take on the situation. :)
the wikileaks events are kinda like a revolution with no reaction. sadly important people in a revolution only get free when the revolutionists take over.
Fucking awesome. This song is fucking awesome! As a musician, and as a member of The People (as opposed to The Government) I believe this song should have a studio version, and shit, let's vote it our second National Anthem. <3
David Rovics has all of his music online to download for FREE, unlike those who would own the music all around the earth... ;) So I say we support him. You can find him on Facebook.
This is a great song, and a great message, and by an large the comments on this video are positive and well spoken, which doesn't happen under mediocre videos. Just want to remind us all to keep up encouragement, because that's a better way to live, and.... don't feed the trolls.
Although the song is pretty good, it's not completely accurate. Manning couldn't have possibly read more than a tiny fraction of the information he leaked, and likely didn't actually see the war crimes before he leaked the information containing them. He did violate the law and his oaths.
That being said, I think what he did indirectly had a positive effect, and I support better conditions and less harsh punishment for the man, but he's not the hero songs like this are making him out to be.
@isaacpvl If you make an oath to someone thinking they are a law abiding military, and then find out they are war criminals, I think there is a higher law, and they broke their part of the contract. Bradley Manning put himself in great danger to save lives and expose war crimes. He is indeed a hero. How many people do you know who go against a large part of world opinion, the most powerful military in the world to tell the truth, risking torture, death, and imprisonment? To do what is right?
@freedomisrising You assume you know what his motives were, and you assume he had any idea what he was leaking. As I've said, he couldn't have possibly read more than a small fraction of what he leaked, and likely he didn't come across the few cables that reveal crimes committed by the US. He actually could have been leaking information that does endanger lives, the point is, he didn't know. He provided state secrets to a foreign entity without even knowing what they were. He is not a hero.
A lot of years of work has been spent carefully cultivating the American population. They have got a good chunk of the population craving to be spoonfed propanganda. It's a sad case indeed.
Good job. Free Bradley Manning. Excellent Lyrics. I hope more musicians start doing something that matters. I guess Bob Dylan is too old these days so its time we take up the cause.
@eileenfleming Far be it from me to criticize Bob Dylan. I love the guy and he has been a very big influence on me. In fact I've even seen him in concert 3 times in the last 6 years. I just don't really think he's written a good album since Love and Theft in 2001.
You asked what I'm doing? Head on over to my channel and check it out. I also wrote a song for Bradley Manning and Wikileaks.
hm, can't figure out how to send you guys a message at supportwikileaks, but thanks in advance for featuring the video on your channel. i haven't sent it to anybody other than my email list, really. if you know how to share it with michael moore or anybody else feel free. i'm sure he gets too many people sending him videos and stuff that he doesn't know, so i never bother doing that sort of thing, it's always seemed pointless to me. but if you know him, feel free!
I don't know how after thinking from time to time, where is the Woody Gutherie of our time how I managed to not find you sooner. I love your music. The truth gives me hope.
Fantastic. We need to continually expose the hypocrisy of the US. Remember, there are not many nations who torture people with solitary confinement. People in the US even have to go to Cuba for basic healthcare. Politicians in the US are corrupt and evil. I am soooooo disappointed with Obama - mister compromise.
Everybody knows, but why is it that so few really care? The Corporate Media have worked overtime to vilify rather than objectively enlighten, and the masses have dutifully accepted at face value the superficial pablum.
Thank you Bradley Manning, David Rovics and all those who stand for Reason.....and Peace.
HELL YES!!! I think there's a couple points where your tone could be better, so it'd be neat to see this perfomed by others, but the lyrics here are awesome.
Excellent song brother! Wow! I'm really impressed. I dug the whole thing, fantastic guitar work, very cool, and your lyrical structure is spot on...tells the story cogently with a brilliant cadence and rhyme. Just a great job. I'm going to attach a video called THE MESSENGER. Check it out, I think you might be able to appreciate it. Peace...
robinmorningstar1 2 weeks ago
in the spirit of the man whose birth will be celebrated next Sunday, please do something, anything, to help this young man who spends his birthday tonight behind bars. I say, enough. Let him go home and spend Christmas with his family. We've done enough violence to the world this decade while claiming to be a country that admires the Prince of Peace. The war is over. And a whole new movement has a lot to thank Bradley Manning for.
KamikazeKoscki 2 months ago
Private Manning should be convicted of treason and shot.
RealityCheckHero 2 months ago
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@RealityCheckHero
"Individuals have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring"
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
Concealing/being silent about a crime makes you an accomplice...
The guilty parties here are clearly the gunship crew, their commanders on the ground and ultimately chaps at Washington who started it all so they can fuel their tanks and keep you content and put by providing a low gas price for your SUV.
Orthodoxcrusader 2 months ago
Definitely in the spirit of the old protest songs sung by Bobby D & Joannie B! Loved it!!!
franola1 7 months ago
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LET HIM HANG! HANG BRADLEY! Let him hang till he be DEAD! DEAD!! DEAD!!!
HacimIMonban 9 months ago
@HacimIMonban
Hail Exxon!
Orthodoxcrusader 9 months ago
@HacimIMonban Traitor!
F0ra11Fr33m3n 8 months ago in playlist Anonymous
Can you post the lyrics in the Description? Great song. Thanks.
Neighb0urhoodWatch 9 months ago
you know, your right. Every soldier should ignore all orders. Turn over everything marked classified to whomever they want, to hell with anything that could happen by doing this. Shit, we should have done this years ago. Are you retarded? Who was he to decide, I'll release these thousands of pages of classified pages. HE IS A PIECE OF SHIT, DONT ASK DONT TELL SOLDIER, THAT SHOULD BE THROWN IN PRISON WITH BIG BUBBA FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, THEN PULLED OUT AND EXECUTED AS THE TRAITOR HE IS!!!!!!!!!
567hook 9 months ago
@567hook Typing in all caps doesn't add any merit to your Neo-Conservative dribble.
MrCopperhead1861 9 months ago
@MrCopperhead1861 Going to take a wild guess here. Bet you never served or worked a job, where a oath was taken. This shitbag had no right releasing any info, classified or not. He is no hero. He is a traitor. The result of his actions, prob got or will get many people killed. What would happen if every soldier decided to do what they wanted? He is a little bitch. Would your boss mind you giving secrets about your company away? Would your family mind you telling family secrets with everyone?
567hook 9 months ago
@567hook you blokes who don't believe in the freedoms (like the ones my grandfather fought the nazis for) have a right to your point of view. thanks to people like my grandfather (and the rest of the allied army in WW2) and bradley maning (who has very large balls).
antiussentiment 9 months ago
@antiussentiment I had many family members fight the nazis in WW2 my friend. So, by your thinking, it would have been ok for a man fighting with your grandfather, to turn over top secret info to everyone, including the nazis? It was NOT this shitheads place to steal and then release tons of classified info to anyone. If your grandfather would have done this during WW2, what do you think would have happened to him? He would have been shot as a traitor!!! You know that is fact.
567hook 9 months ago
@567hook NO. YOU HARD LINE NATIONALISTS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WAY OF THE FREE.. by my thinking, if my grandfather´s army was committing atrocities, like the nazis were in int 1940s. it would have been fine for him to expose this. and he would have been shot as a man with a clear mind (traitor or not).
antiussentiment 9 months ago
@antiussentiment atrocities? What did he find, that would even compare to the nazis? The nazies? really? are you retarded? better take another look at the old history book again my friend. Im done with you. Like I said, I can tell you never swore an oath and/or wore a uniform.You know nothing of honor.If he found such terrible things, why release everything he could get his hands on, rather than just the "bad" things. He turned over thousands of pages, containing lots of top secret info.
567hook 9 months ago
@567hook probably you need to read peoples posts properly before you rant. i was talking about german soldiers exposing the atrocities of their leaders (not that it happened). they took and oath too, but do you think it would have been wrong? true the US has not killed millions like the germans yet.. but who's to say in future generation's that may not happen if it's leaders are not held accountable for the atrocities it has committed now. should they just be left unanswered?
antiussentiment 9 months ago
@antiussentiment Please, I have to know. where are you from? What atrocities? Do you mean cutting peoples heads off while filming it to broadcast on arabic t.v.?No? You must mean the stories we all here of U.S. soldiers walking into crowded streets wearing bomb vest and blowing up 50-100 people. No wait, thatt was the other guys too. Yes , I remember, we put the Jews in camps and then gassed them. No.That wasnt us either. OK, I give up. Please let us know.
567hook 9 months ago
@567hook Australia.
antiussentiment 9 months ago
@antiussentiment If there would have been pukes like this shithead in WW2, turning over thousands of pages of top secret info, we would all be speaking German now. Think about that. Are you ok with the fact that some of the info he turned over may result in many peoples deaths. Our soldiers, informants, civilians? Have any family in the service? Would you have a prob. if this info gets them killed???? This traitor is NO hero.
567hook 9 months ago
@567hook you say ¨Who was he to decide?¨ Most folk can decipher right or wrong. why do you have trouble doing this? if your army is doing the wrong thing and you know and you do nothing, what does that make you? when the free cannot put up their hand and expose atrocities, societies fail. is that what you want? to weaken your great nation with uncontested corruption and evil?
antiussentiment 9 months ago
Great song. You didn't submit but Fresh Juice Party likes this!
MrNaomipitcairn 10 months ago
You are a tard. Manning should be executed. Hes a traitor. Thank god every soldier doesn't decide to to whatever they want to do rather than what they are suppost to do. We would all be doomed. This guys a little puss that I hope gets his in prison by big bubba. Only prob is, I think he will like it.
567hook 10 months ago
@567hook
You are brain dead. Manning is the only American hero since decades. People like him
do a stand against Nazi America, the biggest terrorist on earth. Without people like him,
Hitler and his followers would be still exist.
gluehweinforever 10 months ago
Great song! I am not American and no US-hater. The real traitors are the previous administration that made such a vulnarable system. If one person (as the US authorities claim) can leak this much about all sorts of things (low rank military have acces to diplomatic mail, that's pretty braindead lol), then people with real evil intent must have leaked lots too, and more vital info? (just a statistically based guess).
Anakronisten 10 months ago
Free Bradley Manning
info at Liberty Poet
website
campaign4liberty 10 months ago
Amazing as always David!
Orthodoxcrusader 11 months ago
@Orthodoxcrusader Yes he did betrary his fellow soldiers and country.
usarmymilitary 10 months ago
Outstanding. A Bradley Manning Solidarity rally organised by the Bradley Manning Support Network in Sydney in collaboration with the Wikileaks Coalition is to be held in Sydney 10th April. Would love to buy this song. See Twitter.
singfreedomable 11 months ago
Do you play shows?
DeflocculatedDentist 11 months ago
Great!!! Great song!!! I love it!!!!
avnerrietti 11 months ago
As long as he is not given a proper trial we all are in jail with him.
treephant 11 months ago 4
rofl, A traitor would have sold the secrets for huge $, An American would let the American people know the truth.
pseudoprodigy 11 months ago 2
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Bradley Manning is a traitor, and a unstable little bitch. And he will find it very lonely in Florence Colo when they lock him down 23 out of 24. As for this song, if it weren't so bad I would laugh. Please,please, don't offend our ears with this kind of third rate guitar music and singing. I love Gordon Lightloot and you suck at trying to sound like him. I equate this "musician", with the weird playings I heard in India, sounds like someone strangling a cat. Save your voice for hog calls.
SGTRVN1 1 year ago
Excellent.
OgreVI 1 year ago
Wow dude this is amazing guitar work. 10 of 10.
benillim4 1 year ago
You got talent but to bad its about a piece of shit traitor. Hang the Traitor Manning.
Wikileaks is not a creadible site
usarmymilitary 1 year ago
@usarmymilitary You might want to borrow a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a Strunk and White's from that there socialist library. If a license was required to go online you would have failed multiple times.
zenobia13 1 year ago
@zenobia13
Oh big deal I made a spelling error. So I'm not the best speller or perfect in grammar. But I'm also not a Piece of Shit traitor like Manning. I don't see how people think stealing classified military information and giving it to foreign individuals makes him a hero all it does is potentially puts lives at risk it only makes him a crimminal.
usarmymilitary 1 year ago
@usarmymilitary How so, He sifted through everything he released and took out everything that could endanger another person. Also if you knew that a government was doing something illegal by their own laws what would you do. See asshole it's much more complicated and AIR FORCE FOR THE WIN
benillim4 1 year ago
@benillim4 Stealing classified documentsis illegal no matter what your excuse is. Yeah he sifted through everything all right so he could decide what to steal, and betray his fellow troops with. And the information he leaked still has the potental to harm people. So ASSHOLE if your going to support a traitor then move your commie ass to North Korea.
usarmymilitary 1 year ago
@usarmymilitary okay i can understand your point of view. Also If you really think all of the data he released were fine then you obviously don't believe that lying just to shoot an innocent is wrong
benillim4 1 year ago
@usarmymi
War crimes are what's illegal.
He didn't betray the troops - The BAE system which sent them fight in a Bradley with an internal gas tank that didn't pass the trial is the one who betrayed them.
Those who gave them depleted uranium shells, pretty much the same who dropped Agent Orange on them back then in Vietnam, are the ones who betrayed them.
Ultimately; Those who committed war crimes in the name of Americans and hid it from the American people are the Real Traitors of America.
Orthodoxcrusader 11 months ago 2
This is wonderful! It reminds me of Pete Seeger's and Woody Guthrie's songs. I wish Bradley could hear it and be part of everything he started. I wonder if he has any idea how many people love and honor him.... He's locked up in prison but has more going for him than the war criminals in bullet-proof limos ever will.
asynkronos 1 year ago
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We featured this song on Linux Outlaws 188. Long live Bradley, long live WikiLeaks and long live David Rovics!
linuxoutlaws 1 year ago
We featured this song on Linux Outlaws 188. Long live Bradley, long live WikiLeaks and long live David Rovics!
linuxoutlaws 1 year ago 11
@linuxoutlaws
Awesome podcast by the way, keep it up.
xenofobiq 1 year ago
Well done David! Great song which I hope will wake up a few more!
pisquethethird 1 year ago
Great song!
Free Bradley Manning!!!
Kein Stasi-Knast in US! You aren´t better then the Stasi and KGB!!!!!
swilly10 1 year ago 2
Frank Sinatra you are not!..
dallas1963 1 year ago
Very Nice Dude !
Lotta2009 1 year ago
I would love to see a recorded Version of this Song!
MrKn4rz 1 year ago 4
I cannot imagine how would be locked for 23 hours a day with 1 hour of recreation per day and someone telling y in 5 minutes if ure ok the US is not synonymous of freedom and human rights developing Im so upset
Gh0StSecurity 1 year ago
Here is my hardcore music video protest
/watch?v=wuBYfwkCp04
Spread this and similar
music videos all over the world
because of the selective suppression!
(google English,sry)
nonkonformisten 1 year ago
Quite right. But good news, the new electronic 'truth storm' heralds arrival of a new global, democratic 'ITocracy' - overrunning the military-industrial-political system of the past 1000s of years. YouTube search 'truth storm' or 'ITocracy, to see. The public, tired of war & poverty, is escaping the old elite domination despite it's panic-bluster. The Internet is our new, better, leadership, 'authority' coming from easy, unrestricted cross-checking of everything by anyone.
PalmyBruce 1 year ago
Well done man Free speech is a duty right now It won't be long now the dark cannot exist in the light
ahamatmabrahman 1 year ago
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PonchoLopez 1 year ago
watch my hardcore
watch?v=wuBYfwkCp04
You are Anonymous.
With you we are Legion.
nonkonformisten 1 year ago
Great song! #wikileaks #imwikileaks #anonymous #streisand #anonops
nonkonformisten 1 year ago
Love music with a message. The NWDisOrder hates hippies and free spirit, let it ring, let it sing.
eliotbernstein 1 year ago 3
6,792 views, 271 likes Thanks for uploading, and more, thanks for raising your voice. Especially brave, considering you're from the US.
feckdrinkgirls 1 year ago
Absolutely fabulous. Never before seen a video I agree so completely with.
Excellent job. All my love and support to Bradley Manning - seems he's going to need it, seeing as how we don't really have "the law" anymore.
WestiGirl 1 year ago 3
Machination: secret plot or scheme.
it is out there now
next
me thinks
be care full
keep it up
we gotta stare at the Kaiser little bit longer
normankeena 1 year ago
great job, great lyrics, you are a credit to America, the real ones that are being screwed by their Government and big corporations and sent out to fight a corrupt Governments dirty endless wars. Good to see ordinary decent Americans standing up and being counted. I have shared this on Facebook, and I hope many more keep sharing and carrying the message. Good luck to you and thank you.
neil2381 1 year ago 5
you have done an excelent job by expresing with music, what many of us would like to speak out loudly enough to be heard by the shady government
elmolosho 1 year ago
GOOD POST! Great lyrics...get it viral and release Manning too!
cgbessell 1 year ago 4
cool song, but you sound like you are trying to not to wake the neighbors. you need to ROCK HARD please.
adlsfreund 1 year ago
Excellent!
ontour98 1 year ago 4
Don't forget to follow David on Facebook and read his note about this song. Also follow Drovics on twitter. Share this song on all social networks and bookmarking sites. David's music is online for fee because he truly believes in freedom and The Commons. He's got it out there for us to decide what it's worth. Let's do our part and support him, and via David, Bradley! This song calls for a studio recording. Let's not just listen and enjoy. Let's take action! Just my take on the situation. :)
freedomisrising 1 year ago 12
the wikileaks events are kinda like a revolution with no reaction. sadly important people in a revolution only get free when the revolutionists take over.
great song by the way:)
ruub1234 1 year ago 5
Respect David
We need more people to speak up and not be afraid to tell the truth ;o)
peace and love
mercy2000 1 year ago 7
lmao, great song mate, but unfortunately I decided to use youtube auto transcribe feature which guesses what you are saying and displays subtitles.
"called the cops and turned him in" shows as "afrikans attorney", simple hilarious!
ps3yesfan 1 year ago 4
I wish I could like this more than once. FREE BRADLEY MANNING NOW!!!
facelessklinkk 1 year ago 4
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awesome work!! XD
SkidRowRadio 1 year ago
awesome work!! XD
SkidRowRadio 1 year ago
Fucking awesome. This song is fucking awesome! As a musician, and as a member of The People (as opposed to The Government) I believe this song should have a studio version, and shit, let's vote it our second National Anthem. <3
MysticLycium 1 year ago 8
good stuff
flagstoneexpert 1 year ago 3
well done - thx! - your grateful nation
ThePirateNation 1 year ago
The boy deserves a medal
TimthedogLinehan 1 year ago
Super Lyrics Way to go Brad Manning a American Hero
garak99 1 year ago 2
Awesome guitar playing with strong lyrics that gets the message across.
High Five!
demoflare 1 year ago
Does this song remind anyone else of "The Hero of Campton" from Firefly?
anaemia 1 year ago 2
for those whoe are interested in the Lyrics:
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MrKn4rz 1 year ago 4
David Rovics has all of his music online to download for FREE, unlike those who would own the music all around the earth... ;) So I say we support him. You can find him on Facebook.
LibertyyTree 1 year ago 2
This is GREAT!!! Its like a 21st century "Masters of War." You got the gift, so shine on!!!
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apologiiiize 1 year ago 2
Wow, nice work! The lyrics are very good. Thumbs up
AmoreTropical 1 year ago 2
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Awakesdarkness 1 year ago
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Awakesdarkness 1 year ago
great as always
aerobique 1 year ago 2
Can u maybe post the Lyrics?
I love this Song btw!
MrKn4rz 1 year ago 3
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Awakesdarkness 1 year ago
Dear Justice Department, Where is the justice for the dead innocent Iraqis you built a nation for!? Free Bradley Manning!
polardiscoball 1 year ago 2
This is a great song, and a great message, and by an large the comments on this video are positive and well spoken, which doesn't happen under mediocre videos. Just want to remind us all to keep up encouragement, because that's a better way to live, and.... don't feed the trolls.
Awakesdarkness 1 year ago 3
This is very good! Keep up the good work!
LibertyyTree 1 year ago 2
Even if he wasn't a hero before, he is now.
alrsharp 1 year ago 2
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Although the song is pretty good, it's not completely accurate. Manning couldn't have possibly read more than a tiny fraction of the information he leaked, and likely didn't actually see the war crimes before he leaked the information containing them. He did violate the law and his oaths.
That being said, I think what he did indirectly had a positive effect, and I support better conditions and less harsh punishment for the man, but he's not the hero songs like this are making him out to be.
isaacpvl 1 year ago
@isaacpvl If you make an oath to someone thinking they are a law abiding military, and then find out they are war criminals, I think there is a higher law, and they broke their part of the contract. Bradley Manning put himself in great danger to save lives and expose war crimes. He is indeed a hero. How many people do you know who go against a large part of world opinion, the most powerful military in the world to tell the truth, risking torture, death, and imprisonment? To do what is right?
freedomisrising 1 year ago 6
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@freedomisrising You assume you know what his motives were, and you assume he had any idea what he was leaking. As I've said, he couldn't have possibly read more than a small fraction of what he leaked, and likely he didn't come across the few cables that reveal crimes committed by the US. He actually could have been leaking information that does endanger lives, the point is, he didn't know. He provided state secrets to a foreign entity without even knowing what they were. He is not a hero.
isaacpvl 1 year ago
@freedomisrising You're right, obviously.
LibertyyTree 1 year ago 2
Reminds me of Bob Dylan's Hurricane
ToddVanObben 1 year ago 5
This is great! Your voice & guitar style reminds me of Alan Bishop & his work with Sun City Girls (Horse Cock Phepner era in particular)
LitanyCrash 1 year ago 6
Great song!
bewareofyak 1 year ago 5
Awesome! Everybody spread this video! Make it go viral! ::going to check out other Rovics vids...::
ISeeFuckTards 1 year ago 6
I'm glad to see somebody is saying this. Why isn't this shit on the radio??? Why are we forcefed moronity?
Awakesdarkness 1 year ago 29
@Awakesdarkness
A lot of years of work has been spent carefully cultivating the American population. They have got a good chunk of the population craving to be spoonfed propanganda. It's a sad case indeed.
AugustusLarch 11 months ago
The truth!!!
rocksincurrents 1 year ago 6
This song is going around Anonymous tweets like crazy all the sudden. Way to go! Great song. Great lyrics.
AnchoroftheUniverse 1 year ago 8
@AnchoroftheUniverse That's where I saw it too.
rocksincurrents 1 year ago 4
wow david, that was great! really beautiful work:D
keep it up, the world needs more people like you, bradley, and julian!
JimmiBaez 1 year ago 6
Hey Dave,
We met at Tikkuns First Conference for Spiritual Progressives- you sang "They're Building a Wall" and blew me away then and you did it again!
eileenfleming 1 year ago 4
Man you are awesome! Keep the good work...
s2jcsile 1 year ago 4
Thank you, David, as ALWAYS ! ~*~ Your Heart is the Real Gold ~*~
ShaktiLila 1 year ago 4
Good job. Free Bradley Manning. Excellent Lyrics. I hope more musicians start doing something that matters. I guess Bob Dylan is too old these days so its time we take up the cause.
IsaacSloan 1 year ago 4
@IsaacSloan
BOB is NOT "too old" he just has not sang his heart yet on this topic and maybe he will NOT; but WHY criticize him?
"Look out kid: They keep it all hid! I'm on the pavement thinking about the government" and Doing Something at WeAreWideAwake[dot]org
WHAT R U DOING?
eileenfleming 1 year ago 4
@eileenfleming Far be it from me to criticize Bob Dylan. I love the guy and he has been a very big influence on me. In fact I've even seen him in concert 3 times in the last 6 years. I just don't really think he's written a good album since Love and Theft in 2001.
You asked what I'm doing? Head on over to my channel and check it out. I also wrote a song for Bradley Manning and Wikileaks.
IsaacSloan 1 year ago
@IsaacSloan MODERN TIMES released in 2006 is a musical Masterpiece!
And BTW-Christmas in the Heart overflows with good; for all proceeds are going to feed the hungry in America in perpetuity.
eileenfleming 1 year ago
hm, can't figure out how to send you guys a message at supportwikileaks, but thanks in advance for featuring the video on your channel. i haven't sent it to anybody other than my email list, really. if you know how to share it with michael moore or anybody else feel free. i'm sure he gets too many people sending him videos and stuff that he doesn't know, so i never bother doing that sort of thing, it's always seemed pointless to me. but if you know him, feel free!
drovics 1 year ago 19
@drovics Send him the link by Twitter. @MMFlint
pacufka 1 year ago 2
great song David, thanks for this!
stickynyki 1 year ago 2
I don't know how after thinking from time to time, where is the Woody Gutherie of our time how I managed to not find you sooner. I love your music. The truth gives me hope.
Aspiecelia 1 year ago 2
Fantastic. We need to continually expose the hypocrisy of the US. Remember, there are not many nations who torture people with solitary confinement. People in the US even have to go to Cuba for basic healthcare. Politicians in the US are corrupt and evil. I am soooooo disappointed with Obama - mister compromise.
bindudesign 1 year ago 3
Everybody knows, but why is it that so few really care? The Corporate Media have worked overtime to vilify rather than objectively enlighten, and the masses have dutifully accepted at face value the superficial pablum.
Thank you Bradley Manning, David Rovics and all those who stand for Reason.....and Peace.
PhilosopherSeed 1 year ago 2
HELL YES!!! I think there's a couple points where your tone could be better, so it'd be neat to see this perfomed by others, but the lyrics here are awesome.
Blogapult 1 year ago
Nice tune brosef.
tehjaxor 1 year ago
Awesome David! Thanks for spreading the word!
melbobs 1 year ago 13
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Dude, sell the guitar and send the money to Alex Jones
KimmoKuopio 1 year ago
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I hope this comment is irony.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
fantastic !! los angeles !!
petuniamighty 1 year ago
This is fantastic, I love the lyrics! Keep it up!
Free Bradley - from UK
tozhan 1 year ago
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Thanks for dropping some fire on this David.
pdmt99 1 year ago
Excellent. I was waiting for this one. :)
~Jessica Thompson
freedomisrising 1 year ago
woo 1st! Great job awesome lyrics!
natritious1 1 year ago