I'm pretty sure it's illegal to threaten a President, even a Republican President. Rap-Metal band Rage Against the Machine aren't just your run of the mill spoiled American commies, they really believe the venom they spew.
Thousands of sunburnt fans roared in unison and pumped their fists in the desert air Sunday night as reunited political rockers Rage Against the Machine took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Grinning, lead singer-rapper Zack de la Rocha pumped his fist along with them.
Seven years after the quartet broke up following de la Rocha's departure, the band returned with a vengeance to close out the three-day festival east of Palm Springs.
Stomping, shouting into his microphone, grabbing his curly hair and inciting the audience to "keep fighting," de la Rocha powered through songs ranging from the bass heavy "Bulls on Parade" to the anthem "Killing in the Name."
He also railed against the war in Iraq and likened Bush administration officials to Nazi war criminals.
"This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot," he said.
Hung and shot? Just hung isn't enough? Does La Rocha plan on killing the President twice?
Drummer Brad Wilk, bassist Tim Commerford and guitarist Tom Morello, who wore a hat with the word "UNITY" on it, completed the lineup.
"They changed my life. They made me a liberal," said sweat-drenched history teacher Rafael Ramon, 25, who had waited in a crowd packed shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the stage all day.
"All of America needed Rage to come back. They've been missing," he said.
Missing a brain apparently. La Rocha also states the America can only survive by destroying entire countries;
This whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel, that in order to sustain itself, it must destroy entire countries and profit from their (inadible) destruction in order to survive, and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to place down, generation after generation after generation...
It sounds like La Rocha doesn't believe in democracy, and placed in context with the previous quote, advocates violence to acheive his political desires. I'm somewhat familiar with RAM and their music, and I knew they were overt commies (red stars litter all their CDs), but this is just off the charts. Michelle Malkin calls it "Assassination Chic"
