Comments on: ACLU Paranoia Rap: Weekend Entertainment

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:40:46 +0000

Yes, that was the point. They put out bland analyses all the time and Average Joe never reads them. This was an attempt to state an important message in a viral way. Compare it to a TV commercial.

By: Doug Ross

Doug Ross — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:29:56 +0000

Ping! They should have called this video “paranoid bed-wetters.”

The ACLU is a sick joke. And if most Americans knew their dark history, they’d be even more of a joke than they are today.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:32:41 +0000

I got the symbolism Jeff. Don’t you think it was a little overboard and paranoid in expression?

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:24:34 +0000

Watch it again, less literally this time. I thought it was an interesting dramatization of legitimate concerns, with hyperbole sprinkled in of course. In case the metaphor wasn’t clear, the monster is technology and the chains are the Constitutional protections that keep this society from becoming purely Orwellian.

“it has proven harder to keep chained than it was to build”

“it’s easy to tell if you’re guilty or not
and if you’re not, you shouldn’t mind
because it doesn’t waste its time there
unless it looks into your mind and spies a crime there”

“the steel chains put in place to make sure we stay safe
have been rusted into red tape that’s too easy to break
weakened with fear-based legislation
that cheapens the constitution with alterations
that are helping the monster achieve liberation
as long as it is not free, we are.
If it gets free, we aren’t.”