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RMS Protest Song On Gitmo

Posted by kdawson on from the serious-parody dept.

An anonymous reader tipped us to a protest song RMS has written and recorded (while visiting Cuba) and is hosting on stallman.org. It's a sort of parody, although it's too serious really to be called that, in Spanish of the song "Guantanamera," in which a Gitmo prisoner talks about his experiences and mourns his fate. RMS wrote the lyrics in 2006 after learning what "Guantanamera" actually means. The lyrics are moving, and the recording, in Ogg, is competent — RMS sings well and he's got some amateur musicians from Cuba backing him up. Here are the lyrics and an English translation.

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  1. Gee I'd like to listen by catbutt · · Score: 4, Funny

    but Ogg only?

    Yeah I know its RMS, so ideology wins over practicality. But I'd think AAC would be ok, and then it could be played with iTunes or whatever.

  2. Not THAT bad actually... by Per+Wigren · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was expecting something like this...

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    1. Re:Not THAT bad actually... by aaron+p.+matthews · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you ever want to really irritate everyone around your computer...

      http://apmatthe.ws/random/RMS.swf

  3. Re:Antics like this... by laejoh · · Score: 3, Funny

    communists?

    That's SOOOOOOOOOOOOO '80-ties! You must have misspelled Al-Queda!

  4. Re:RMS = Richard Stallman by MPAB · · Score: 2, Funny

    RMS = Three-legged PMS

  5. Re:MOD UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    why should a country that constantly plays on how free it is limit its citizens to where they travel?

    Obviosly their freedom would be at great risk if they could travel anywhere, anytime. Only terrorists needs to travel outside of the US, anyway.

  6. Re:Score 1 for the Islamic extremists! by macro187 · · Score: 1, Funny

    O'Reilley? Is that you, Billy?

  7. Re:Score 1 for the Islamic extremists! by QuickFox · · Score: 5, Funny

    RMS should be put on trial for treason... Treason, yes. How dare he question the government of his country! After all, the US is a democracy. In any democracy, questioning your government's actions is trea... Wait... Never mind.
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  8. Re:Who or what the heck is RMS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you don't know who rms is, you're completely meaningless.

    Almost same with gitmo. Or was the 'protest song' the hard part?

  9. Re:Antics like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Next you're going to say country music singers should just shut up and sing.

    Actually, I'd just stop at "shut up". But that's just me.

  10. Re:i actually... by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    O'Reilly published a pretty good book by Stallman: 'Free as in Freedom' if you're interested in learning more about the man.
    That's published by O'Reilly Media by the way, not Bill O'Reilly. Bill's book about Stallman is called "Free as in Treason".
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  11. Re:Score 1 for the Islamic extremists! by dbIII · · Score: 2, Funny

    RMS should be put on trial for treason...

    You only get that for playing chess these days.