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RMS Protest Song On Gitmo
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.
Let's bitch about Gitmo. Only one pillow per prisoner, the temperature is sligtly out of whack, the food is unnaceptable -- too much fat, they're getting chubby. Why not write a song about real torture instead of panties on someones head and loud Chili Pepper music?
BFD
And in other insignificant RMS fanbody/cult news:
RMS eats a meal!
RMS breathes!
RMS blows his nose!
What's next? RMS and Lyndon LaRouche announce their ticket for the 2008 US Presidential elections?
The U.S is a nasty place, no freedoms, Bush is a dictator, blah blah blah.
There are few countries in this world where the U.S. hasn't gone in and saved their ass from something or someone.
We spend more money on international aid than anyone else.
Yeah, we toast son's of bitches that commit capital crimes, but it takes 10 years and millions of dollars, unlike your precious Palestinian terrorist government that will go from accusation to execution in a few hours...usually skipping the trial.
Bush sacked U.S. Prosecutors you moron, not judges. And there was nothing wrong with it because those jobs are political appointments.
I am so tired of punk wads bitching and moaning about the U.S. while their own little third world, backwater hovel is taking money (my money) from us.
And if you don't have the guts to sign on and let everyone know who you are, then you can just sit down and shut the F**k up.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
the sons and daughters of democratic countries have their sympathies with the treatment of mostly terrorist assholes, imprisoned on an island which is mostly a totalitarian state?
it's kind of like looking at a molehill, and seeing great evil, and spending all of your time obsessing about it... and completely forgetting the mountain right over your shoulder
it's really odd to me
kind of an inability to have perspective, to understand scale, to perceive context
if the treatment of the prisoners in guantanamo bay were the largest problem facing the world, which the attention pointed to it would seem to suggest, then the world would be a very wonderful place
as it is, for every single issue you are worried about, if guantamo bay is the penultimate example of that issue in your mind, you seem to be extremely deprived of contact with the reality as things be in most of the world
why guantanamo garners so much attnetion, to me this speaks of people out of touch with the reality of the world, it speaks to me of western children
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it