[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

We don't need no more trouble
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.
What we need is love love
To guide and protect us on. on
If you hope good down from above, love
Help the weak if you are strong now. love

We don't need No, we don't need no more trouble no more trouble!
We don't need no more trouble

Wo! Oh-oh-oh!
We don't need We don't need no no more trouble!
We don't need no trouble!

We don't need no more trouble
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.
What we need is love love
To guide and protect us on. on
If you hope good down from above, love
Help the weak if you are strong now. love

We don't need no trouble;
What we need is love. Oh, no!
We don't need - we don't need - no more trouble!
Lord knows, we don't need no trouble!

We don't need We don't need trouble no more trouble -
no more trouble - no more trouble!
Seek happiness! Oh, get excited and forget your woes!
Come on my people know, you all and speak of love.

Oh, yeah!

We don't need no trouble;
What we need is love, now. What we need is love!
We don't need Oh, we don't need no more trouble!
We don't need, no - we don't need no trouble!
We don't need- no, brothers and sisters ... no more trouble!

We don't need no trouble; we don't need no trouble!
We don't need no trouble!
What we need is love!

We don't need - we don't need no more - we don't need -
no more trouble - we don't need no more trouble!
Trouble we don't need we don't need,
We don't need Lord, knows! -
we don't need no more war no more trouble.
No more trouble - we don't need no more - more trouble

what we need is love sweet love

[mangajunky]

I don't think that he reads the Sonic Youth message board.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

HIM said that until there are no longer any first nor second class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, then the dream of lasting peace and world citizen will remain but a fleeting illusion..

to be pursued.. but never obtained.

Mr President-Elect,

We get it, this is a 'post-racial' society and the Democratic Party would like to apologize for the whole civil war thing and especially for the dixiecrats..

but Mr. Obama, remember, that until there are no longer any first or second class citizens of any nation, there shall be war. You may be black, and American can pretend it is no longer racist with this single, uplifting gesture, however, never forget that the Afghanis are equally people, they are not second class citizens to American security and geopolitical concerns. Remember that Colombians are people, that the Mexicans are people, that the Iranians are people, that the Iraqis are people, the the Indonesians are people, that the Georgians, and the Russians, are all people.. the Congolese, the Somalis, the Ugandans, the Sudanese, these are all people. You must accept peace for the world, and not offer us any more war.

Let our hope be not a dream, pray for peace, live for peace, live for love. WAR IS ONLY HATE, EVERYWHERE AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCE.

Peace and Love,
Habte Selassie

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

"Letter To The President"

Uhh.. dear Mr. President
Whas happenin?
I'm writin you because, s**t is still real f**ked up in my neighborhood
Pretty much the same way, right around the time when you got elected
Ain't nothin changed
All the promises you made, before you got elected..
.. they ain't came true

[2Pac]
Tell me what to do, these ni**az actin up in the hood
Send mo' troops, dear Mr. President
(Me and my homies is wonderin what's goin on.. holla!)
Tell me what to do, these ni**az actin up in the hood
Send mo' troops..

Why should I lie, when I can dramatize?
ni**az fell victim to my lyrics, now traumatized
Simply by spittin I've been blessed given riches, enemies suspicious
cause I'm seldom in the company of bi**hes
Plus the concepts I depict, so visual, that you can kiss
each and every trick or bi**h, inside the s**t I kick
My heaviest verse'll move a mountain
Casualties in ma*s amounts, brothers keep countin
f**k the friendships, I ride alone
Destination Death Row, finally found a home
Plus all my homies wanna die, call it euthanasia
Dear Lord, look how sick this ghetto made us, sincerely
yours I'm a thug, the product of a broken home
Everybody's doped up, ni**a what you smokin on?
Figure if we high they can train us
but then America f**ked up and blamed up
I guess it's cause we black that we targets
My only fear is God, I spit that hard s**t
In case you don't know, I let my pump go
Get ?ride for M'Thulu? like I ride for Geronimo
Down to die, for everything I represent
Meant every word, in my letter to the President

Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops
(What should I do?)
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops

[Kastro]
Oh youse a ball in the White House, I hope you comfortable
cause yo I spend my nights out, with the lights out
under the safety of darkness, amongst the crazed and the heartless
and young soul bros, ready to rode a starship
Launch it, leave a ni**a flat for scratch, the Godless
I gotta get chips, but you can't understand that
Wanna ban rap? Stand back, before you get hurt
It's the only thing makin pay besides smoke and work
On a mission listen more chips my goal and position
First on my decision I realized the same ni**a
Trippin to drastic measures tryin to get stacks of cheddar
Muh'f**kers hate cops, wait it ain't gettin better
But you keep, tellin us, that it is
while your motherf**kin troops keep killin our kids, dig
Don't be surprised if you see us
Dumpin with nuttin but artillery to free us, motherf**ker

Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops

[Edi Amin]
Strapped and angry, with no hope and heartbroke
Fightin first my trained brain until it's not so
It's hostile, ni**az lick shots to watch the glocks glow
Cadres of coppers patrol us like we some animals
And it ain't no peace, my peace a piece on my streets
to people beefin and things, squeakin on they beefs for weeks
Mr. President, it's evident, nobody really care
for a struggle out the gutter, twenty-two with gray hair
I was raised to raise hell, frail and my heart stale
So I'ma bring hell to earth until my heart fail
But y'all play fair, give me and mine, I'll share
Til y'all show us you care, it's gon' be mayhem out here
Me and these 223'sll freeze the biggest with ease
I'm still a ni**a you fear, bring the beast to his knees
and I've been born to represent, for that I've been heaven sent
And I meant, every word, in my letter, to the President

s**t is still f**ked up y'all
And y'all wonder when it's gon' get better
and it ain't gon' get better

[2Pac]
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up..

Heavenly Father may I holla at you briefly
I wanna meet the President, but will he meet me?
He's scared to look inside the eyes of a Thug ni**a
We tired of bein scapegoats for this capitalistic drug dealin
How hypocritical is Liberty?
That blind bi**h ain't never did s**t for me
My history, full of casket and scars
My own black nation at war, whole family behind bars
And they wonder why we scarred, thirteen lookin hard
Sister had a baby as an adolescent, where was God?
Somewhere in the middle of my mind
is a ni**a on the tightrope, screamin let him die
Can't lie I'm a thug, drownin in my own blood
Lookin for the reason that my momma's strung out on drugs
Down to die, for everything I represent
Meant every word, in my letter to the President

[Big Syke]
Blacks is broke, think it's a joke that we livin low?
Y'all sniffin blow and postin what they hittin fo'?
Tell the secretary it's necessary we get paid
Look what you made, little kids gettin sprayed
Day after day, and night after night
Battles and wars to the daylight
We might change and rearrange if you do somethin
Til then we gonna keep it comin, Mr. President
Hehe
And I meant every word in my letter to the President
[2Pac]
Word motherf**kin life
f**k this ni**a think?Cuttin taxes, takin off welfare
We 'sposed to just sit here, go broke and die, starvin?
Motherf**kers crazier than a motherf**kin ??
ni**a this Thug Life, Westside Outlaw Immortalz ni**a
We fin' to hustle til we come up

Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops
Dear Mr. President, tell me what to do
These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops

Dear Mr. Clinton, s**t
It's gettin harder and harder for a motherf**ker
to make a dollar in these here streets
I mean s**t, I hear you screamin peace
But we can't find peace
til my little ni**az on these streets get a piece
I know you feel me cause you too near me not to hear me
So why don't you help a ni**a out?Sayin you cuttin welfare
That got us ni**az on the street, thinkin who in the hell care?
s**t, y'all want us to put down our glocks and our rocks
but y'all ain't ready to give us no motherf**kin dollars
What happened to our 40 acres and a mule fool?
We ain't stupid
Think you got us lookin to lose
Tryin to turn all us young ni**az into troops
You want us to fight your war
What the f**k I'm fightin for?
s**t, I ain't got no love here
I ain't had a check all year
Taxin, all the blacks and
police beatin me in the streets
f**k peace

These ni**az actin up in the hood, send mo' troops

 

[DeadDiscoDildo]

shut up.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo

shut up.

point taken. so just because Barack Obama is black means we can no longer challenge the status of war in america? bullshit! If Barack escalates the war in Afghanistan and does not pull troops out of narcowars in Colombia and Mexico, if we do not stop making the Ethiopians fight the somalis by proxy, if we do not address the zionistic tendencies of American policies... all of these geopolitical nightmares will coming crashing home and as it was 40 years ago when American cities finally were burning in the rage and frustration that was caused my Americans forced to go and burn down cities across the world.

Just because our President is black does not mean we can still go around fucking things up, and news flash, the Clinton adminstration which Obama is proposing to appoint as his own was as much a war monger administration as any other, if not more so in Africa!

[mangajunky]

try:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

or call: Switchboard: 202-456-1414

after January 20th.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

try:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

or call: Switchboard: 202-456-1414

after January 20th.

this was what you call an "Open letter"

besides, the president has never been one to take his mail very seriously, an example:

In 1942 FDR received several personal communications from a very close friend of his, a one Rabbi Stephen Wise, head of the World Jewish Congress, corroborating state department reports that nearly 2 MILLION people had already been mass murdered by the Nazis. The US president refused to believe the report...

[[Sandbag]]

yeah fuck it
the first thing he should do in his mandate is pull the troops out of every country

wars are unnecessary anywhere and under any circumstances

if there's a place where there is a need to recover and install the democracy its the usa not the middle east

[Derek]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

I don't think that he reads the Sonic Youth message board.

What're you talking about? Barack Obama chills to Bad Moon Rising all the time!

Once you go Barack, you can never go back!

[floatingslowly]

OUT OF THE RUINS
OUT FROM THE WRECKAGE
CAN`T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THIS TIME
WE ARE THE CHILDREN
THE LAST GENERATION
WE ARE THE ONES THEY LEFT BEHIND
AND I WONDER WHEN WE ARE EVER GONNA CHANGE
LIVING UNDER THE FEAR, TILL NOTHING ELSE REMAINS

WE DON`T NEED ANOTHER HERO
WE DON`T NEED TO KNOW THE WAY HOME
ALL WE WANT IS LIFE BEYOND
THUNDERDOME

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING
WE CAN RELY ON
THERE`S GOTTA BE SOMETHING BETTER OUT THERE
LOVE AND COMPASSION
THEIR DAY IS COMING
ALL ELSE ARE CASTLES BUILT IN THE AIR
AND I WONDER WHEN WE ARE EVER GONNA CHANGE
LIVING UNDER THE FEAR TILL NOTHING ELSE REMAINS

ALL THE CHILDREN SAY
WE DON`T NEED ANOTHER HERO
WE DON`T NEED TO KNOW THE WAY HOME
ALL WE WANT IS LIFE BEYOND
THUNDERDOME

SO WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR LIFES
WE LEAVE ONLY A MARK
WILL OUR STORY SHINE LIKE A LIGHT
OR END IN THE DARK
GIVE IT ALL OR NOTHING

WE DON`T NEED ANOTHER HERO
WE DON`T NEED TO KNOW THE WAY HOME
ALL WE WANT IS LIFE BEYOND
THUNDERDOME

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by [Sandbag]

yeah fuck it
the first thing he should do in his mandate is pull the troops out of every country

wars are unnecessary anywhere and under any circumstances

if there's a place where there is a need to recover and install the democracy its the usa not the middle east

yeh that sure would make the situation better.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by [Sandbag]

yeah fuck it
the first thing he should do in his mandate is pull the troops out of every country

wars are unnecessary anywhere and under any circumstances

if there's a place where there is a need to recover and install the democracy its the usa not the middle east

Yes, only because the US military has not been involved in many of the solutions, only the fucking problems, and that is embarrassing that Americans are forced to go around the world in uniform doing the dirty work.

[mangajunky]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Yes, only because the US military has not been involved in many of the solutions, only the fucking problems, and that is embarrassing that Americans are forced to go around the world in uniform doing the dirty work.

and so, has this post solved anything?
Other than praying and complaining on message boards, have you actually done anything to amend the situation. Did you vote or do you just dismiss all politics and the US government.

If you find that the current government is completely corrupt and is the source of so many problems in the world, then the only solution is to overthrow it...oh, I'm sorry. That might involve some kind of aggressive action. Yeah, I guess you're right. War solves nothing. There's never anything worth fighting for.

I'm not the kind of person to tell anyone to get out of my country. That's just pathetic...but I AM the kind of person that says, if you don't like it, then fight to change it.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

and so, has this post solved anything?
Other than praying and complaining on message boards, have you actually done anything to amend the situation. Did you vote or do you just dismiss all politics and the US government.



I'm not the kind of person to tell anyone to get out of my country. That's just pathetic...but I AM the kind of person that says, if you don't like it, then fight to change it.

Communication is the key. If am stuck in front of the computer, then I am communicating to you all out there. If I am on the street then I am communicating to the people. If I am on the bus, or at school, or at work, or getting a bite to eat, or smoking a joint behind a building, or teaching a class to the youth, in all these things, communication is the key.

These are more powerful than political machines. If we communicate our ideas, our grievances, our laughs, our petty complaints, then we will find both solace and solution.

If we fail to communicate then we are doomed. There is only modern war because the people of the modern world fail to communicate their dissent and inadvertently support war.

[mangajunky]

Communication is just a part of it without action nothing happens.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

Communication is just a part of it without action nothing happens.

communication is an action, and it is the action that happens within all other activities.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

and so, has this post solved anything?

why is there something so wrong with just voicing your opinion over something political rather than talking shit like most of us do here most of the time?

not just directed at you, more just wondering why there is so much angst in this thread about posting yr thoughts on a topic just because it wont necessarily reach the intended target. I think he is aware of this, and aware that any letters he might write wouldn't be read... and is just throwing it out there for discussion. on a discussion board.

[mangajunky]

#1 - Because he didn't vote
because he's so against the "shitstem"

[phoenix]

I believe people should all vote

but then I dont believe that if you don't, you shouldnt be allowed to talk politics.

imho voting should be compulsary in all democractic governments.