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Lynching Party Politics

from Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry by Active Minds

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about

This song was originally written many years ago after somebody had asked me the question referred to in the song. It wasn’t meant in an entirely serious way, I guess, but it was serious enough to make me think about the way we look at those who we may, for whatever reason, dislike intensely.
No matter how much I despise somebody for what they do, I don’t want to kill them. We should be trying to change things in the world around us, and that generally means changing hearts and minds of people. Vengeful violence is not part of that process – no matter who it is aimed against.
We’ve recently seen welcome uprisings against some of the world’s more vicious dictators. People who’ve lived under the yoke of repression have at last found the courage to speak out and stand up for themselves. In such circumstances, violence may become inevitable. But what also happens all too frequently is that once the dictators have been effectively removed from power, there is an orgy of bloodlust carried out in the name of “justice”.
To take pleasure in such violence will not help to bring about the more compassionate future that we so desperately need. It is a cycle of violence which has got us where we are today, and one which needs to be broken if we are to move forward to a better tomorrow.

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Someone came up and asked me something just the other day. What they asked took me aback – I just didn’t know what to say. They said, “If you could get away with it, who would you like to kill?” And I can honestly say that the whole idea just made me ill. Do you think it can possibly help in any situation to think about your enemies and visualise their extermination? Don’t be obsessed with vengeance, and settling old scores – such attitudes are responsible for oppression, hate and wars. A lynch-mob form of “justice” – a tooth for a tooth. In thousands of years it’s got us nowhere – look around and see the proof. Yeah, I know the World’s a mess, but I believe that the solution will come through understanding and not through violent retribution.

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from Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry, released September 14, 2012

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