Well, Amos, and Bobert....you actually said it..but you didn't see it.
and here is the quote, "...magazine and he purdy much said what I am sayin' and that is that folk musicans are supposed to be like "reporters"..."

So, if that is the case, and I somewhat agree, (though possibly more than reporters)...reporting what, to where???..for what??...You mean like 'Up from the street?' Common people to common people? From the bottom up?? If you meant those, I heartily agree!!...Why???
Because is certainly isn't happening from the top down!! All we get are lies, fronting a 'cause', as a masquerade, as an attempt to FOOL us, while back room deals are cut, and commerce pays off their cronies...and if the condition of the country slips, or we go further into debt, accommodating lucrative profiteering, in passing bills that are full of shit...except, for those benefactors of the back room deals!

Hey, LBJ and Vietnam was exactly the same fucking thing!..and while organized crime, mixed with elements of the intelligence community, and military made billions from selling arms to the Shah of Iran, from our Vietnam inventories, and the Golden Triangle churned out drugs..they drug the war out..to exact every profit they could make of it!!! While the C***suckers, negotiated for 14 months ON THE SHAPE of the table, for the Paris Peace talks, our brothers and sisters were getting snuffed out there..and just as bad, we were doing a lot of snuffing of our own. They we actually in no fucking hurry, to end the war...BUT...the debate went on in Washington, and in our press....and NEVER mentioned the real reason we stayed so long!!!
And its IS the same fucking thing going on today!! AIN'T nobody in the beltway telling you or us, what is REALLY happening, and why..are they???....but...they have managed to get this fraudulent debate going on that has 'right' vs. 'left' distract and occupy everyone's minds, while they are at work, AGAIN!!....DON'T BE A PART OF IT!!!!
It is a smokescreen, and they are not listening, are they??...We just have to accept whatever crap they say, and be conditioned to accept any and all bullshit, profiteering bill the pass..at our freedom's expense!....and all the lower level party guys applaud them....only because, it was a 'score' for 'their side'......only, their side, ain't on their side...BUT, take heart, as long as you blindly root them on, and get all excited about them, guys such as yourselves, miss what this is really about......just like before! IN other words, any progress, any solutions, and any work that gets it done, any productivity will come up from the street...up from the people. NOT from the top down...they are ALWAYS behind the curve. They are lawyers and lawyers get greased, no matter if they win or lose..and they will argue for innocent, when they know their defendant is really guilty. They make their living misrepresenting the truth, but winning 'legally'...and making 'legal', that which is criminal, either legally, or morally. This is what you have representing you...and they've being lying through their teeth to you, to get you to trust them..........and you, and Amos so stall-worthily cheer them on.

No, Pal, change is going to come from the bottom up..and it always does. It will start in the minds and hearts of ordinary people..and will be made manifest in the love and common decency of people....not legislated down and enforced by 'police' power!

Anyway, Have a Happy and Prosperous THINK!...(maybe even a 'remember'!)

GfS