Music Review: Jello Biafra In The Grip of Official Treason - Page 2

Historical fact is a staple of every one of the 30 tracks on this CD, but it is the way Biafra weaves a tapestry out of these threads of history that makes In The Grip of Official Treason a worthy addition to the collection of those to whom history is important as the guideline of what not to do when one achieves power. Biafra looks at the troubles being stirred up by the current administration against Iran and other nations, and explains in detail why that isn't such a good idea in "The Curse of the Wolfman," "Pirates of the Reconstruction," and "The Flute and the Cobra."

No one else would take so much time to explain the motivations of Muslim extremists in common American terminology as Biafra does in "Bloodbath and Beyond." Why? Because "that is not the kind of world I want to live in."

That isn't the kind of world I want to live in, either, but I'm not willing to destroy the world in order to save it as the Bush Terror War will do if allowed to continue unchanged. There has to be another way (as even Cato Institute suggested recently), but it takes an informed populace to see to it that our elected representatives — our employees — do what would be best for the nation instead of what is good for corporate profits at the nation's expense.

If you want to be one of those who can begin to see just how complex the energy/terrorism situation really is, and if you want to begin to understand how everything connects to everything else, you could do much worse than to listen to In The Grip of Official Treason as your introduction and your research outline. You might then understand why the only government entity protected by American troops after Baghdad fell was the Oil Ministry in "the first hostile corporate takeover of a sovereign nation."

Biafra has just begun his latest tour now that In The Grip of Official Treason has been released, and will appear all over the West Coast, the Mountain States, and even Canada and Belgium. His schedule is listed on Alternative Tentacles. Go see him if you can, he will leave you with much to think about.

But if thinking is too much for you, you can always go back to watching American Idol from the comfort of your couch.

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