At Coachella, California lead singer, Zach De La Rocha of the band, Rage Against The Machine, let out some harsh words to President Bush.
After a seven year hiatus, the band reunited for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival affront 180,000 fans. Days earlier guitarist Tom Morello had performed a series of protest songs foreshadowing what could be considered Rage’s most controversial and rebellious performance to date.
After a series of ignited guitar riffs, Rocha delivered the following, “A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would’ve been hung and tried and shot. In this current administration there’s no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot…as any war criminal should be.”
AD LOADING...
“But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations. Way beyond elections. Way Beyond every four years of pulling levers. Way beyond that, because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel, that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries, and profit from their reconstruction, in order to survive, and that’s not a system that changes every four years, it’s a system that we have to break down generation after generation after generation after generation after generation. Wake up,” continued Rocha.
Needless to say the crowd went ablaze with excitement and joined Rage Against The Machine as protesters and rebels alike.
Reported By: Kendra Desroisers
