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I don't have to tell you things
are bad. Everybody knows things
are bad. We're at war. People

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are out of work or scared of
losing their job. The dollar
buys a nickel's worth. Banks

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are going bust. Shopkeepers keep
a gun under the counter. Looters
are running wild in

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the street and there's nobody
anywhere who seems to know what
to do and there's no

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end to it. We know the air is
unfit to breathe. Our food is
unfit to eat. And we sit
watching

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our TVs while some local
newscaster tells us that today
we had 15 homicides and

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63 violent crimes if that's the
way it's supposed to be. We all
know things are

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bad. Worse than bad, they're
crazy. It's like everything
everywhere is going

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crazy. So we don't go out
anymore. We sit in the house and
slowly the world

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we're living in is getting
smaller. And all we say is
please at least leave us

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alone in our living rooms. Let
me have my cell phone and my TV
and my

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PlayStation. I won't say
anything. Just leave us alone.
Well, I'm not going to

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leave you alone. I want you to
get mad. I don't want you to
protest. I don't want

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you to riot. I don't want you to
write your congressman because I
wouldn't know

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what to tell you to write. I
don't know what to do about the
national

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debt and Katrina and the war on
terror and the crime in the
street. All I know

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is that first you've got to get
mad. You've got to say I'm a
human being.

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God damn it. My life has value.

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So I want you to get up now. I
want all of you to get up out of
your chairs. I want

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you to get right up now and go
to your laptop, microphone,
audacity, fire it up,

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stick it in your ear and yell.
I'm mad as hell. And I want to
quit my day job.

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Are you ready for the audition?
Step up and take it.

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