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Must See! Leftist Rocker “Rocked” by Own Security During Saturday Show

Rock and roll has long been a bastion of free speech, radical ideas, and dangerous characters. If you are of a certain age, nothing was better than pissing your parents off by blaring the newest Van Halen or Aerosmith song from your room.

Politics have long played a part in rock and roll, but usually the politics were left to a select few artists and bands and were usually decrying events in American history that NEEDED decrying.

Vietnam, Watergate, Civil Rights, racism, governmental overreach in the United States, all popular targets for political musicians.

I was never a fan of this type of music growing up. Looking back, I was pretty much a young Republican waiting for the right moment to emerge. I preferred music about girls, partying and cars. In short, I’m a pretty deep and complicated fella. Not, lol.

Anyone that follows rock music the last couple of decades undoubtedly know who Rage Against the Machine is. Rage is responsible for some of the more provocative anti-establishment music of the last 20 years.

Songs such as “Killing in the Name”, “Bulls on Parade”, and “Take the Power Back” became anti-establishment anthems, “raging” against corporate greed, racism, and abuse of power by the government.

My, how times have changed. These days “Rage” spend most of their time making sure all of the ticket buyers at their concerts have their Vaxx papers and have followed the governments orders like good little sheep. Rage suddenly IS the machine it used to rage against.

Legendary guitarist and noted commie leftist Tom Morello is particularly outspoken. A renowned Donald Trump hater, Morello takes every opportunity to espouse his lefty views to his legion of “fans”.

Hilariously, during a show Saturday night one of Morellos fans attempted to rush the stage, and Morello got some instant karma. let’s check Fox News for the details:

Tom Morello, lead guitarist of Los Angeles rock band Rage Against the Machine, was accidentally tackled by a security guard who was chasing a fan that rushed the stage during a Toronto concert Saturday night.

Morello and the band were playing their final song, “Killing in the Name,” when a fan in a red shirt jumped onto the stage, according to video posted online.

In the video, a security guard can be seen chasing after the fan, but accidentally tackles Morello — who falls off the stage — as the fan jumps down and tries to escape back into the crowd. Other security guards then grab hold of the fan before he can escape.

Now this is good stuff. Typically, when someone rushes the stage, they aren’t gently escorted off. Usually, security uses situations like that to unload on some unsuspecting fanboy. It can be pretty ugly.

Morello and Rage are a relic from a different generation. It’s nice to see legendary bands reunite, even if it is just to cash in on nostalgia. Hell, everyone wants to get paid. Their fanbase is a little older now and has some disposable income, so why not?

My issue is with their politics, not their music. As I previously stated, I’m not a fan of political music. I can tolerate it when there are crunchy guitar riffs and funky bass lines, as in old Rage music, but when they espouse this nonsense now on stage now, as folks of a certain age that should know better, it just comes off as disingenuous.

Earlier this month, the band returned to the stage for the first time in 11 years and railed against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

During the show on July 9 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin, the band broadcasted several captions on a screen on stage blasting the high court with one caption going as far as to suggest an elimination of the court, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported at the time.

This. this is exactly what we don’t need. Aging rockers, looking to cash a last check or two weighing in on the Supreme Court.

Call me old fashioned, but if you want to do a protest or a protest song, have something worthy of protesting first. Last time I checked, the Supreme Court decision on Roe V Wade doesn’t particularly affect a bunch of middle-aged rich guys.

Or maybe just stop? Maybe just leave your politics and your music in a time where they were relevant and stop tarnishing your legacy.

They may be called “Rage Against the Machine”, but when you are part of the machine you allegedly want to rage against, you just sound fake.

 

 

This story syndicated with permission from robm, Author at Trending Politics