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EDITED. Forum poster claims I used no facts in the song I posted or in the words to introduce the song. So, here are the facts. I trust that everyone knows how wikipedia works: articles are fluid and editable by anyone who bothers to sign up for a wikipedia account, but democratic; meaning that the content is policed by the users of wikipedia itself. Facts remain, corroborated by evidence, and articles not backed by facts are edited for content until claims are supported by published evidence is generally how they work. To supply the facts requested by a forum poster below I will default to Wikipedia articles. If you have articles that debunk the statistics of the wikipedia articles, please help democracy of information by editing the wikipedia article yourself. This song uses statistics that are part of United States Federal Law: 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act penalizes 5grams of crack cocaine trafficking as the same as 500grams of powder cocaine. 5 years of time is what resulted from less than an ounce possession of crack versus more than a pound of powder cocaine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986In the song I use 1gram / 100grams. I suppose I could change it to 5/500. This difference in penalization was somewhat rectified in 2010 in the Fair Sentencing Act down to a 1/18 ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_ActThe song also mentions ALEC and how the 1994 crime bill enabled them and the myriad laws that began the privatization of the prison system, how the system benefits from the free labor in the prison system, etc. Wikipedia article on 1994 crime bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act#Other_provisionsThe authors and signers of the 1986 and 1994 bills are very likely not people you might expect. Or you might. You should look them up and see who they are. I didn't mention their names in the song intentionally. 13th amendment of the United States Constitution which provides for free labor by prison inmates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_ConstitutionThe One in Nine statistic comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation press release: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-testimony-on-microscopic-hair-analysis-contained-errors-in-at-least-90-percent-of-cases-in-ongoing-reviewI was going for a Neil Young vibe. Thin electric guitars - I usually make them more chunky. Missing my old Acuma Final Mix mastering plugin. This was my first song for February Album Writing Month 2020. Previous demo was a bit embarrassing for quality. This one is a little better. https://soundcloud.com/rockstar_not/one-in-nine-by-scott-lake The forum poster also suggested that I do something about it, etc. I don't have an ability to show my voting record as a matter of fact in this post, but I'm proud to have voted to have the free labor clause removed from the Colorado Constitution's 13th amendment, which mirrors the free labor clause of the text of the US Constitution's 13th amendment. The measure was passed with a 66% for, 33% against (quite bipartisan thankfully - try to find any recent legislation passed by any statewide election with that kind of similar support) to eliminate the free labor clause. By the way the actual word used in both 13th amendments, and likely your state amendment, is not 'free labor'. I avoid using it in this post to hopefully avoid any potential triggering it may cause, even though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Amendment_A_(2018) One thing I will thank the forum poster that objected to my original post, I haven't yet written my US House representatives to introduce bills to eliminate the free labor clause in the US Constitution 13th amendment. Your angry post reminded me I need to do that! Apart from that all I can do is copy good ol' Woody Guthrie with three chords and the truth. I don't always agree with Woody's content, but dang he was a good songwriter.
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I like it. You should post this in the showcase.
I like a good protest song and this one is well done.
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I like it. You should post this in the showcase.
I like a good protest song and this one is well done. I didn’t use any PG products on it. The showcase should be for songs that use PG products. The drums are from EZ Drummer. I played everything else.
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Rockstar_not Subject line is, IMHO, purposely inflammatory, as well as subjective (no facts given just a loaded phrase) so WTF is it doing here. Put your song up and let the song speak for itself, but leave the propaganda at home not here on this music forum. I'm sorry if some crimes, no matter which ones or what you think of them, can or has gotten people incarcerated. As the saying goes: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. The aphorism doesn't go: if some TBD number of folks have already done the crime and are already doing the time then it is permissible for the rest of the population to do the crime, all they want, because heaven forbid we want to keep the total incarceration less than or equal to that TBD number. If you don't like the crimes that lead to incarceration then get off your butt and call and petition your law makers, rally and persuade other folks to also do the same, don't essentially just shout in their faces then effectively tell them to "talk to the hand," and vote (if in Chicago do that early and often  ). Put some real sweat equity into getting the LAWS CHANGED, if you have well then good for you, but stop the political BS and whining! Keep it musical, PLEASE I'll close by paraphrasing your lead-in as to future, and further, discourse: Talk to the hand. Larry
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I’ll ask to mods to remove the post.
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Apparently someone already has reported it.
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