So you think you have Nothing to HIDE ?

[90-percent]

15. Frank Zappa saw this coming - Joe's Garage Acts 1, 2 and 3 were all about big brother

Only Frank called "Big Brother" "The Central Scrutinizer"
MASS CRIMINALIZATION AND SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT were also themes Frank railed on in music and interviews


below from: http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/The_Story_Of_Joe%27s_Garage

It was about this time that someone
Came up with the idea of
TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION

Based on the principle that if we were ALL crooks
We could at last be uniform to some degree in the eyes of
THE LAW

Shrewdly our legislators calculated
That most people were too lazy to perform a
REAL CRIME
So new laws were
Manufactured
Making it possible for anyone to violate them
Any time of the day or night,
And
Once we had all broken some kind of law
We'd all be in the same big happy club
Right up there with the President,
The most exalted industrialists,
And the clerical big shots
Of all your favorite religions



-90% Jimmy

These times beg for a public figure of Zappa's stature. Sadly, there are not many here in the present that are filling that role. Zappa was going after these totalitarian righties his entire career. And he ratcheted it up a few notches when Reagan became President. He ran voter registration drives in concert with the League of Women Voters during his 1988 Tour. It's my understanding that doing the same today is prohibited? Just another brick in the wall on the way to totalitarianism.

PS - Brazil was one of Zappa's favorite movies and Frank and Terry Gilliam expressed mutual respect for each other. Gilliam did some liner notes for "Have I offended Someone" with cover art by Ralph Steadman, who did a lot of covers for Hunter S. Thompson