We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Stealing From Widows and Orphans (Eminent Domain)

from Protect and Serve EP by Blasted Athwart

/

lyrics

Stealing land for private use
Trampling rights just like a moose
Like a moose that tramples rights
Look to yourself when calling blights (1)

The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority
(because that’s why governments are instituted among men)
Wants to take a home from a man
Who worked on it with his sweat and tears
He mourned his murdered mother in that house
And they want to take it.
Do you know why?
They don’t.
He asked them in a meeting why they need to take his home
And they said…
You know what they said?
“We don’t know yet.”

Years before, these same rapacious mercantilists
In the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority
Tried to take a widow’s home
To build a parking lot
For limousines
For Donald Trump (2)
You see, according to Kelo v. City of New London, (3)
It’s public use
‘Cause Donald Trump would pay more taxes (4)
Because he’s richer
Because the one thing we can all agree on as Americans
Is that the government should steal from the poor to give to the rich

Notes
1. Removing “blight” is one pretext used to justify eminent domain abuse.
2. http://youtu.be/SmM4ZBoppNQ
3. http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2004/2004_04_108
4. The case with the widow and the parking lot was decided before Kelo. The point we’re trying to make is simply that this sort of theft is attempted and that the standing Supreme Court precedent justifies it. The widow’s case: http://ij.org/case/casino-reinvestment-development-authority-v-coking/

General References
https://youtu.be/RCQM2_nagsM
http://ij.org/images/atlantic-city-eminent-domain/

credits

from Protect and Serve EP, released November 24, 2017
Verses by Walker Mulley and Walter Peterson
Chorus by Addison Stumpf
Music by Blasted Athwart

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Blasted Athwart Hillsdale, Michigan

Inspired by classic punk bands such as The Dead Kennedys and Agent Orange, Blasted Athwart takes quite literally National Review’s motto of “Standing athwart history, yelling ‘STOP!’”

Their music combines aggressive instrumentation with biting sarcasm to rail against those who would oppress the citizenry and exploit the least fortunate.
... more

contact / help

Contact Blasted Athwart

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Blasted Athwart, you may also like: