Good afternoon, viewers, thank you for clicking
through to view this exclusive brand new edition
of Juice Rap News back through with a global transmission
with your host Robert Foster, and we're glad to begin
by introducing this routine interview scheduled today,
with our regular US guest, now director of the NSA,
General Baxter - Hi
- Can you provide via satellite an update on the state of Empire?
- Bob, I have to confide, I'm satisfied.
In fact, I got no axe to grind.
Our Nobel Peace prize President mastermind
has a healthy appetite for sending drones
to smash the lives of Brown children...
Muslims... I mean terrorist hoodlums
- Egregious... - Goddamn right we agree it's just;
Every American'll feel hot pangs of pride when they hear of this.
But guess what I'm most excited about that's finally happening
- What? - The court martial of Private Bradley Manning
Three years without trial and a touch of torture
That's how we punish dissent in the Free World Order.
After this, no one will dare blow whistles, or leak intel
or question our right to read every single freaking email... oops
- Did you just say you read everyone's emails?
- What? emails? no, we don't read, scan, track, record and store every detail
- At all? - no sir. not wittingly...
perhaps a few billion emails... accidentally
- Ok General. we're just getting sent a signal
it's the fearless journalist Crusader, direct from Rio
the Guardian of civil liberties, Sir Glenn Greenwald.
- Robert, hello - Hi, Glenn, What quest are you and your steed on?
- A hero has leaked classified documents
finally proving that the NSA has secretly obtained access directly
to all the servers of Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Youtube, Skype, and Google,
this PRISM system for spying on users from the dark side of the Moon
will record everything, that arrives on screens: emails, chats, Grindr feed
Robert, it took great courage from this whistle blower to decide to leak
they've taken a great risk in getting us, their fellow citizens
this critical glimpse into what is really happening.. behind the scenes
- Mark Zuckerberg, your position?
- Word, sit back, listen you rocking with Zuckerberg, fuckin' nerd tactician
- So PRISM? - what's that, 'PRISM'? Never even heard of that system
yeah we got a program running, but we call it FASCISM
- Do your users like that? - a billion likes, cousin:
and if you dislike something, here's my dislike button,
I'm in charge you fuckin' turds, interview's over, finished, ended
- Er... - Mark Zuckerberg CEO, bitches! unfriended
- Uh okay then... General, would you like to make a statement?
- I'm disgusted - You are? that's amazing
- I had no idea that this could occur, It's devastating
- Shocking, I concur; so will there be an investigation?
- You betcha, we're gonna get those who broke their oath to the law
- Wonderful... - And hold them responsible, this has gone too far.
- I think the whole world feels the same... - Call Gitmo!
I'm personally going to torture whoever leaked all this info
- Wait, what...? - We've become a frickin' culture of leaks
What if every uppity geek who happens not to agree
with the state's tyranny decided to expose it to all and sundry
- That might lead to a revolution - Indeed! see what I mean?
Look, we welcome this debate, openly. Free speech is sanctified
- Ok then, does the NSA keep... - Sorry that's classified
- so what are the laws for the... - EEENG!! Access denied
- Well, how can we see - Oops debate time has expired...
- Ah hold on, we're picking up another feed: this time from Hong Kong
Glen?! - It's me again, I got an update on what's going on
- Greenwald! We're gonna prosecute you for reason... I mean treason
- Uh-uh! your threats are no match for my shield and
you'll cower under the weight of words when I'm weilding my pen-sword
By the power of Greenwald!
- Ah... did you have an update for the people? - oh, yeah... now World,
meet the brave leaker, Edward Snowden
He's made a video to reveal his motives for whistle-blowin'
What's up Edward - hey Glenn what's up
- Yeah what's going on here?
- Me wan big up the At Steppa dem Ellsberg and Manning
You know what I'm saying? - Yo, Snowden
they're gonna come around here looking for you today
- Word? - word. Bust it
- Whistle Blower You know say Eddy-a Snowden Dem gon bla-ame
Fi leaking secrets out
Dem NSA a sayna Eddy-a Snowden done betray de USA
By leaking secrets out
Whistle Blower
You know say Eddy-a Snowden Dem gon bla-ame
Fi leaking secrets out
Dem NSA a sayna Eddy-a Snowden done betray de USA
By leaking secrets out
Workin a for dem N-SA down in Hawaii
findin-a me some paper that na be irie
'bout de Babylon put fire ;pon de civil liberty
so me decide fi trade me safety
for de sake o-defend all-ah-me city-zen privacy
if ya see supm, say supm, follow me, and be
Whistle Blower
You know say Eddy-a Snowden Dem gon bla-ame
Fi leaking secrets out
Dem NSA a sayna Eddy-a Snowden done betray de USA
Fi leaking secrets out
- Well, dear viewers, that's about it for this edition
But it wouldn't be complete without some final questions
Whistleblowers. They leak in the public interest.
now what remains to be known is: is the public interested?
If so, this might be a good day to exhibit it:
Ignorance is a choice, in the age of the internet
Many consider this all very bewildering
Some praise these acts as heroic, worthy of mimicking
Others condemn them as illegal and prohibited
But, can't both be equally applicative?
To be good humans we're sometimes called upon to be bad citizens.
Some nations were even born by breaking laws of the tyrranous.
Do you support heroes from days of yore
who in order to cause reforms disobeyed the law?
Then what about those in the present who heed the same call?
This is Robert Foster for Rap News, good day to you all