Marina wrote: "Nowadays my emotional reaction to TSA and the like is about the same as it was as a kid passing through E. Germany. PAPERS PLEASE !" John Kay of the band Steppenwolf is the son of East German immigrants. He came to the states young, but he had a vicious take on it... or was the song The Ostrich about America, even in the 1960s? "We'll call you when you're six years oldAnd drag you to the factory To train your brain for eighteen years With promise of security But then you're free And forty years you waste to chase the dollar sign So you may die in Florida At the pleasant age of sixty nine The water's getting hard to drink We've mangled up the country side The air will choke you when you breathe We're all committing suicide But it's alright It's progress folks keep pushin' till your body rots We'll strip the earth of all it's green And then divide her into parking lots But there's nothing you and I can do You and I are only two What's right and wrong is hard to say Forget about it for today We'll stick our heads into the sand Just pretend that all is grand Then hope that everything turns out ok You're free to speak your mind my friend As long as you agree with me Don't criticize the father land Or those who shape your destiny 'Cause if you do You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew We'll send out all our boys in blue They'll find a way to silence you But there's nothing you and I can do You and I are only two What's right and wrong is hard to say Forget about it for today We'll stick our heads into the sand Just pretend that all is grand Then hope that everything turns out ok It sounds like... https://youtube.com/watch?v=8SeUqDjPeP0 Also see Monster/Suicide/America https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-vGxe1eMmQ Randalls Island Live edition. Black activists had taken over the small soccer stadium off harlem NY where the 3 day concert took place with the help of a number of white ny radicals and made it a free concert. The song opens with their road manager explaining to some surly looking BPPs how they had to negotiate a pay cut with another venue they were booked at because they wanted to be THERE, and how much the band liked playing NY... Madison Square Garden... One of them says "This isnt Madison Square Garden its a political protest." He responds: "If you'll allow me... You'll find out thats EXACTLY what we're going to do. Ps. The footage of the war and protests shown in the video are not added. It was the light show projected on the stage backdrop. Later, when Leslie West and Mountain played, someone had accessed the score and announcing booth and raised the NLF flag over the stadium, and a good time was had by all. Rr null