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Vic Sadot - Broadside Balladeer - Original Topical Folk Songs
9/11 Truth & Justice Songs - Special 7th Anniversary
LTD Edition 9/11/08
1 The Ballad of William Rodriguez - The story the World Trade
Center janitor of 20 years who suddenly became
a Ground Zero rescue hero as he responded with courage on September 11, 2001.
The song is based on an interview
by Vic Sadot in 2005 with William Rodriguez. Like many other eye-witnesses,
William told of a series of explosions
inside the towers on 9/11/01. His testimony was omitted from the official 9/11Commission
Report on Terrorist Attacks.
He has since become a 9/11 Truth Activist. (5:18)
2 Cheney's in the Bunker/Do the Orders Still Stand - Page
220 of The 9/11Commission Report: Omissions &
Distortions by David Ray Griffin reveals the omitted testimony of Secretary
of Transportation Norman Mineta of the
morning of 9/11/01 that puts Cheney in charge in the White House bunker conducting
war game drills that go live as
early as 9:20 am. The Commission has Cheney arriving at 9:58 and does not mention
any war drills going on
simultaneously. (4:50)
3 Mad Cowboy Disease - Folk meets punk with a Zydeco
8 step dance beat. The result is a hilarious broadside aimed at G W Bush
war policies backed by the use of a phony cowboy image. The song offers a bizarre
rationale for Neo Con bellicosity: "It must
have been the dinner at the Inauguration Ball. There must have been some Mad
Cow on the menu after all." (4:29)
4 The Ballad of Pat Tillman - The story of the famous football
star who believed the official 9/11 story told by George Bush the day after
the attacks. Tillman joined the Army Rangers. He served in Iraq and then in
Afghanistan. He was reading and corresponding with anti-war professor Noam Chomsky,
and, according to his mother Mary, Pat Tillman said that the war was "illegal".
The Pentagon lied to his parents, the media, and the American public when they
said he died a heroic death in battle. Later, as the parents and reporters investigated,
the Pentagon said that Tillman was killed by "friendly fire". They made
up this phony story so that they could continue to use Pat Tillman as a recruitment
poster boy. On July 26, 2007 the AP released story titled "Was Tillman
Murdered?". It reported that the coroner report stated that Pat Tillman was
shot by 3 bullets to the forehead at 10 yards range. (5:17)
5 Born To Win - This song about US military interventions
in "Third World" countries in the name of "democracy" for the so-called
"Free World" was originally written in reaction to the "Iran-Contra
Scandal" of the Reagan regime in which covert drugs and arms were illegally
moved. The 1985 release rings true to today's US wars of choice. (3:56)
6 Trouble in the Rubble - Inspired by an Associated Press
article by Amy Westfeldt about the 9/11 rescue dogs having their feet burned
by a strange "white-hot debris". It was run in the Washington Post on
Oct 20, 2006. While it is consistent with many reports of pools of molten steel
in the rubble, it is not consistent with the official story that the towers
fell into rubble as a result of jet fuel fires. (5:10)
7 Blowback or Bloody Treason - Explaining 9/11 as "blowback"
against aggressive US policies was the initial view of
many, especially on the left, which did not challenge the "official conspiracy
story" of the G W Bush administration or the
subsequent 9/11 Commission report of 2004. This song was written after reading
Crossing the Rubicon by former Los
Angeles detective Michael Ruppert on the forensic evidence and verifiable facts
relating the events of 9/11/01. (6:06)
8 Are You A Citizen Or Are You A Slave - Written by
Vic Sadot & Cindy Abramowicz Hubschmitt. The song challenges
citizen apathy and the notion that we cannot change anything by citing the historical
record of struggle that says
otherwise. Colonialism, slavery, debtor prisons have been defeated and a Bill
of Rights, the right to organize unions, civil
rights and voting rights were all won through struggle. It's a strident
anthem done in Cajun waltz style. (5:01)
9 Nightmare of New Orleans - A Cajun blues song about
the criminally negligent response to Hurricane Katrina before,
during, and after that catastrophe. (3:05)
10 The Kidnapping Coup - Tells the story of the US Bush-Cheney
regime's overthrow of the democratically elected
government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004. (7:08)
11 Broadside Balladeer - A tribute to Phil Ochs who
Vic met and interviewed in May 1973. (3:33)
12 Ride the Wind - Vic Sadot's song about state
terror and weapons of mass destruction. The title cut of a 1988 LP
takes on new meanings in the post-9/11 era. Before it was about the balance
of terror supplied by mutual assured
destruction (MAD) in the nuclear arms race. Now it brings to mind the great
fear and war mongering done in the wake of
false-flag state terror operations by the globalizing corporate empire. "Ride
the wind! Stand the storm! There ain't no
place to hide!" (5:36)
Copyright 2008 Vic Sadot,BMI,Orbian Love Music
Available at www.911truth.org
Contact Singer-Songwriter Vic Sadot at 302-607-1884
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