I first heard the song "Freedom" on MTV.�At first I didnt like it, but I also didn't notice the words running across the bottom of the screen. The second time I saw it, I read the words, and I realized the video was about Indians killing FBI agents, at that point I realized that this was the greatest video ever.

A few years later I saw a friend of mine sing "Killing in the name of" in a small club.

All I wanted to do when I was a kid was join the military and go to war and die.

I finally saw through that bullshit just in time.� I became a common criminal and did drugs.� Maybe it wasnt the best choice to make, but looking at the alternative now, I think I made the right decision.� Rage Against the Machine has been the only sound voice when I think of education today. School is pushed on the youth so hard, so I quote "The teacher stands in front of the class but the lesson plan he cant recall, the students perceive the lies bouncing off every fucking wall..."�� Look at life now, people graduate from that college, and they work for Burger King?!� But if you know how to play video games reallly good, you can get a good paying job (from an American point of view.)

I gave up my life years ago,� but I crawled out of a hole,�what keeps me going is knowing that I can break at least one law a day.�� That I am still alive and still standing, I will keep trying, I will keep fighting.� If I was dead, in prison, or a police officer, or in the military, what good would I be doing?� Must seize the day, because I know if I was on Death Row because I wasn't given a fair trial, I would be thinking about if I was free, all the shit I wish would do to the system and the corporations.�I think Rage Against the Machine is on the right path because they know that our minds can break down walls.