[Robert Foster]
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?
[General Baxter]
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, uh 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
[Robert Foster]
Okay, 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?
[Glenn Greenwald]
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'll record everything, that arrives on screens
Emails, chats, Grindr feed
Robert, it took great courage from this whistleblower 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]
(Mark Zuckerberg, your position?) Werd, sit back, listen
You're rocking with Zuckerberg, fucking 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 fucking turds; interview's over, finished, ended
(Uh) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, bitches, unfriended!
[General Baxter]
(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
(Okay then, does the NSA keep--?) Sorry, that's classified!
(So what are the laws for the--?) Eeng! Access denied!
(Well, how can we see--?) Oops, debate time has expired!
[Glenn Greenwald]
(Hold on, we're picking up another feed, this time from Hong Kong.)
(Glenn?) 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 wielding my pen-sword
By the power of Greenwald!
(Uh, did you have an update for the people?) Oh yeah, now uh
World, meet the brave leaker Edward Snowden
He's made a video to reveal his motives for whistleblowing
[Edward Snowden]
(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 eh?
(Yo, Snowden, they're gonna come around here looking for you today)
Werd? (Werd. Bust it)
Whistleblower!
You know say Eddy-a Snowden dem gonna blame
Fi leaking secrets out
Dem NSA a sayna Eddy-a Snowden done betray de USA
By leaking secrets out
Whistleblower!
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
Working-a for dem NSA 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 o' me citizen privacy
If ya see supm, say supm
Follow me, and be
Whistleblower!
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
[Robert Foster]
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 tyrannous
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
