OBAMA NATION (1)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 2 2009

"OBAMA NATION (1)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 2 2009 - From the start of his election campaign to his inauguration right to his first 100 days in office, Barack Obama was the topic of just too many Reggae tunes to mention.

From "The battle has been won" to "righteousness comes forth from the White House", the lyrics voiced by well known artists like Michael Rose, Sizzla and Coco Tea display Obama almost like the Emperor of Ethiopia.

This is definitely not limited to Reggae Music, but what is kind of striking is the fact that -unlike musical styles like Hip Hop and Rap- there is virtually no critique against the US President.

What happened to this music, a music in which Chanting Down Babylon is a must and artists to give praises to the Almighty even when they themselves do not believe in Jah Word?

One Love, Give Thanks,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

BARRINGTON LEVY - BOUNTY HUNTER/UNDER SIXTEEN (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - WWW, June 2009 - This remix of Barrington Levy's classic is definitely not over 16 years, but the Bounty Hunter surely is. Two tunes from the man that gave birth to the timeless "under mi sensi", to name just one.

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WORSE THAN BUSH: OBAMA'S "PREVENTIVE PROLONGED DETENTION" (BABYLON OBSERVER VIDEO REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - The Hollywood movie "Minority Report" pictures a world where people are arrested because of crimes they... are going to commit in the future. Science Fiction? Not when Barack Obama gets his plans!

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WORSE THAN BUSH: OBAMA'S "PREVENTIVE PROLONGED DETENTION"

WORSE THAN BUSH: OBAMA'S "PREVENTIVE PROLONGED DETENTION"
BABYLON OBSERVER VIDEO REVIEW

WWW, June 2009 - The Hollywood movie "Minority Report" pictures a world where people are arrested because of crimes they... are going to commit in the future. Science Fiction? Not when Barack Obama gets his plans!

When Barack Obama came with his "change we can believe in", millions of people voted for the man. Worshipped as the Messiah, even, by not a few. He was going to do everything that basically every reasonable human being longs for, from Closing Guantanamo to Legalizing the Herb. Countless of Reggae Artists made tracks wherein Obama was being worshipped, or at least hailed up as Jah Man: heaven on earth had just arrived...

Still, many people believe in the "change" Obama claimed to implement as soon as he entered the White House. But on the other hand, more and more souls wake up to the fact that the only "change" Obama will actually implement, are changes to the worse!

Take the MSNBC Channel, for example. Commentator Rachel Maddow reports on one of Barack's latest plans concerning people held at Guantanamo Bay. Many prisoners are not guilty of anything, but they will remain under detention still.

The reason?

Well, let's use a term from the Hollywood movie "Minority Report". That term would be "pre-crime". These are crimes which not actually took place, but rather will take place. Yes, you read that right. Barack Obama announces a plan where people can be held in prison under a torturous regime, for crimes they... will commit!

To make it even more bizarre, Obama announced this more-than-Orwellian plan as he stood before the US Constitution talking how bad the Bush administration before him had been.

See And Hear!