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I had $4.00 in the bank on October 27, 2009. Bank of America decided to charge me a belated overdraft fee from earlier in the month. I dipped into the red two or three dollars, penalty: thirty-five-bucks. Thirty-five dollars deducted from my four dollar balance on October twenty-seventh, and oops! I over-drafted again… Thirty-five dollars drawn and gasp! I over drafted again. It was an overdraft domino effect—initiated by the Bank of America computer—that robbed me of over two hundred dollars, just like it was designed to do. The best part is, I am powerless to fight it. I called the bank. I talked to my lawyer. No. Sorry. You’re fucked.
I live in the United States America. I have freedom and stuff.
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I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here.
“I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.”
“I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.”
“Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy holding out both puppets!”
“Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America – you are free to do what well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”
‘Cause I’ll tell you who the threat to freedom … no, no, not to freedom. I’ll tell you who the threat to the status quo is in this country: it’s us.
That’s why they show you shows like fucking COPS. So you know that state power will win and we’ll bust your house down and we’ll fuckin’ bust you anytime we want. That’s the message.