UMG, can't watch it.
Here's a great song by an austrian singer who lived most of his life in the US about Germany, but the text applies so perfectly to the US it's more bitter than funny.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-4n9yxZ_s[/youtube]
I tried to translate the text, but keeping the rhymes and nuances is next to impossible, so it's really just the basic words.
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Of course freedom has something to do with Germany,
as long as you contribute economically.
Some people have to remain unfree, nobody is immune,
if he misses the train that sets him free.
If he doesn't see the train and has to complicate everything,
well, then there have to be rules that he has to respect.
Then maybe his boss will say:
My freedom does not have to be your freedom.
My freedom: Yes!
Your freedom: No!
My freedom is guaranteed by the constitution,
yours didn't interested anyone so far.
My freedom means that I can make business,
and your freedom means you work for me
and because you have to buy my products,
your freedom doesn't cost anything.
And it's still that my freedom is my freedom again,
your freedom remains enclosed in mine,
and if I don't have my freedom, you won't have yours,
and thus my freedom becomes your duty.
And so I tell you, defend my freedom with a weapon in your hand
and with a weapon in the hands of your children.
So none of your children ever forgets
what freedom is when it's at work.
My freedom shall be your highest commandement.
My freedom remains loyal to the death.
If you don't see the logic in this, just think about this:
Without my freedom you'd be jobless.
Well freedom is different from intemperance.
Freedom also means diligence and manliness and sweat.
I'll tell what I think as liberal -
To keep things as they are.
So in every case my freedom is more important than your freedom.
My freedom yes, your freedom nah,
My freedom is a few hundred years old,
yours will maybe come soon.
But so far there it's nothing with your liberal ambition.
You have no power and no organisation.
I'd be stupid to give up my freedom just for you,
so I'll keep my freedom, you won't get yours!
Not yet.
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And yes, it's 'liberal' in the actual sense of the word, not the american political sense.
