Anti-Flag - Anatomy Of Your Enemy Lyrics






10 easy steps to create an enemy and start a war:
Listen closely because we will all see this weapon used in our lives.
It can be used on a society of the most ignorant to the most highly educated.
We need to see their tactics as a weapon against humanity and not as truth.

First step: create the enemy. Sometimes this will be done for you.

Second step: be sure the enemy you have chosen is nothing like you.
Find obvious differences like race, language, religion, dietary habits
fashion. Emphasize that their soldiers are not doing a job,
they are heartless murderers who enjoy killing!

Third step: Once these differences are established continue to reinforce them
with all disseminated information.

Fourth step: Have the media broadcast only the ruling party's information
this can be done through state run media.
Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party's information.
Therefore all for-profit media becomes state-run.

Fifth step: show this enemy in actions that seem strange, militant, or different.
Always portray the enemy as non-human, evil, a killing machine.

[Chorus:]
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY. THIS IS HOW TO START A WAR.
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY.

Sixth step: Eliminate opposition to the ruling party.
Create an "Us versus Them" mentality. Leave no room for opinions in between.
One that does not support all actions of the ruling party should be considered a traitor.

Seventh step: Use nationalistic and/or religious symbols and rhetoric to define all actions.
This can be achieved by slogans such as "freedom loving people versus those who hate freedom."
This can also be achieved by the use of flags.

Eighth step: Align all actions with the dominant deity.
It is very effective to use terms like, "It is god's will" or "god bless our nation."

Ninth step: Design propaganda to show that your soldiers
have feelings, hopes, families, and loved ones.
Make it clear that your soldiers are doing a duty; they do not want or like to kill.

Tenth step: Create and atmosphere of fear, and instability
and then offer the ruling party as the only solutions to comfort the public's fears.
Remembering the fear of the unknown is always the strongest fear.

[Chorus (repeat)]

We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions.
We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition. We are not killers.
We will NOT be tools.

Mother fuckers
I will not die
I will not kill
I will not be your slave
I will not fight your battle
I will not die on your battlefield
I will not fight for your wealth
I am not a fighter
I am a human being!!!





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  1. J.... D....

    I remember these days.. I felt so strong. AF has become blind to their own guidance, not realizing how they advocate the same divisive tactics these days. Look at how people fight over race more than ever, fight over "cultural appropriation" and gender, etc. It isn't any different. ANTIFA could never stand behind the final call to humility and humanity in the outro. We quarrel over social issues and it is all a massive distraction while they poison us, they pollute our water, they run our cities into the ground, they control our education, they run our healthcare, they create more distractions like TV and smart devices we are constantly connected to, social media so we can focus on artificial ego, then they will say they are here to save us. What happened to watch the left, watch the right, watch the center and watch your back? Identity politics is worn on everyone's sleeves these days. Big tech deplatforms someone else every other week. That is the new book burning. What has happened to us? To our humanity?? Following false gods and deities the powers that be also answer to. The spiritual guidance provided even leads us astray. Do we not realize that these issues of today were predetermined and now we have school shootings and doxxing and parties fighting on either side to destroy America and they convince us we dont matter. We wallow in our depression, our anxiety, our apathy and it is just sad. We turn back to the same rulers for a cure and they give us more poison. It is not acceptable to deny personhood to an unborn human being. This world is lost in itself and worships the ego. This planet is trash and entropy has been its natural course since the beginning.

    J.... D....

    Perhaps you're seeing the "enemy" they want you to see and not the enemy itself. This is late-stage capitalism, friend.

  2. A.... B....

    I actually do see the ninth step around me too much every day, it's very f*cked up, but in 2019 with all the totalities and real circumstances, is like wow the true love of sexmitamputiertekinder oh man look at the rewards they get, nuclear powered sexmitamputiertekinderkopf young and families wow they really are righteous too..
    But yeh, in theory- that ninth step is a real tear jerker man. Still f*cked up..

  3. M.... ....

    Music for 16 year old idiot's

  4. p.... ....

    This song would be great if it wasn't for the juvenile screaming at the very end. It takes a great song and turns it into a novelty.

    p.... ....

    Have you been in the military?

  5. G.... m....

    must have inspired the turkish government

  6. Z.... P....

    We’ev all seen this weapon used in our lives. Don’t send mixed signals about the Ænemæ. Thanks to all the Alt-techies from Left of Centaur. Am I right?

  7. B.... R....

    Anyone who is authoritarian left or right can fall under this.

  8. Z.... P....

    That one will need another PLAy. Sometime soon. Just pretend I can still think straight. I don’t want to become the MAN

  9. Z.... P....

    Cell Ugar said something about Ann Coulter playing a bigger role in our Family. She Trusted in Trump and Israel says that Trump/Cyrus needs to build that wall!

  10. Z.... P....

    Love Donald Trump

  11. Z.... P....

    Love Ron Paul

  12. I.... M....

    This music should have ended at 2.42 with 'we are not killers, we will not be tools'.
    It would have had enough of a message and a lot more impact if it simply ended there.

    Unfortunately it didn't end there and the wangsty emo screaming from 2.43 onwards completely ruins the tone of the whole thing. It went from intelligent, calm and collected to "WAAAAHHHH YOU DON'T OWN MEEEE!"

    I.... M....

    I dunno, the inclusion of “I am not a fighter, I am a human being” felt pretty important to me, especially because one of the major goals is to dehumanize your opposition

  13. A.... D....

    I always listen to antiflag while playing battlefield.

  14. D.... G....

    Butthurt leftist cummies being butthurt because they couldn't suck Stalin's cock back when the USSR was still plaguing our Mother Earth.

  15. G.... G....

    This is a good reason why there should be no draft. You should only fight in wars you believe advance justice. And even by that standard this song makes it clear how easy it is to get that belief in justice fed to you on an unjust war.

  16. J.... D....

    sounds like the perfect description of the Trump campaign

    J.... D....

    @Xaq03 Most leftists actually care about intersectionality, and you know not being shitty towards marginalized people. Don't be a class reductionist

    Oh and by the way, I'm an anarchist.

    J.... D....

    @Zach Cornett great, well lemme know how your crusade against bad words works out

    J.... D....

    @Xaq03 Is not wanting people to feel welcome in leftist spaces really a hill you want to die on?

    J.... D....

    @Zach Cornett no, the hill i want to die on is the one on which you realize that what youre doing is a complete waste of effort and not at all addressing major issues. you sound like a naive teenager, for real. read a few books did you and now youre trying to change the world through applying academic theories to youtube comments? nah this is depressing.

    J.... D....

    J.J. Decay what a fucking sheep
    Baaa baaa

  17. F.... W....

    won't forget

  18. S.... ....

    Take back your country, Americans.

    S.... ....

    the game is rigged...until the people are ready and willing to overthrow the corruption they see every day they will continue to allow the 1% to control them.

  19. T.... V....

    Oh shitttt, My bad. haha

  20. m.... ....

    Dude 500 character limit

  21. t.... b....

    secondly, i believe it was you that made a comment that said, "I dont judge people for their life styles,there's more important things that pushing opinions." With that said, you sound like a stupid hypocritical fuck when you wanna wine like a little girl about people abbreviating words...

  22. t.... b....

    well then, YOU forgot the comma after dude, the period after people/ before the " and there should be a period at the end of the sentence. Don't correct someones grammar when your punctuation is twice as worse.

  23. T.... V....

    Dude how hard is it to spell out the word "people"? It's P-E-O-P-L-E

    T.... V....

    Why isn't it peepull? Really, the spelling of the english language is absurdly inconsistent, and must have been designed by somebody who had enjoyed just a little bit too much of the queen's sherry.

  24. t.... b....

    i think ppl think that because most ppl that can do it well, it comes easy.. and other ppl that are bad just dont realize they are lol. i learned how to do it well like 10 yrs ago when i was 15, never had a sore throat or blood, so thats probably why i agree it isnt that hard.. but then again.. different ppl have different talents so youre arguement is more valid. ppl that are good have a different mindset than those that it doesnt come naturally to i suppose

  25. c.... ....

    Yeah anyone can scream, but not everyone can make it sound good. Infact most people don't IMHO.

  26. c.... ....

    No I meant that as a good thing. I agree with you.

  27. e.... ....

    Justin and #2 sing the chorus and Pat does the narration thing

  28. c.... ....

    Sounds to me like the singer is just screaming at the end, but hard to say. Regardkess that last part was really heavy.

  29. O.... ....

    What's the sample at then end?

  30. j.... ....

    Next target Iran...

  31. R.... ....

    @chipmnk87 HEY MAN, CHECK OUT HED PE IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. THEY OPENED MY EYES TO THINGS LIKE THIS. THEY REALLY HELPED ME FIND MY SELF. AND THEY ARE PUNK

  32. L.... ....

    @chowderthecoolguy Think Justin Sings The Chorus but Chris 2 talks about the steps.

  33. D.... ....

    @flabbyhabbybabby1 it's pretty easy to say something's bullshit... logically debating why you think so is another story, now , isn't it

  34. d.... ....

    @flabbyhabbybabby1 hahaaha. American stereotype? Ohh yes.
    fuck your politics.

  35. j.... s....

    if u read the liner notes to this album its amazing...it explains they worte this song 2 days after 9-11...nice to know a punk band is intelligent and kick ass