Russia claimed to be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and so Russia really was a socialist republic. That is, communism is socialism. There is no real difference. One avowedly takes the way of terrorism and murder and anarchy, while the other seeks the same end by infiltration, propaganda, creeping socialism. So communism and Karl Marx’s socialism are really out-and-out enemies of the Bible.
–Dr. John R. Rice, False Doctrines Answered, p. 379–

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Friday, October second, 1992

Chaos has descended in Carandiru
The biggest penitentiary complex in South America
Over a hundred inmates dead and hundreds injured on the massacre
The police arrived with helicopters
And over two hundred armed forces

They took the jailblock called Pavilhão Nove
And opened fire on the inmates
In a holocaust method of annihilation
The government of the city of São Paulo
Cannot control the brutality of its police

Holocaust, body piles
Confrontation, mutilation

Discipline, ignorance
Conflagration, torture

Over eighty percent of the inmates were not sentenced yet
The bodies were filled with bullets
And bites from the police dogs
The police tried to hide the massacre
Saying there were only eight deaths

The violence of Brazilian cops
Is very well known outside Brazil
This kind of extermination is a method that they use
To get rid of the overpopulation in the jails
The violence of the cops
Left the whole pavillion destroyed after the rebellion

Pavilhão Nove!

–Sepultura, “Manifest”–

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Telling lies right into your face
Grab your soul and make a disgrace
Make you believe you’re bigger than life
No one cares if you’ll live or die
Waiting for the moment to strike
To take possession to take your heart
Turn your part into a farce
Without respect, without regret

Cut-throat, cut-throat, cut-throat
Cut-throat, cut-throat, cut-throat

You promise this and promise that
Deep inside nothing at all
In a war of filth and greed
We don’t need this
All I say that we’ll survive
We know what’s true, we know what’s right
We’re going through this till the end
And I know you’re not my friend

Cut-throat, cut-throat, cut-throat
Cut-throat, cut-throat, cut-throat

To give in, to give in, no way

So don’t tell us it can’t be done
Putting down what you don’t know
Money isn’t our god
Integrity will free our soul
Enslavement, pathetic
Ignorant, corporate

Cut-throat, cut-throat, cut-throat
Cut-throat, cut-throat, cut-throat

–Sepultura, “Cut-Throat”–