Frank Zappa Quotes
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.
Zappa, Frank. Interview with David Sheff. Playboy, vol. 40, no. 4, Apr. 1993.
Actually he also blamed the students who had become very active in politics in disgust with the corrupt politicians. But the students could block things but were not able to constructively come up with any alternatives. See {613112}.
The leaders and creators of these anti-corruption organizations get kickbacks from corrupt officials and organizations to be sure that they do not get investigated and exposed. In some cases they frame an honest politician who would not pay them and accuse him of corruption to show the public that they are cracking down on corruption. Or they go after corrupt politicians who are going against the regime on political matters. Not all anti-corruption and reform organizations are corrupt themselves, but many are. But the methods of corruption thoughout the world are becoming more and more sophisticated as the simple forms are being exposed by media and reform groups.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. We was half a century ahead of Ronald Reagan and the conservatives on this one.
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American singer-songwriter, innovative rock guitarist, modernist composer, multi-instrumentalist, satirist, film-maker, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.
