September 12th, 2005
The Brussels Journal has a depressing post on the latest pop tune in Belgium, Raymond van het Groenewoud’s “Weg met Amerika”–or, “Down with America.” A selection of lyrics:
Hamburgers and coke, yes you already knew
But do you also know the cause of the general decay?
Short-sighted thinking, loud talking
Sticking to one-liners forever
Down with America! Down with the jerks from America
Down with America! […]Down with American colonialism
Down with that ugly, biting English
All the Anglo-Saxon pretence, arrogance
Yes, a hot pick up their ass
And that is that […]I am from the Belgian, the European panel
And I ask you: “Clear my channel! Clear my channel!”
Megalomaniac unicellular idiots
Kiss my ass, yes, kiss my balls
Luc Van Braekel has more.
Update, 12:02 p.m.: Galley Friend J.E. writes in:
The song would be funny, were it not so sadly ignorant of history. I suppose the songwriter, who decries “American colonialism,” has never learned of Belgium’s shameful colonialist past, resulting directly in the Rwanda slaughter, for it was the Belgians who created the artificial ethnic constructs of Tutsi v Hutu. Where, exactly, are the American colonies? Oh, and let’s not forget the 18 days it took the Belgians to surrender to Hitler in 1940, nor their willingness to give up Jews, nor the liberation of Belgium by our guys, nor the loss of life at the Bulge.
Apparently, there is a large leftist moron factory somewhere in the world turning out idiots from every culture 24/7.
miklos rosza September 13, 2005 at 2:49 am
King Leopold of Belgium oversaw the colonial regime probably responsible for more outright atrocities than any other, as he considered Africans subhuman and so in the Belgian Congo no excess was a crime in the coldblooded quest to loot the natural resources of this huge area.The horror.