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Many saw the irony in people doing what they were told and downloading ‘Killing in the name’, where the lyrics say exactly the opposite, to make RATM the Christmas No 1. But that only makes the question why did they do that? more significant. Why did a Facebook campaign to prevent the X Factor winner topping the Christmas chart succeed? Perhaps its because we don’t like being told what to do. We don’t like not being in control and we certainly don’t like the injustice of a system being rigged. Of course, this isn’t important in the way that the Haiti earthquake is important. Is there a tinge of jealousy of Simon Cowell and the success of the X Factor? But, having said all that, it is still the case that we don’t like the injustice of a rigged system; and getting angry about injustice and doing something to stop the injustice is a good thing to do. History is full of the stories of people who have got angry over injustice and we in Songs of Rage believe that there are times when you do have to stand up against the world, and say 'I won't do what you tell me' because there are times when the 'world' accepts and puts up with things that are wrong like trafficking of women for sex, for example The thing is that fighting a system can be dangerous; very often the system wins, especially if money and power are at stake. That’s what Jesus Christ found getting angry and fighting the system cost him his life or appeared to. The trouble for the system was that people started saying that Jesus had come back from death to a new life and that’s a story which hasn’t gone away, even now, 2000 years later.

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