This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . .
It is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents' credit rating). Our criminal institutions are filled with little creeps like you who do wrong things . . . and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!
Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which itself is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE). - The Central Scrutinizer © 1979 Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage, Vol. 1
Zappa was a prophet in my book. This was written over 25 years ago as commentary on the Shi'a revolution in Iran. It could just as well have been written today about the regime currently in power here. A big hat tip to fellow Zappa devotee the CultureGhost for putting my head in the right place.
Zappa on Zappa (from the liner notes):
Desperate nerds in high offices all over the world have been known to enact the most disgusting pieces of legislation in order to win votes (or, in places where they don't get to vote, to control unwanted forms of mass behavior).
We take you now, to a garage in Canoga Park . . .
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