Anti-Flag - Anatomy of Your Enemy lyrics

10 easy steps to create an
Enemy and start a war:
Listen closely because we will all see
This weapon used in our lives
It can be used on a society of the
Most ignorant to the most highly educated
We need to see these tactics as a
Weapon against humanity and not as truth

This is how to create an enemy! this
Is how to start a war!
This is how to create an enemy!

First step: create the enemy sometimes this
Will be done for you

Second step: be sure the enemy you
Have chosen is nothing like you
Find obvious differences like
Race, language, religion, dietary habit's
Fashion emphasize that their soldiers are


Not doing a job they are heartless murderers
Who enjoy killing!

Third step: Once these differences
Are established continue
To reinforce them with
All disseminated information

Fourth step: Have the media broadcast
Only the ruling party's information
This can be done through state run media
Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit
Media repeats the ruling party's information
Therefore all for-profit media is state-run

Fifth step: show this enemy in
Actions that seem strange, militant
Or different
Always portray the enemy as non human, evil
A killing machine

This is how to create an enemy this
Is how to start a war
This is how to create an enemy
Sixth step: Eliminate opposition to
The ruling party
Create an "Us versus Them" mentality leave
No room for opinions in between
One that does not support all actions of the
Ruling party should be considered a traitor

Seventh step: Use nationalistic and
Or religious symbols and rhetoric
To define all actions
This can be achieved by
Slogans such as "freedom
Loving people versus those who hate freedom"
This can also be achieved by the use of flags

Eighth step: Align all actions
With the dominant deity
It is very effective to use terms like
"It is god's will" or "god bless our nation"

Ninth step: Design propaganda to
Show that your soldiers
Have feelings, hopes, families
And loved ones
Make it clear that your soldiers
Are doing a duty
They do not want or like to kill

Tenth step: Create and atmosphere of fear
And instability
Then offer the ruling party as the only
Solutions to comfort the public's fears
Remembering the fear of the unknown
Is always the strongest fear

This is how to create an enemy! this
Is how to start a war!
This is how to create an enemy!

We are not countries we are not nations
(enemy)
We are not religions we are not gods we
Are not weapons we are not ammunition
(enemy) We are not killersWe
Will NOT be tools

Mother fuckers i will not die
I will not kill i will not be your slave
I will not fight your battle
I will not die on your battlefield
I will not fight for your wealth
I am not a fighter i am a human being!