80's - Know your rights

"Know Your Rights" is brilliant! As a person who can't understand Punk, I have to say this song is brilliant! Let's first look at the lyrics:

"This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights all three of them

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang

Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You don't have a home to go to
Smush

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you

Listen to this
Run"

You have three rights. You have the right to live unless you get killed by a cop. You have the right to make money and buy food. But you have to be prepared for all the harassment in the work place. Free speech is your right, but everything you say will be used against you in court. So you lose no matter what. The only solution is to escape from all this nonsense. You'd better run. At the end of the day, we don't have any rights according to the Clash. I found this song very entertaining but I can't take it very seriously. Only a coward chooses to escape. If we are smart and we are willing to change the world, we should think about who created the law. The law makers! They are like the "Remote Control" that controls all of us. We don't have to be their chess. We can learn to be smarter and become the law makers ourselves. That is the art of politics.