German thrash metal veterans KREATOR will re-release their 2001 masterpiece "Violent Revolution" for its 20th anniversary. Due on January 21, 2022 .
co-opt so many of the people i work with. the subtitle, how we almost lost our democracy and still could. so you re saying it s still possible we could lose our democracy here in the united states? without a doubt. and the way that happens is the way it happens in other countries. it s not always by violent revolution. it s through quasi-legal means. it s by using the architecture of democracy to destroy democracy. which is what they re doing around the country in these state legislatures. they realize that in the next presidential election, if they can t disenfranchise enough people to win, they need a mechanism to overturn the results. they are preparing to succeed where they failed in overturning the last election. if they are able to do that, it may very well spell the end of our democracy. in the book, and i have gone through it. it s really remarkable, some of your conclusions. let me put up on the screen, you write, freedom is not assured.
and this indeed how democracies come to an end. not necessarily by violent revolution. sometimes it s by these quasi legal means of these efforts to subvert the plain letter of the law and coerce individuals, whether it s the vice president or the secretary of state from georgia or elections officials or legislators in michigan or pennsylvania or arizona, and we came so close to losing our democracy, and we re clearly not out of the woods. you were on the select committee investigating january 6. do you want to hear from eastman? look, i don t want to identify specific witnesses yet, but we re going to look into every effort made to subvert the election and how it led us to that violent insurrection on the 6th. so certainly those that were
country. they ll strip independent election officials of their powers and give them to partisan boards to help them succeed where they failed to overturn the last election, and yes, they ll write memos saying hey, here is a way we can subvert the will of the voters if we can just get the vice president to ignore his constitutional duty. and this indeed how democracies come to an end. not necessarily by violent revolution. sometimes it s by these quasi legal means of these efforts to subvert the plain letter of the law and coerce individuals, whether it s the vice president or the secretary of state from georgia or elections officials or legislators in michigan or pennsylvania or arizona, and we came so close to losing our democracy, and we re clearly not out of the woods. you were on the select committee investigating january 6. do you want to hear from eastman? look, i don t want to identify specific witnesses yet,
that at least a president can be prosecuted when they leave office. it seems like adam kinzinger is saying something when he calls that memo that woodward and costa report on a blueprint for a coup. is the select committee investigating a conspiracy to commit a coup? yes. and i think adam is exactly right. the predominant worry i have about our democracy is not that it s the going to be overthrown by a violent revolution, notwithstanding that we endured a violent attempt at insurrection but rather there will be quasi legalins means that so undermine our democracy that it creates a crisis and it falls apart. this is what the republicans tried to do, the trump campaign and administration tried to do with this memo. but it s also what gop party leaders are trying to do around the country by stripping