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I was scrolling in bed when a clip of James Hetfield at the Sphere in Las Vegas came across my feed. I watched it three times.

He thanked the crowd for traveling to see Metallica, then said the band wasn’t there, like some other entertainers, to influence anybody. “Metallica’s agenda is love, energy, and heavy music, baby!”

The second you make half your audience feel unwelcome, you have a problem. Nobody buys a ticket to see a spokesperson.

The place went nuts. I might have cheered a little myself.

Hetfield has never been one for political sermons. Lars Ulrich, who leans left, has said the two hardly ever talk politics. They’ve spent more than 40 years in a band together and somehow managed. Their fans have too.

I spent my early 20s singing in a band on the road, including five summers on Warped Tour, so I’m not going to pretend music and politics never mix. Warped had plenty of both. Bands railed against the government between songs every day. But it was anti-establishment stuff: kids sticking it to whoever was in charge. I don’t remember anyone telling half the parking lot they were bad people because of how their parents voted. We were all in it together, sweaty, sunburned, and broke.

That’s what has changed. Too often, what comes from the stage isn’t rebellion. It’s a lecture aimed at the people who paid to be there.

Look at what happened to Macklemore. He was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour in September after saying “Free Palestine” onstage. Stadium operators objected; other performers quit in protest. Suddenly the tour itself was a political fight, and the music was an afterthought.

Here’s the part that gets me. On Warped Tour, the bands were the ones pushing back against people in power. Sure, the whole thing was sponsored by Vans. But the feeling was rebellion, not a lecture dressed up as a concert.

Now some of the biggest artists are among the richest, most-followed voices in the culture. They wield plenty of power themselves, and they use the stage to tell regular people what to think. It feels corporate and ridiculous.

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That’s not punk. That’s a sermon with a light show.

Which means a 63-year-old guy at the most high-tech venue on the planet, refusing to join in, might be the most rebellious thing I’ve seen from a stage in years.

I’ve worked in PR a long time, and I’d tell any client the same thing: The second you make half your audience feel unwelcome, you have a problem. Nobody buys a ticket to see a spokesperson.

Write the political song if you’ve got one in you. Metallica has. But when the lights go down, that room belongs to the people who paid to be in it. Hetfield is one of the few who still acts like it.

Love, energy, and heavy music. That’s the whole agenda, and it’s the right one.

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Two Ohio adults were arrested for subjecting nine children to "horrific, disgusting" living conditions at their home in Licking County, police said.

Jonathan Parr and Jacquelyn Coleman were arrested on Oct. 14 after police reported finding the children living among hundreds of insects, including cockroaches.

'I can tell you from being out there that the living conditions were horrific, disgusting.'

The children, ages 1 to 13 years old, were also allegedly subjected to abuse involving lack of food and water and insufficient living space.

The children were taken into emergency custody after someone at a Licking County school called Child Protective Services.

That CPS worker interviewed the children, who allegedly detailed the abuse at the home.

After police obtained a search warrant, about a dozen Licking County SWAT team members raided the home and found the horrific living conditions.

"I can tell you from being out there that the living conditions were horrific, disgusting," said Licking County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jay Cook.

Police called the bathroom an "abomination" and reported finding several firearms at the home within view of the beds where some children slept.

Parr admitted that he made the children stand for five to 10 minutes as a punishment but denied other allegations, according to police.

Coleman was arrested during a traffic stop and allegedly claimed she ignored the abuse because she had nowhere else to stay.

The two were not married but had four children together. It's unclear which of the children were Parr's and which ones belonged to Coleman.

Deputies confiscated an iPhone, a tablet/iPad, and multiple weapons from the home.

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Coleman and Parr were each being held on $150,000 bonds at the Licking County Jail. They each face one charge of endangering children, but other charges may be added in the future.

Parr's mother also lived at the home, but she was not charged.

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France has spent centuries defending its independence, but BlazeTV host Nick Freitas warns that the country now faces a different kind of battle: one over the future of Western civilization itself.

This battle is being waged by a very unlikely team: the left and Islam.

While the pair has very “different ultimate objectives” and very “different worldviews,” that isn’t stopping them from “using each other to achieve their objectives.”

“The left is arrogant enough to believe that Islamists just really want to be woke leftists, they just need to experience a more elaborate welfare system. And then Islam recognizes that look, they do not have the military or economic power to achieve the sort of conquest that they used to,” Freitas explains.

Rather than give up on their conquests, Islam changes “to more asymmetric strategies,” of which Freitas says there are many.

“They talk about ‘taqiyya,’ it’s the idea that you can lie to your enemies. Now again, they will say, ‘Well, no, no, no. This is only like if you’re in a position of extreme, you know, potential harm and you have to lie to be able to save yourself. It’s not just that we can lie in general,’” he says.

“Except that when you see it interpreted by different imams, you get different interpretations, you get different applications for it,” he adds.

And in this case, Islam is using the left as a way to get in on “decolonizing” the West and creating a moral legitimacy for its strategy.

“Now, I’m trying to come up with a moral framework, which provides the left the ability to commit aggressive acts of violence or looting or destruction. And it’s not aggression. It’s just defense,” Freitas says.

“This is decolonization. This is taking back what’s rightfully ours. Because after all, you’re on stolen land, right? This is just taking back what belongs to us because after all, the only reason you have it is not a result of your own efforts,” he continues.

“No, it’s because of oppressive systems that you put in place, which exploited one people in order to enrich yourselves,” he adds.

And the decolonization message echoing through France was founded by a man who claimed that violence was necessary.

“Their argument was colonization was violence. Decolonization has to be violent,” Freitas says, pointing out that their attention has shifted to “decolonizing France.”

“Decolonize it of what?” Freitas asks. “You have to decolonize it of this Western ideology, of Christianity, of capitalism, of property rights, of markets. That’s what has to be decolonized now.”

“If that’s what decolonization is, then what you really mean is you need to uproot, supplant, and destroy the culture that you believe is guilty of the original colonization. That is what has to be destroyed, and that’s what the left wants,” he adds.

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