Delaware Folk Singer Writes 'Tough Lyrics' Calling Attention to Neo-Con Corruption www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/35232.htm
Vic Sadot picks up where Bob Dylan left off, telling America in his music to end the Iraq War and put the neo-cons in jail for causing 9/11.

By Greg Szymanski 14 Oct 2005

Vic Sadot (pronounced as Sa-doe) has a knack for tackling tough political issues and then turning them into the sweet sound of music. But unfortunately his brand of brash, hard-hitting folk music, similar to Bob Dylan in the 60’s, is a rarity nowadays and about as hard to find as an honest judge.

In fact, come to think of it, where is Dylan hiding these days? Where is the Vietnam anti-war balladeer when we need him? Is he living off his Mr. Tambourine Man profits instead of hitting the streets, singing against the illegal Iraqi war?

But even if Dylan is only ‘blowing in the wind,’ who needs him when we have a true balladeer and patriot like Sadot waiting in the wings, aiming his guitar and lyrics right at the neo-con criminals, including daddy Bush, baby Bush, Herr Rumsfeld and Doctor Death, Big Dick Cheney.

For those who know the real truth about this band of ‘closet Nazis,’ Sadot’s lyrics only affirm the alarming truth that our nation is under attack from an internal enemy now occupying the White House. And for those who remain skeptical or loyal to the Bush dictatorship, his lyrics hopefully will shock them into finally facing the music and finally facing the cold hard facts that the neo-cons in Washington are about as phony as a three dollar bill.

But before delving into Sadot’s lyrics and hard hitting songs it needs to be mentioned that never in the history of our country has such blatant arrogance of power took such a deathly stranglehold on Washington. And with such arrogance, also comes the truth from a simple balladeer who, like a lone horseman riding in the night with a sword waving, is trying to desperately awaken a sleeping nation before its too late.

A wise old man once said the music of a nation reveals the inner soul of its people. And with that in mind, Sadot’s lyrics may be the inner prescription needed to rally the souls of million Americans who are waiting for the right moment to exorcise the sickness and cancer out of our government.

Although Sadot’s latest CD, Broadsides& Retrospectives, definitely will not be playing under the Bush Christmas tree this holiday season, it could be playing under millions of other trees across the country since baby Bush’s approval polls recently have dipped about as quick as the Titanic sunk.

And just as Dylan’s raspy sound rallied a nation against the Vietnam War, Sadot’s lyrics could have the same effect, the same effect, that is, if ever he is heard in the mainstream media, a corrupt media that protects daddy and baby Bush like they are “God, the father and his only begotten son.”

Although like Dylan, he may never be accused of always carrying a perfect tune or sounding like he belongs in a boys’ choir, Sadot’s lyrics aptly paint the picture of a nation’s government ‘gone south,’ telling it like it is in original songs entitled The Ballad of William Rodriguez, The Nightmare of New Orleans, Cheney’s in the Bunker/Do the Orders Still Stand, Mad Cowboy Disease and are You a Citizen or Are You a Slave.

“I didn’t play the guitar until I graduated college from the University of Delaware,” said Sadot in an extended conversation this week from his Delaware home. “I was always interested in politics and earned a political science degree ears ago. I remember being influenced by Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage and it is ironic that I first was recruited in 1968 and got involved with the Young Republicans.” But Sadot quickly migrated to a more liberal political camp, taking up music and writing a series of Watergate songs while also hosting a public interest radio program in Washington D.C. during the tumultuous Nixon days. “Even way back then I wrote anti-war and Watergate songs with my first group called the Crazy Planet Band,” recalls Sadot, who plays the guitar, the 10 button accordion and the piano-accordion in a brand of folk/rock music that has a definite Cajun-New Orleans jazz influence ringing loud behind his original lyrics.

“I always looked up to Phil Ochs and even got a chance to interview him while I was doing my radio show years ago. He was always my hero and my latest CD called Broadsides and Retrospectives is dedicated to him as well as a compilation of 19 songs I’ve written over a 25 year period.”

Besides Sadot’s career as a musician, he also dabbled in publishing an alternative truth-telling Delaware newspaper in the 1980’s, saying whether it’s music or writing he has always tried to preach the truth by exposing the corrupt and the powerful.

“These neo-cons are a whole new ballgame,” said Sadot. “They’re not like traditional conservatives who are fiscally responsible so as a result both liberals and conservatives are equally upset by what is going on in our country. “As far as Bush and Cheney are concerned, they need to be impeached and quickly removed from office. They are ruining the country and we are dealing with an evil empire here who is bankrupting America while allowing their corporate friends to profit handsomely.”

Regarding 9/11, Sadot firmly believes the Bush administration caused the tragedy and claims after reading the story of William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who heard explosions in the basement and has had his statements kept from the American people, he was inspired to write a song about what he called solid evidence of a government 9/11 cover-up.

“When I first read about his incredible story, I couldn’t believe what I was reading,” said Sadot, who also recently attended a 9/11 truth gathering in New York on September 11th where he sang the Rodriguez song after the WTC janitor spoke at the rally held on the fourth anniversary of 9/11. “Here we have a guy who was declared a national hero, tried to tell the truth and then had his words kept out of the final 9/11 Commission report as well as systematically out of every American mainstream newspaper.

“He heard explosions prior to the airplane striking the towers and there were many others who verified his testimony and heard the same thing. All of the testimony has been kept from the American people and after four years still has not come out in the mainstream press. What is going on is a crime against the people and I had to write a song about it which turned out to be The Ballad of William Rodriguez.”

Besides the Rodriguez song, Sadot wrote a scathing tune about Cheney based on statements made by former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, later censored by the 9/1 Commission, about the Vice President’s strange actions at approximately 9:20 am on 9/11.

“I wrote the song Cheney’s in the Bunker/Do the Orders Still Stand after I heard about Mineta’s testimony being taken out of the 9/11 Commission report which clearly shows Cheney orchestrating activities on 9/11,” said Sadot. “Mineta said “a young man” was at Cheney’s side at 9:20 am saying repeatedly ‘Do the Orders Still Stand’ and once said ' the plane is 50 miles out, sir' with Cheney responding “of course, the orders still stand’ obviously referring to the stand down of defense systems and the (perhaps other) orders regarding Flight 93.

“I’m trying to do songs that expose the neo-cons for what they really are,” said Sadot. “One thing for sure is they are not true patriots. But after all the years, although it’s a struggle, I am still trying to make my music happen while telling stories about truth, justice and about the United States we used to believe in, not what the neo-cons have turned it into today.”

Sadot’s music can be found on his web site www.zydecoplanet.com. He is also available at a moment’s notice for live engagements at venues that appreciate his “no holds barred” brand of folk-rock music and truth-telling lyrics.

And like a true balladeer with strong feelings, he had a parting message in honor of his father, Jean-Henri Sadot, a poet and humanitarian, who gave his son his first lesson in the importance of dignity and respect for your fellow man by writing a poems like The Statue of Liberty. Vic has set up a “Heritage” section of his father’s writings at his website. (Hear the song written as a poem by Vic’s father, Jean-Henri Sadot, set to music by Lionel Bernard and sung by Jerome Panier of Normandy, France at www.zydecoplanet.com and they perform with Vic and three American musicians on the CD Broadsides & Retrospectives.)

It is in that tradition of struggle that Vic says: "If we are going to get the reins of power back in the hands of the American people, then we must go back to basics and see the corporate media as evil and manipulating as they truly are. Common Sense during "these times that try men's souls" demands that we get reality based and then get faith based behind some sensible democratic socially responsible system that we can participate in that will give hope in our beloved US to the rest of the world!
"Is the Statue of Liberty a lie now? Is it the next state terrorist target?
"Instead of putting blind faith in war criminal profiteers, we could base decisions on how we share earth's resources and what the people's labor and genius produces with incredible generosity. Like Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the forty fathers who died here at Cooch's Bridge here in Delaware, We the People, could get a lot of people re-connected to some of the best history that this country has laid down.
"How did our dear land become so swiftly a corporate banker dominated system that laid down such a solid foundation of genocide on the indigenous dwellers and slavery and indentured servitude on free blacks from Africa and the desperately poor whites in Europe? When did we go for empire and plunder instead of Common Sense, the Bill of Rights and The Statue of Liberty?"