Has anyone here ever heard the AlStewart song "Running Man?" It sounds sympathetic to Nazis hiding out in South America. Very Atypical! Also, any fans of Rush ever notice that the society described in "2112" sounds an awful lot like ZOG?

I don't know if it was about that or not. Stewart is interesting, his song "Last Day of June 1934" was about Hitler having Ernst Rhoem executed, and "Roads to Moscow" was about World War II from a Russian soldier's point of view.

Lyrics to "Running Man" by Al Stewart:

http://www.yimpan.com/Songsite/Lyric/index.asp?sid=717

(Edited slightly for copyright considerations)

Before the phone hits the receiver
You're halfway to the door
The voice said 'get out while you can,
There's just ten minutes, nothing more'

Time only for the essentials
Better gather them and run
The false name inside the passport,
The gold bars and the gun

And once again they've come out of the past
And though your mind is cool your heart is beating fast
You've been through it all before
Each time you wish a little more that you could ask

What do you want from me?
What do you need from me?
There's no rest for the running man
Why can't you let him be?'

It's a long and twisting journey
From the sweeping northern plains
To the outcrops of the jungle
Bowed beneath the tropic rains
In the customs hall the officer
Takes you to one side
And his eyes reveal no feeling
As you hand over the bribe

And once again you've bought a little time
And once again you're fading out of sight
Still the fox is growing older
As he calls over his shoulder to the night

(...)

Here, come over here
Beneath a sympathetic moon
We'll sit and talk over old times without a fear
Another beer, from the cafes of the night
The tumbling rhythms of guitars ring loud and clear

One by one they've nailed the others
But you always got away
What it is that keeps you just that step ahead
No one can say

In one last raid the agents
Of the dawn break down the door
Of a house where you were standing
Maybe just an hour before
And still the thread continues to unwind
You take the hidden roads that only you can find
And should they come upon your tracks
There's just a question hanging back you left behind

What do you want from me?
What do you need from me?
No rest for the running man
Why can't you let him be?

I've never really studied the lyrics of 2112 but it's a great album.
Aren't Rush jewish advocates of the jewish 'libertarian' philosopher Ayn Rand ?

The word on Rush is that they like Ayn Rand but she didn't like them. The lady never could stand rock & roll.

In the 70s when that happened Rush caused a lot of uproar among their fans in the US and Canukistan. Rand was considered a "proto-fascist" by polite company at the time.

This is what makes the Rand cult so odd to me: I know plenty of WNs who were influenced by her, particularly the nifty part of Atlas Shrugged where the brilliant Nordic pirate Ragnar Dangnesjold takes time out from his busy schedule of sinking foreign aid ships to deliver a monody on the decadent effects of the Robin Hood myth.

Who could resist this? I mean in the 70s, when even radical white nationalists had just about nowhere to go? And I should point out that I even met the lady and had no idea she was tribe, not till years later. She was presented to me as a "Russian ex-pat who turned on Communism" and like most Yanks I have no real talent for spotting ethnicity. I figured that was the whole of it.

Her influence was like that. We liked some of the stuff she was putting down but we had no real information about her. And she sometimes influenced people to go in directions she probably would have found surprising.

Anyway that's why I've never bummed Rush for their idiological dabbling, :)