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:''For beliefs believed to be of sound judgement, see [[Common sense]].''

[[image:commonsense.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Common Sense by Thomas Paine]]

'''''Common Sense''''' was a pamphlet first published on [[January 10]], [[1776]], during the [[American Revolutionary War]] by [[Thomas Paine]]. Its pages contained a denouncement of [[Great Britain|British]] rule.

==The Definition Of Streetpunk==

Arguments against British rule in ''Common Sense'':

*It was ridiculous for an [[island]] to rule a [[continent]]

*America was not a "British nation"; it was composed of influences from all of [[Europe]]

**Even if Britain was the "mother country" of America, that made her actions all the more horrendous, for no mother would harm her children so brutally

*Being a part of [[Britain]] would drag America into unnecessary European wars, and keep it from the international commerce at which America excelled.

*The distance between the two nations made the lag in time about a year for something to go round trip. If there was something wrong in the government, it would take a year before the new America heard back.

*The New World was discovered shortly after the Reformation. This showed the Puritans that God wanted to give them a safe haven from the persecution of British rule.

'''Street punk''' (also known as '''gutterpunk''' in several parts of the world) is both a subgenre of [[punk rock]] and a word that describes people, mostly young, who live on the streets. In the latter case, such people may not identify themselves as "punk."

The publication of this pamphlet was key in the growth of popular support for independence from Britain. [[Thomas Jefferson]] took ideas from both this publication and [[John Locke]] when writing the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]].

People described as "street punks" are mostly [[white]] (or [[Caucasian Race|Caucasian]]) working class, and/or inner city youth who usually have a punk-like appearance. This includes studded leather jackets customised by that individual, torn jeans, plaid [[BDSM fashion|bondage trousers]], bullet belts, studded belts, [[mohawk hairstyle]]s and dyed hair, [[body piercing|piercings]], et cetera. However, many don't have any such appearance, and are sometimes described as "Casuals". The word "punk," in this usage, may have a derogatory intent.

Less-quoted sections of the pamphlet include Paine's over-optimistic view of America's military potential at the time of the Revolution. For example, he spends pages describing how colonial shipyards, by using the large amounts of lumber available in the country, could quickly create a navy that could rival the [[Royal Navy]].

== Streetpunk as a Subculture ==

'Common Sense' was tremendously popular. [[John Taylor Gatto]] has reported that "Thomas Paine’s Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, 20 percent of whom were slaves and 50 percent indentured servants."

Streetpunk is also seen as a reaction against middle class art-school type punks like [[Generation X (band)|Generation X]], as well as what some view as mainstream "trendy" people who embrace the punk lifestyle in what is viewed as a superficial way. Some streetpunks, like some skinheads, even operated in [[crew]]s; these crews sometimes have unifying political agendas and beliefs that kept them together. Others simply exist as house-sized inner-city communes who help each other survive. Although this only occurs amongst the most poverty-stricken of the punk rock subculture and has become uncommon in the [[21st century]], it is worth noting. Also, those "streetpunks" who engage in tribalism are less likely ever to "grow out" of the subculture. More often than not [[Marxist]]s and anarchists hold to the streetpunk music genre due to its subject matter, described below.

==Quotes==

* A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of [[custom]].

* [[Society]] is produced by our wants, and [[government]] by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our [[vice]]s. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.

* Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, '''tis time to part''.

* But where says some is the king of America? I'll tell you friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the [[George III of the United Kingdom | royal brute of Britain]]. ... so far as we approve of [[monarchy]], that in America <u>the law is king</u>.

== Streetpunk Music ==

==Further reading==

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* Scott Liell, ''46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence'', [http://www.runningpress.com/ Running Press], April, 2003, hardcover, 160 pages, ISBN 076241507X; trade paperback, March, 2004, 176 pages, ISBN 0762418133

The street punk music genre started with the [[Oi!]] music scene in the late [[1970s]] and early [[1980s]] in [[Great Britain]], but on early streetpunk acts one can still feel the influence of late 70s British pub rock and cockney glam noize. This form of music was developed by bands such as [[Cock Sparrer]], [[The Business]], [[4-Skins]] and [[The Cockney Rejects]]. It started as a youth music style with songs about tales of the street, [[crew]] or [[gang]] life, police violence, easy girls, and teenage drunk mayhem. Streetpunk bands of the mid '80s include [[The Skeptix]], [[Abrasive Wheels]], and [[Attak]]. Today street punk bands can be found all over the world. Today's street punk is dominated by [[the Casualties]], [[Deadline]], [http://wastekrew.cjb.net USA Waste][[A Global Threat]], [[Career Soldiers]], [[The Unseen]], [[Cheap Sex]], [[Lower Class Brats]], and others. Their lyrics often talk about having fun at shows, unity, police oppression, social problems, anti-establishment and the punk scene itself.

==External links==

===Book text===

* [http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/ At ushistory.org]

* [http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/ Free audio book at ushistory.org]

* [[Project Gutenberg]]: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/147 #147] & [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3755 #3755]

===Streetpunk Bands===

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The following list of musicians and bands are identified with the streetpunk subculture, but not all of them are considered to be of the [[Oi!]] or streetpunk genre of music.

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*[[4-Skins]]

*[[A Global Threat]]

*[[Abrasive Wheels]]

*[[Against All Authority]]

*[[Ann Beretta]]

*[[Anti-Heroes]]

*[[Attak]]

*[[The Brassknuckle Boys]]

*[[The Briggs]]

*[[The Bruisers]]

*[[The Business]]

*[[Career Soldiers]]

*[[The Casualties]]

*[[Cheap Sex]]

*[[Cock Sparrer]]

*[[The Cockney Rejects]]

*[[Clit 45]]

*[[Damage Case]]

*[[Deadline]]

*[[Dissucks]]

*[[The Forgotten]]

*[[The God Awfuls]]

*[[I Farm]]

*[[Kill The Man Who Questions]]

*[[Lifetime (band) | Lifetime]]

*[[Lower Class Brats]]

*[[Oxymoron]]

*[[Pistol Grip]]

*[[Rizzo Machine]]

*[[The Skabs]]

*[[The Skeptix]]

*[[Swingin' Utters]]

*[[The Templars]]

*[[Time bomb 77]]

*[[The Unseen]]

*[[The Varukers]]

*[[Le Fray]]

*[[Circle Jerks]]

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