from advertising executives to

Christian ministers have found

if you want to speak to teenagers, rock

and roll is the perfect weapon—a

sucker punch that catches kids by surprise

and delivers the desired message.

If rock and roll ditches its sometimes

running mates, sex and drugs,

and in their place a positive message is

added, then you have a powerful tool

for entering the mind of teenagers.

But what if that message was mixed

with paranoid scenarios of police running

rampant through the streets as

crop dusters buzz overhead, spewing

sickness upon the masses, under the

watchful eye of a government that

monitors every movement of its citizens.

An Orwellian nightmare that

sounds similar to a conspiracy-theory

special airing on some obscure cable

network, it is this type of radical thinking

that can terrify the mind of a susceptible

teenager.

Now imagine that mind belonged

to your high school son or daughter,

and the message, spiced with religious

flavors, was fed to them by a group

brought into your local district for a

school-sponsored presentation.

Born in 1997 out of the basement

of leader and drummer Bradlee Dean,

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide

tours area high schools in tandem with

the band Junkyard Prophet in the

hopes of enlightening disgruntled

teens to sensible decision-making. In

the process it has raised questions concerning

their intentions and whether

or not they cross the allowable line

separating church and state.