Donned head to toe in full riot gear, Maynard James Keenan of Tool took a brief moment from his band's headlining performance at the 2017 Boston Calling music festival to share some very particular words with the crowd on a certain group of people.

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"As artists, we interpret and report, that's our job. We are merchants of emotion. We have the privilege to do that because of active and former law enforcement and military defending our right to do so."

Kennan went on to say, "Those of you who are law enforcement and military, your job is to defend our right to act like whining, entitled snowflake assholes. Myself being one. Snowflakes, your job is to respect that I'm f**king doing that for you. Divided we fall. Don't believe the hype dumb-dumbs, we're all in this together."

Keenan previously served in the US Army as a forward observer before founding Tool, and Boston Calling was held over the Memorial Day weekend.

Watch his full speech in the video below!