"I Kill Children" is the ninth song on the Dead Kennedys album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.
It satirizes America's twin obsessions with extreme violence and conservatism.
Lester Bangs dismissed it as a "critical but impotent" fantasy and said the closest thing to a funny line was "offer them a helping hand of open telephone wires".
[2] Eckhard Gerdes compared the song to the skinhead fiction of experimental writer Harold Jaffe.
[3] The line spoken at the beginning, "God told me to skin you alive" - which Jello Biafra claims to have taken from a Chick tract - was later used as the title of a Winston Smith collage that was used as the artwork for Green Day's Insomniac album.