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- Subject: Re: Police seek to Ban Ice-T Performing In New Zealand
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.020531.10089@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>
- From: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:05:31 GMT
- Reply-To: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
- Sender: news@peponi.wcc.govt.nz (NEWS)
- References: <1992Jul22.003134.22372@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> <1992Jul22.145428.26946@nrao.edu>,<92204.111928U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- In article <92204.111928U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>, U19807@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.145428.26946@nrao.edu>, lmiller@heineken.tuc.nrao.edu
- >(Luther Miller) says:
- >>
- >>The most amusing thing about the entire _Cop Killer_ media hype is that
- >>the song is from a Heavy Metal band, Cop Killer (lead by Ice-T). There
- >
- >The name of Ice-T's speed metal band is Body Count,actually....
- >
-
- Right you are, Ice_T is playing solo this time, last time they were
- here a couple of years ago he played with Body Count.
-
- >>have been plenty of songs in the past that convey negative messages about
- >>the police, such as NWA's _Fuck tha Police_, and they were rap. Now the
- >>media is trying to give rap a bad name for a heavy metal song.. Pretty
- >>damned stupid if you ask me.
- >
-
- The reason for the ban is obviously not for the fact the song is a
- heavy rap/metal crossover song, its the lyrics the police dont like
- as they believe it advocates violence towards policemen. What an
- insult to the young music lovers of Enzed, who are they to tell us
- what we should listen to, I say!
-
- >Know what I find funny and/or stupid about all this? Isn't it just a tad
- >suspect that the cops would be up in arms about all this when the LAPD were
- >caught beating the mortal shit out of Rodney King red-handed on video? This
- >flap about "Cop Killer" doesn't sound too much like a cover-up in many ways,
- >does it?
- >
-
- Interesting we are due to have another South Africian rugby tour soon,
- the Springbox tour a few years ago saw violence and riot police, with
- footage of people being knocked by riot police bearing truncheons.
-
- >BTW,since when did an amendment to the Constitution get passed that said that
- >the police-or any other authority figure-had the right to abridge someone's
- >first amendment rights because they said something they didn't like? Is it
- >me,or does the spectre of _unelected_ officials pulling all this boycott crap
- >sound like certain people are thinking they have the Divine Right Of Kings
- >these days?
-
- Yes the freedom of speech in The Waitangi Treaty (closet to the Constitution
- as in NZ's own).
-
- --
- Red
-
- " yes we can say anything we want as long its not about the government
- or police" ;-) Kevin (fellow workmate's comment)
-
-
- > ** Chris Krolczyk,esq. * DISCLAIMER: My opinions are in **
- > ** Maniac-at-Large * no way endorsed by the Univer- **
- > ** U19807@UICVM.BITNET * sity of Illinois at Chicago. **
- > ** u19807@uicvm.uic.edu * So there. Nyaah. **
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