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- Subject: Re: Police seek to Ban Ice-T Performing In New Zealand
- Message-ID: <13073.2a6ea4e3@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:24:02 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.003134.22372@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>
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- In article <1992Jul22.003134.22372@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- > Police are seeking to ban singer Ice T from performing in Auckland,
- > New Zealand. Police commissoner John Jamieson has referred the album Body
- > Count to the Indecent Publications Tribunal and information is awaited
- > from the United States Police of the backgrounds of people going to
- > perform in Auckland. Mr Jamieson has objected to lyrics in the album,
- > especially those in the song Cop Killer, which advocates killing police.
- >
- > Rock critic Colin Hogg says Ice T was role-playing in the song and that
- > New Zealand teenagers would not realise that this was an insult to their
- > intelligence. Ice T had played a New York Policeman fighting the drug
- > world in the film "New Jack City". "Ice T performed here a couple of
- > years ago and I don't recall the city burning" Hogg said.
- >
- > Jerry Levin of Time Warner the record distrubutors, said Cop Killer
- > was not written to incite blacks to attack police but potrayed how
- > such a person might feel. "Its a song about how one of those kids
- > reacts in the wake of the well-known incidents in which a small number
- > of police have used excessive force", he said.
- >
- > Radio Active DJ's have started a petition againest a possible concert
- > ban.
- >
- > Ice T is performing as a guest of Public Enemy on Aug 11th in the Auckland
- > Town Hall. Concert perfomer sqaid Ice-T would not perform any of the songs
- > from the album Body Count, such as Cop Killer.
- >
- > Mr Jamieson who is concerned the concert may incite crime said: "If Ice-T
- > is not using Cop Killer and the other violent material from the album
- > then my concerns hav abated but not entirely disappeared, particularly
- > when the advertisment for the concert includes the silhouette of a
- > police officer in the sights of a rifle.
-
- *
- Hip-hopper or cop in the crosshairs? Why did no one notice PE's insignia
- before? Or are you talking about a different silhoutte.?
-
-
- ==Phyz
-
- >
- > --
- > Red
- >
- > In the STATES they've set up a deprogramming centre where you can take
- > your derranged punk child or metal kid. And how you deal with it when
- > they start getting posters or acting strange. If you start listening
- > to this music they've got centres where they take you to get deprogrammed.
- > That'll happen in New Zealand you know.
- >
- > Brett (skinhead) Toxic Avengers, New Plymouth.
- >
- >
-