Speaking of American being the land of free speech... I learned today that New Model Army (a British alt-punk band), a favorite of mine for years, were denied visas to perform on the 2007 world tour for having a song on their album "critical of the Iraq war". Oddly, the song that got them banned from entering the US, "Bloodsports", sings of the war from a British soldier's perspective, capturing the fear and emotion of being in a war.
Interestingly, this same band was denied entry into in the US back in 1986 for having a song critical of the US, "51st State", a song about imperialism and militias. And since both of these denials come from republican administrations (including the near-mythic Utopia of The Age of Reagan, I expect freedom loving republicans to be even more outraged than I. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
