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Inlander:
The point is, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the emergency services in New York - including the cops - were seen to be heroes (quite rightly).  They had also lost a large number of their own.  The fact that the chorus of the song is basically one of the characters taunting the cops was deemed to be inappropriate at the time.

Keith Decent:
free speech is free speech, leaving something out against the artst's intent (original or not) for any reason be it politcal, financial, or social is censorship.

That being said, since 9/11 I feel like I've been living in a fear-driven, violent, redneck theocracy run by those who were and are least effected by terrorism in the world.

I've said my piece.

p.s. I'm a new yorker, and the cops in the city are like cops everywhere... 60% do their job, 20% take their job too seriously (and too far), 10% don't do enough, 5% are corrupt, 2.5% are desk jockeys, 2% are heroes, and .5% are my brother-in-law.

madame psychosis:
because of 9/11 the aussie (wait, new zealand? ah who cares) band Shihad changed their name to...umm...Pacifier, that's it.  because of the Jihad association.

and another aussie band Gerling (awesome band for those who don't know) had to postpone the release of their album 'when yougn terrorists chase the sun'.  i spose they really liked the name

i love how ani difranco was not afraid to talk very honestly and passionately about those events though:


--- Quote ---on a morning beatific
in its indian summer breeze
on the day that america
fell to its knees
after strutting around for a century
without saying thank you
or please

and the shock was subsonic
and the smoke was deafening
between the setup and the punch line
cuz we were all on time for work that day
we all boarded that plane for to fly
and then while the fires were raging
we all climbed up on the windowsill
and then we all held hands
and jumped into the sky


--- End quote ---


from 'self evident'

Spencer:
"Self Evident" is an incredibly powerful poem. I get chills just thinking about her performing it (True story, i just got the chills right now). I remember reading about the poem for months on righteousbabe.com, it was this great work in progross poem that she was posting updates too from time to time. I flew out to Boston a few years ago to see her perform, and I cant even begin to describe the feelings I felt when she recited this piece. Ive seen per perform it once or twice since then (I've seen her 8 times) and it continues to be just as moving. While I certainly don't agree with all of her politics, and most definitly don't agree with everything she says in "Self Evident", I thought that this was (for the most part) a very classy and touching *honest* tribute to the events of 9/11.

Yeah, this has nothing to do with the strokes. But its a pretty safe bet that if someone mentions Ani in a post, I'll chime in and take it on a tangent somewhere.

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