Hmmm ! - Speaking from the UK side of the pond I would dispute the statement "our Government is out of control" - Your government may be, but at least amongst all the crap, lies and direct encouragement to anti working class enactments that GWB Jnr espouses, there is one beacon of decency, the removal of Saddam Hussain.

Not that this outways his other sins.

I suggest that the removal of the draft might be a cause for the downsizing of musical protest.

But then no one, not even DougR, can claim that GWB Jnr volunteered to put his own life on the line in Viet-Nam. That is a pity for if GWB Jnr had been in that position, mixing with conscripts etc., seeing life from the fire line, his attitude might be different.

But on the subject of "RAP", I fear that I must sympathise with the views of Kin Howells MP. Any music that treats firearms as "fashion accessory" is out of order. - At least in Country & Western the young Cowboy who "took his guns to town" tended to die with his boots on, either meeting a faster gun, or dangling on a rope.

Gareth