Thanks for the song, Larry, and I agree with many others that it deserves hearing as a revelation of a specific wrong that was done, and as an example of the wrong-minded racism that is present in nearly every society.

Having said that, I should also say that I think I know why your bandmembers quit. Your song does display a certain nostalgia for the "good old days" of repression of the Communist police state, as opposed to these treacherous days of freedom when the evil individuals of Czechoslovakia are free to express their pent-up racist urges. Is it the purpose of government to act as a restraint against the basic wicked nature of Mankind? Does terror and murder inflicted by a police state have a higher moral authority than that inflicted by the man on the street?

I find incredible your statement that Democracy,representing the "Tyranny of the Majority", is a "crime against humanity." I assume from that statement that you would prefer a benevolent dictatorship. When was the last time you witnessed one of those? Whoever stated that your song would not have been allowed under the benevolent police state that ruled Czechoslovokia, had it right.

The concern expressed in your song I find quite moving. The sentiments behind it are what I have a problem with. You have your right to sing it, I have my right to question your motives. That is, thank God, what Democracy is really all about.

LEJ

LEJ