If this is not about censorship, what is it about?
At one point in the miners strike here in Britain, the country could be said to be equally divided between support and opposition - does this mean there should have been a blanket ban on the writing of songs on the subject for fear of upsetting one side or the other COME ON!!!!
The Viet Nam war produced some of our best contemporary songs - should they not have been written for fear of upsetting our American cousins and the people in Britain who supported the war.
I said right at the beginning that the making of political songs was part of our tradition and nobody contradicted me. it would appear that, to some - THE TRADITION STOPS HERE
Not as far as I'm concerned; I have no intention of giving up any of the miniscule say I might have in what happens in this world in deference to a handful of sensitive souls who object to my having my say, and I see no reason (certainly not presented here) why anybody else should
Jim Carroll