from rosebrooks post ^up there^

" I would like to hear more from those of you who are proposing this song be censored regarding how that is to be done. Who is the person or persons who will choose what voices to silence? How is that person/group chosen/appointed to do this job? What would be the proposed criteria for judging the material and determining whether it meets with approval or with censorship? "

I have really been thinking hard about this one. I find that I doubt very much that it is possible to find a way to have 'some' censorship without the privilege being abused, but I also have this visceral feeling that if the job were offered to me, I would take it! (not that there is much chance!)Although I know that strict 'cause & effect' does not apply to the effect such music might have on society, I am totally convinced that the effects are real and negative over the long term. It is a sad thing that the only solutions for certain problems are so drastic that we can never consider using them until the situation is in total crisis! (the situation with the Amazon rainforest for example...the world needs to simply tell Brazil that they MUST stop the destruction...but no one dares to say it, and it would mean international chaos to try it!)
....so..since I can't think of anyone I would trust with the job of censor, and you all probably don't trust me, it will just remain as it is, and we will continue to have songs like 'Cop Killer' and all the social ills that led to anyone writing it in the first place.

There is a well known formula for cooking frogs..(you simply put the frog in a kettle of water and raise the temperature VERY slowly until it is too late for the frog to realize he has a problem). I'm afraid many of the world's problems are like that...(population, pollution, overfishing, Microsoft, strip malls, corruption of 'folk music',...etc.)well, you see how sticky it is....I am glad that Max allows all this free discussion, 'cause it lets ME get on my soap box...but doesn't he see that some of the rest of you ought to be edited a bit??? *wink*