I am not able to recognise that right of free speech so that it be used to stereotype or ridicule anybody, Joe, and you don't know me for being one of the most politically correct, around here, but I, as an Irishman, would consider it an act of treason to sing a song that glorifies, or continues to perpetuate, suspicion and harassment of a weaker minority.

I don't care WHAT country they come from, or what religion they are!!

If I go to see you play, and you perpuate that myth... I'm outta there, quicker than a skitter through a goat's ass, and I'll head off to some blues joint, where there's none of that kind of crap.

If there is one thing I despise about elements of the right-wing, it's how extremely cruel they can be. I hold no truck with right-wing thought, at the best of times, but there are those among them who want to keep that ole pot a-stirrin'.

So if actually your gripe is that the lyrics need to be in public view, to sasisfy the need you have to fill that criterion of free-speech, well, sure, Joe, all I can say is that kind of 'free-speech' can just go in the bucket. The reason the world is in the state it is in, is because people have to keep shoving the past down others' throats, and telling them never to forget it.

B.