Áine, if we have a speaker on the podium who is trying to express an idea, and there are hecklers all over the audience who are shouting and doing their best to prevent the speaker from speaking, what is the appropriate response? I think it's to get the hecklers to shut up, and to allow the speaker to say what he has to say. If you know the lyrics and don't want to post them, that's one thing. If you badger and bully in order to prevent somebody else from posting the lyrics, that's quite another matter.

I very much doubt that I would choose to sing this song if it's as bad as it has been described - but how would I know? If I did sing a song you thought offensive, and you chose to walk out of the concert, that would be an appropriate response on your part - I've done that myself, on occasion. I might even walk out on the Blarney Brothers if they sang this particular song. If you were to climb up on the stage and attempt to prevent me from singing the song, then I think it would be appropriate for me to ask the ushers to assist you in making your statement by walking out of the concert.

This is not a concert. This is a discussion forum. Somebody wants to discuss a song, but how can we discuss it if the bullies around here won't even allow us to see the lyrics? I'm not looking for somebody who espouses the point of view expressed by the lyrics - I just want to see the darn song, and you're preventing me from doing that.

So let me see the song, and THEN we can talk about the SONG, not about the person who posted the damn thing.

-Joe Offer-

And as for the guest who didn't see fit to use a name, this is a song that appears on the Blarney Brothers CD, so it seems to be appropriate to discuss it in this thread. So go piss up a rope.