The "Vin has a right to free speech" argument, though I'm not disagreeing with you, is quite an interesting one. I'm not talented enough to be regularly booked anywhere, so I don't get the opportunities to gain a public platform, as Vin did, to spout about a subject unconnected to my musical talents. I have same the thought when I see or read about some low-culture celeb sounding off in the Daily Mail about how we should all be bloody vegan or about how we should be bringing up our kids, etc. We all have the right to say these things but we don't all the same "right" (aka access) to the platform that they have. Well I suppose I could petition the Mail's editor to let me have a double-page spread with colour photos of me with me tits heaving out, accompanied by my thoughts on the evils of eating red meat, or the merits of homeopathy, or how pomegranate juice and goji berries saved my life, or how great my "therapist" is and everyone should have one, but I somehow doubt it would get me the gig...