Turkey?

Submitted by Sir Daniel M.J. Tobin (United States), Jan 7, 2011 at 11:39

Thanks Ianus for the report on NATO member Turkey and their terrorists. I hope you are keeping them ... at bay in the cold but lovely country of Poland.

I do not know how you and others will categorize my music, but I know that the vast majority of peaceful, moderate, responsible Moslems,listen to music and read books, and see movies from other countries in many different languages that are not a threat to their religion or families or finances at all, and I want to encourage the reformations and anti-terrorist, non-Islamist individuals wherever I can, and so should all who read these posts.

The tens of thousands who read this blog, can help boycott, and divest from BP, and so many others that support the war without end mentalities of the 2 major American political parties and some of their incumbents, but also contain the radicals within these ravaged Arab nations, that love American business ,accept tourists from all over,journalists, diplomats, educators, students,and medical professionals, and even tolerate the early 1980's American pop star Lionel Richie performing for the renegade rich bigots in Libya, who allowed a concert in 2006 , to memorialize the ill-advised American Operation El Dorado Canyon Bengasi raid in 1986, which did not succeed in removing War Criminal "colonel" Gaddaffi (Abu Minyar) and his minions from power. Not many media outlets covered the story about the irresponsible, "Peace at any price", concert that Richie performed a few years back, and Richie and his blood sucking greedy suits did not apologise for their inflicting emotional distress on the relatives of Gaddaffi's victims, or apologise for promoting business on the terms of a foreign War Criminal and Terrorist, Aiding a Terrorist Regime, and Obstructing Justice.

As far as my music attracting the religious police, how would you know when you have not heard it, have not quoted any of my lyrics, and maybe even think that religious police do not exist in my country? Tipper Gore and Baker's wife and many other powerful censors and would be censors held Public Hearings in the U.S. Congress in the 1980's about lyric content and community standards, and formed the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, to promote putting stickers on recordings that have "offensive lyrics", just as the people who make movies have a ratings system to warn the faint of heart.

I am a religious person myself, so there is no reason to censor me, or try to control my lyrics, as giving me negative publicity is still publicity, and censorship is against The Constitution. Public Standards are shifting, and if we don't allow freedom of speech/freedom of expression cover speech we do not like and do not want to hear, or read, we are on the slippery slope to having no freedoms at all.

Many artists are "into good causes", but are manipulated by agents or managers into sharing their talents for the blood thirsty tyrants who think and say that the arts are just a diversion from the wars against other tyrants, and future threats to life and power. I hope that you will get a copy of my cd sampler, and maybe even old videos and recordings from my friend Eugene Firsow of VA, whose parents worked for Radio Free Europe I think, to enjoy, but also promote good relations with the rational, peaceful Moslems, who should help the reformation within Moslem majority countries, and we will win the war on terrorism with culture, humor, friendship and "kill them with kindness" as my old acquaintance guitarist Keith Reiher of Hempstead once quoted.

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