[MD] Free Speech

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> Speaking of American being the land of free speech... I learned today that New
> Model Army (a British alt-punk band), a favorite of mine for years, were denied
> visas to perform on the 2007 world tour for having a song on their album
> "critical of the Iraq war". Oddly, the song that got them banned from entering
> the US, "Bloodsports", sings of the war from a British soldier's perspective,
> capturing the fear and emotion of being in a war.
> 
> Interestingly, this same band was denied entry into in the US back in 1986 for
> having a song critical of the US, "51st State", a song about imperialism and
> militias.
> 
> And since both of these denials come from republican administrations (including
> the near-mythic Utopia of The Age of Reagan, I expect freedom loving
> republicans to be even more outraged than I.

Why does any country have visas? 

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