From: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
Subject: Re: Boring topics
Reply-To: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:05:49 GMT


In article <1992Jul23.022041.350@alf.pec.co.nz>, joergs@alf.pec.co.nz (Joerg Steinke) writes:
>
>In article <Brrn00.D4n@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mcwg9235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marsha Cook Woodbury) writes:
>>The reason the topics are boring is that very few
>>women are participating...:-)
>>-- 
>>Marsha Woodbury   marsha-w@uiuc.edu

>
>Hey presto : it's Marsha again ...
>
>Marsha, who doesn't know much about the rest of the world outside her home-town
>What do they teach you at university these days ??
>Feminism ??
>.... how exciting !! ( yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn )
>
><<< joergs@pec.co.nz >>>                              ein Muenchner im "Himmel"
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Yea, I find that observation a bit sexist myself ;-)

Anyway to change the boring subject, what do people think of the Police
seeking to ban Ice-T from playing in New Zealand due to lyrics they
claim advocate violence to police? For those not in the know, I'll include 
the article here:


Police are seeking to ban singer Ice T from performing in Auckland, 
New Zealand. Police commissoner John Jamieson has referred the album Body
Count to the Indecent Publications Tribunal and information is awaited
from the United States Police of the backgrounds of people going to
perform in Auckland. Mr Jamieson has objected to lyrics in the album,
especially those in the song Cop Killer, which advocates killing police.

Rock critic Colin Hogg says Ice T was role-playing in the song and that
New Zealand teenagers would not realise that this was an insult to their
intelligence. Ice T had played a New York Policeman fighting the drug
world in the film "New Jack City". "Ice T performed here a couple of 
years ago and I don't recall the city burning" Hogg said.

Jerry Levin of Time Warner the record distrubutors, said Cop Killer
was not written to incite blacks to attack police but potrayed how
such a person might feel. "Its a song about how one of those kids
reacts in the wake of the well-known incidents in which a small number
of police have used excessive force", he said.

Radio Active DJ's have started a petition againest a possible concert
ban.

Ice T is performing as a guest of Public Enemy on Aug 11th in the Auckland
Town Hall. Concert perfomer sqaid Ice-T would not perform any of the songs
from the album Body Count, such as Cop Killer.

Mr Jamieson who is concerned the concert may incite crime said: "If Ice-T
is not using Cop Killer and the other violent material from the album 
then my concerns hav abated but not entirely disappeared, particularly
when the advertisment for the concert includes the silhouette of a 
police officer in the sights of a rifle.

--
Red

In the STATES they've set up a deprogramming centre where you can take
your derranged punk child or metal kid. And how you deal with it when
they start getting posters or acting strange. If you start listening
to this music they've got centres where they take you to get deprogrammed.
That'll happen in New Zealand you know.

Brett (skinhead) Toxic Avengers, New Plymouth.