Mark Lewis wrote:
> Tommy wrote:
>
>> Motor City Madman runs afoul of LULAC
>> Nugent Barred From Houston Venue (by jew) After Alleged Immigrant Bashing
>>
>>
>> by Mark Lewis
>> LiveDaily.com
>> After rock musician Ted Nugent allegedly made denigrating and
>> profanity-laced remarks about Latinos at a Houston concert, venue
>> management said that he won?t play there again. And the League of United
>> Latin American Citizens plans to register its concerns with Sony Music
>> Entertainment, which owns Nugent?s label Legacy, a state LULAC official
>> said. Nugent, opening for KISS at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on
>> April 1, allegedly launched into a diatribe on stage about Latino
>> immigrants. ?If you?re not gonna speak English, get the **** out of
>> America,? he told the crowd, according to pavilion president David
>> Gottlieb, who was at the concert. Gottlieb added that Nugent?s use of the
>> word ?faggot? throughout the show was also a factor.
>>
>> ?We feel that when people spend good money on a concert, they
>> shouldn?t have
>> to be abused because of their ethnicity, race or lifestyle,? Gottlieb
>> said.
>> This is the first time in its 11-year history that the non-profit
>> venue has
>> made the decision to bar a performer, he added.
>>
>> Following the concert, Nugent reiterated his position on immigrants
>> when he
>> spoke to the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday (4/5). ?If you?re going to be
>> an asset to America,? Nugent said, ?it would only be logical to speak the
>> language. How can you be a benefit to your family, neighborhood or
>> country
>> if you can?t speak to your fellow citizens? C?mon, if you can?t speak
>> English, get out of America.?
>>
>> Some media sources reported that the League of United Latin American
>> Citizens, which has 115,000 members nationwide and 250 councils in Texas,
>> would organize a national boycott of future Nugent concerts.
>>
>> But according to Texas LULAC chief of staff Denise Nuņo, the league is
>> not
>> planning a state or national boycott. (A spokesperson at LULAC?s national
>> office said that all activities related to Nugent were being handled by
>> Texas councils.) Instead, LULAC plans to notify other cities about
>> Nugent?s
>> remarks and to contact Nugent?s record label Legacy, the Sony-owned label
>> which has re-released many of Nugent?s Epic label albums from the
>> ?70s. The
>> league also plans to notify Sony?s corporate headquarters about its
>> concerns.
>>
>> ?I don?t believe there?s a sponsor in the world that wants to associate
>> themselves with that kind of activity,? Nuņo said. ?There?s a lot of
>> buying
>> power in the Hispanic community.?
>>
>> She also said that her group was not trying to stifle Nugent?s right
>> to free
>> speech.
>>
>> ?LULAC serves to protect the civil rights of all Americans? It [the
>> concert]
>> was a poor forum for him to use?we object to that. Role models should
>> promote civil rights and social unity. His comments promote immigration
>> bashing, racial hatred and divisiveness in our country, and that?s
>> what we
>> object to.?
>>
>> Nugent?s management had no comment. The musician is opening for KISS
>> through
>> April 30.
>>
>> http://www.whiterevolution.com/archives/20050604/cat-scratch-fever
>
>
> Hell, if they DO, i"ll be sure ta buy tickets when he comes 'round here.
> *LOL*
>
> BTW, I didn't know I was a writer for LiveDaily.Com. ;)
If you guys who graduated HS in the late 1970s remember it,
"Stranglehold" is an awesome song to play at extremely high volume as
you cruise through Latino neighborhoods late at night. One section of
the lead sounds like about 8000 cop cars headed your way at the speed of
sound. Highly recommended.
--
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
--Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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"Sometimes, Evil drives a mini-van."
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