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February 27, 2006
i am human and i need to be loved...just like everybody else does...
Everyone who knows Morrissey knows that he's not very good taking criticism. In fact, when Joe and I saw him last fall (best concert EVAH!), he was talking about a car accident he had been in the week before and some fan heckled him a little bit about it and he was very hurt and wouldn't finish the story. I think he even cut a song out of the lineup because of one stupid idiot guy.
Well now the tables have turned and he's been called out for HIS criticism. The US government apparently has dear Morrissey on a watchlist for dissent against the UK and US (my god, don't they have better things to do?).
According to MTV UK news:
Morrissey was questioned by the FBI and British intelligence after speaking out against Bush and Blair, the singer has revealed.Mozza, a famous critic of the war in Iraq, has previously branded the US President a “terrorist”. He said: “The FBI and the Special Branch have investigated me and I’ve been interviewed and taped and so forth. They were trying to determine if I was a threat to the government, and similarly in England. But it didn’t take them very long to realise that I’m not.
“I don’t belong to any political groups,” he continued, “I don’t really say anything unless I’m asked directly and I don’t even demonstrate in public. I always assume that so-called authoritarian figures just assume that pop/rock music is slightly insane and an untouchable platform for the working classes to stand up and say something noticeable.
“My view is that neither England or America are democratic societies. You can’t really speak your mind and if you do you’re investigated.”
I'm pretty sure that I'm on some stupid watchlist because I've ranted on my blog, because I've signed petitions, and because although, ironically, I'm exercising the absolute most American right we have--free speech-- and as a result, I'm probably considered unpatriotic. I can't figure out why it's patriotic to want to give up our privacy, our freedom of speech and billions and billions of my taxpaying dollars to people who spend it very poorly...
Posted by crystallyn at February 27, 2006 07:51 AM
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