Probably just needed a bit more cowbell...
Posted on 04/29/2006 10:27:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Managers at a downtown Cleveland mall told a local band yesterday to tone down their wardrobes or turn off their music.
Members of the Afro-beat band Mifun wore T-shirts critical of President Bush during a performance at Tower City Center. Twenty minutes into their set, the sound system was cut off, and managers told the band members to lose the shirts or abandon the stage.
Band members refused to change the shirts, which had pictures of the president with a line through his face.
Bandleader Jacob Fader said giving in to the demand would have betrayed the band's commitment to free speech.
The crowd at the jazz festival reportedly booed when Mifun was asked to leave the stage.
BUMP
I hate to break it to this buffoon, but there is no such thing as "free speech" in the private commercial world. "Free speech" only limits the Government from stopping it - private citizens do not have to listen to your moronic rants, and the mall owner has every right to throw them out and if a contract was involved then settle it either under the terms of a broken contract or take it to court which liberals are all so willing to do.
While the conspiracy part of me says it it was all planned to gain more notariety, the other side of me laughs out loud.
I doubt if the mall wated to offend over half their customers.
Good for the mall management. I believe they have the right to do this. Offensive political statements detract from a neutral environment were customers just want to enjoy a day of shopping.
T-shirts my ass, it was probably the crap rap.
George is a good hearted guy. He listens to the wrong people most of the time and gets into trouble.........but getting away with breaking wind during the offertory can only earn a person so many friends.
The facts are if the FedGov stuck to their Constitutionally mandated duties there wouldn't be time for this stuff that is really POing the GOP base and dividing the party.
Get out of my garden, my medicine cabinet, my gun case, under the hood of my car and my wallet to buy votes ....may as well be talking to a Genie from a whiskey bottle for all the good it does.
I still remember you and I getting kicked out of the powerplant while freeping kennedy townsend.
It's a private place, so they can do what they want.
I'm not sure why the mall managment would have something like a rock/rap/what-have-you band in there. Back in the day when I worked in a mall, you know, when folks paid with beaver pelts and beads, the mall would go with obviously "family-friendly" stuff like school band music, church coirs, or dudes doing something like a magic act.
And her coming over to gladhand us.
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