Music_Censorship

Music Censorship Music Censorship: A Violation of The First Amendment “Eventually it was discovered that God did not want us to be all the same. This was bad news for the Governments of the World… Mankind must be made more uniformly if THE FUTURE was going to work out…It was about the time that someone came up with the idea of TOTAL CRIMINILATION, based on the principle that if we were ALL crooks we could at least be uniform to some degree in the eyes of the law. Shrewdly our legislators calculated that most people were too lazy to perform a REAL CRIME. So new laws were manufactured making it possible for anyone to violate them at any time of the day or night…which is on of the reasons why music was eventually made ILLEGAL.” ---Frank Zappa, liner notes from Joe’s Garage, Acts 2&3 (CBS, 1979) The first Amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (Friendly). Music, like any other form of expression in this music, censorship, artists, people, right, should, just, freedom, own, first, listen, censored, amendment, wentz, rap, decide, choose, religion, new, ideas, form, expression, because, bad, about, ways, view, under, today, songs, something, rappers, power, person, opinions