when john mccollom shot himself while listening to "suicide solution", the media and the religious right quickly blamed ozzy osbourne. i mean, it made perfect sense. he wanted his fans to kill themselves.
when the trenchcoat mafia did the unthinkable in columbine, the religious right blamed the killers' favorite band - marilyn manson. it's very obvious from the lyrics of "freak show" that he endorsed a massacre in a high school.
and god knows that rap music has been blamed for everything in the recent years, from pimping and killing for drugs and whoring out women (okay, actually, they might actually do those things, but it's not meant to be taken literally).
the religious right knows all this, because they've got a personal relationship with jesus and he's not happy about these influences. hey, it's the music's fault and not the fact that there are stupid and crazy people in the world.
quite simply, rather than blaming people, it's easier to accuse music and the musicians who put these evil thoughts in their head.
all of which makes me proud to report that recent killer du jour david ludwig, who shot the parents of his 14-year-old girlfriend in the head, was known to quote lyrics from a christian rock band. so if you followed the religious right's train of thought throughout the years, this boy is a cold-blooded murderer because jesus told him to do so.
sweet.
let's see them talk their way out of this one.
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