[netgoth] Please Stop Playing Skinny Puppy or We Will Boycott Your Station

[Mojito Liberation Front]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Pauline Law wrote:

> HA HA HA
>
> does anyone find this as funny as i do?  i got it as part of my
> program director email at WRCT. woo-hoo, i'm so scared that people who
> don't typically even listen to college radio will start to not listen
> to my radio station with intent!!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:34:10 -0800 (PST)
> From: AmericanPatriot <americanpatriot2004 at yahoo.com>
> To: warc at allegheny.edu
> Subject: Please Stop Playing Skinny Puppy or We Will Boycott Your Station

[snipped for lenght]
> people of this country have the power as evident by
> our boycott of the Reagan miniseries, the Superbowl,
> and the Dixie Chicks. If you still choose to play
> their music we have the ability to put financial
> pressure on your station through boycotts. Please
> remove Skinny Puppy from rotation or we will have no
> choice but to boycott your station.
>
> Currently, your station is listed on the boycott list
> found here:
> http://www.pabaah.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=717

Ah, good old thug populism.  Poor John must be turning in his grave:

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not 
enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing 
opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other 
means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of 
conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if 
possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with 
its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model 
of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective 
opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain 
it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human 
affairs, as protection against political despotism"

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

-DW