Apolitical Staples

Right on. No one said they couldn’t say whatever they wanted. People just exercised their freedom of speech to boycott them. Southern country stations listened to their audience when they pulled their music. What you say might have reprecussions. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from ridicule or rebuke. Of course the Chicks are just as if not more popular with Canadian fans and more pop/country listeners now.

“Freedom of Speech does not include freedom to piss of your market without cost.”

True. But it shouldn’t include the need for personal security because of death threats.

Were they put under house arrest or something,or am I missing something?, there are artists around the world who would love to have the freedom the Dixie Chicks had and still have, and Chicks seem to have done well out of the whole thing.Remember the Beatles back in the 60’s having their records burned because of something they said about Jesus, they did not whine they just carried on and got better. But the Chicks are the heroes among some on the left, the same left that will shut down any right- wing speaker they do not agree with.

The Chicks are self-important little twitheads — too bad, because I like some of their music. They were never censored. What they experienced was a free market in action. Candace, as to your comment, I have received death threats for columns (particularly when it concerns the Middle East). I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but when you speak publicly, the nuts come out of the woodwork.

“you speak publicly, the nuts come out of the woodwork”

True. But I find it ironic that nuts on the right, ready to fight for freedoms, threaten lives of those who say something they don’t like. There’s just something wrong about that, IMHO.

And it is just “nuts on the right” that make death threats against things they don’t like. Right!

Candace, Nuts cross the political spectrum. The ones who threaten me are “peaceniks” on the left. You know, the ones who were chanting, “We are all Hezbollah now,” last summer…The ones who want us all to “live in peace.” I would humbly suggest there is something wrong with threatening anyone’s life, simply because they have voiced an opinion you don’t like, whatever your political colours are.