Moz fans protest Bush admin./war in L.A.
posted by davidt on Monday March 22 2004, @08:00AM

ASmith writes:

Jake at Lying Media Bastards spotted groups of Moz fans at a 3/20 LA anti-war protest:

"For reasons still not entirely clear to me, a friend of mine decided to organize a contingent made up of fans of musicians Morrissey and The Smiths. The group cleverly called itself "Louder Than Bombs," after a Smiths album. All their signs had song lyrics, either in their original forms, or slightly tweaked to spread an anti-war message. Some of the best were "If it's not love, then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, that will bring us together," "Come armageddon," "Hang the newsmen," "Shoplifters for peace," and "They do the military two-step down the nape of our necks." (Trust me, if you're a Smiths fan, these are all very funny)

They also sang Smiths and Morrissey songs, with lyrics switched up to denounce war. Creative and amusing, yet I still have no idea why they choce to take this theme and run with it.

(Hmm, I'll have to play some Smiths on my radio show Monday to commerorate this weirdness.)"
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    Napalm Death T-Shirt? (Score:1)
    Is the guy in the first picture (on the left) wearing a Napalm Death "From enslavement to obliteration" T-Shirt? Not very Moz/Smiths-like, eh?

    PS: Ok, don't ask me how I know this :P
    nilugo -- Monday March 22 2004, @09:01AM (#91403)
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    Thank God for a Few People with Courage (Score:1)
    Isn't it strange how so many people (even some of the loving and kind Moz fans) want to allow terrorists and evil dictators to continue killing innocent people on purpose. War is never pretty and never fun. There aren't too many people in the world who are pro war. However, it seems there are a lot of people who don't understand that protecting innocent lives requires sacrifice and difficult decisions.

    So every time I see the spineless bastards who want to give terrorists free reign in the world, I thank God for people who have the courage to stand up against evil. Whenever I see people who's brain cells have degenerated so much that they equate Bush with Hitler and Osama, I thank God for those who see him as sincerely (however bumbling at times) trying to do what is best for the country and the world. I thank God for those who see him as someone who's purpose is to save the lives of innocents, not to destroy them.

    Please, Moz fans, I don't care if you support Bush, but don't support terrorism.
    everdene -- Monday March 22 2004, @09:30AM (#91419)
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    Viva Love !!!!!!!!! (Score:1)
    I enjoy to see all these Moz fans, and particulary in america, because we must BE AGAINST this war.

    It is the oil, and Bush war, not mine, not your !!

    Thanx to have readen a anti-bush and war french but not an anti-US man.

    See U

    Guillaume
    Paris - France
    Guyom M Moz <guillaume.metayer@mairie-paris.fr> -- Monday March 22 2004, @09:37AM (#91422)
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    (Guillaume METAYER /Paris - France)
    oh, happy day (Score:0)
    it's cool to be Republican again!
    Anonymous -- Monday March 22 2004, @01:41PM (#91499)
    fuck bush (Score:1)
    America will never have a good president.
    leedoggpimp <leedoggpimp@hotmail.com> -- Monday March 22 2004, @02:50PM (#91511)
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    True friends stab you in the front.
      Good Job LA Morrissey Fans! (Score:1)
      "We won't vote conservative... because we never have...they always lie!" How about the first song on the new Morrissey CD- "America Is Not The World". KERRY 2004!!!!!!
      texasbloke -- Monday March 22 2004, @02:55PM (#91513)
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      Anti War?! (Score:1)
      I was supposed to go there, and my friend did go~ according to my friend, some of the anti war folks were acting very bad. In particular, the ANSWER people were getting slightly violent. Or maybe I'm the only Morrissey fan who ISN'T anti war?
      tanukisutsu -- Monday March 22 2004, @04:03PM (#91528)
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      • Re:Anti War?! by everdene (Score:1) Tuesday March 23 2004, @06:21AM
        no war, no violence, no hate... (Score:1)
        Mind Games by John Lennon

        We're playing those mind games together
        Pushing the barriers planting seeds
        Playing the mind guerrilla
        Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
        We all been playing those mind games forever
        some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
        Doing the mind guerrilla
        Some call it magic the search for the grail

        Love is the answer and you know that for sure
        Love is a flower you got to let it, you got to let it grow

        So keep on playing those mind games together
        Faith in the future outta the now
        You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
        Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
        Yeah we're playing those mind games forever
        Projecting our images in space and in time

        Yes is the answer and you know and you know that for sure
        Yes is surrender you got to let it, you got to let it go

        So keep on playing those mind games together
        Doing the ritual dance in the sun
        Millions of mind guerrillas
        Putting their soul power to the Karmic wheel
        Keep on playing those mind games forever
        Raising the spirit of peace and love

        (I want you to make love, not war,
        I know you've heard it before)
        Davy_Havok <this_charming_man_13@yahoo.com> -- Monday March 22 2004, @06:03PM (#91551)
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        If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. -John Lennon
        Santa Arbusto / Saint Bush (Score:1)
        Soy español y espero que mi ejercito deje la guerra pronto como ha prometido el nuevo presidente. Me alegro de que en U.S. haya gente que se oponga a este guerra. Si, Sadam es una zorra, ya lo sabemos, pero matar a gente por petroleo no hace que Bush sea una santa. Un abrazo.
        I am Spanish and I hope that my army leaves the war soon like the new president has promised. I am glad in U.S. there are some people who don't like this war. Sadam is a bitch, we know , but kill people for oil don't make Bush a saint. A hug.
        ArrigoXX -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @12:33AM (#91595)
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        Typical Americans (Score:0)
        America is not the world springs to mind!!!!! God you Americans are so stuck up your own hole!! That is not the reason the Germans and the French and the Irish and most of Europe did not support the war. We did not support it because Bush is an idiot, there were no weapons of mass destruction ever found and you need to align yourself with a war to get what you want. As always you believe or convince yourselves that other countries disaggreed with you becasue the had an ulterior motive, they couldnt possibly disagree because you were wrong could they???? Grow up and cop on. Wake up and hear the bombs, the sight of children in Afghanistan and Iraq dying. Their regimes need to be dealt with but not by your overpowering "we do what we want because we are Americans" narrowminded blood thirsty backward point of view. Your country voted in an idiot into power and you continue to highlight your idiocy by standing by his ridicculous deciosions.
        You're an embarrasment to your country, an embarrassment to the world and an embarrasment to Morrissey.

        Disturbed
        Anonymous -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @01:42AM (#91602)
        Wise up you fools! (Score:0)
        As an American, this disgusts me! These hippy, no values, a-holes don't realize that the Muslim Extremist world is laughing and cheering them on as they parade in protest. Also, every country in the world would try to take over our country if we didn't have an army, and make a stand against terror and foreign threats. You cry babies wouldn't be allowed to protest under an Islamic Extremist government. It's so "cool" to be PC and slag America now days. IF you don't like it, try to change it. DO SOMETHING! Don't just whine and cry. Or get the hell out!
        Anonymous -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @08:45AM (#91675)
          oh, happy day (Score:0)
          it's cool to be fascist again!

          right is the new left!

          black is the new white!

          old is the new young!

          at last one can drop a turd in peace
          Anonymous -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @09:24AM (#91687)
            I support Bush! (Score:1)
            I am a Smiths/Moz fan but I am also a supporter of Bush and I believe that removing Saddam from power was the right thing to do. I suppose all you peace lovers and human rights activists think it's okay for a dictator to torture, rape, and murder thousands upon thousands of his own people.
            jmurphy -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @09:25AM (#91690)
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            heehee (Score:1)
            Cool
            redpathetic <tvandmuchchoc@yahoo.ca> -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @09:42AM (#91699)
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            Happy in this final acceptance of his own absurdity...Albert Camus
              National Front Disco (Score:0)
              Auslander Raus!
              Anonymous -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @10:42AM (#91716)
              But hey,! (Score:0)
              Bush is an saved alchoholic who believes he's on a mission against the evil in the world. So i say fuck weapons of mass destruction.
                  Isn't it so that a majority of the americans belives that saddam hussein was behin 9/11 ?

              There's no logic in fear, terror, counter-terror, religous-fanatism.. either it is muslim or christian(christan-right).

              There's no logic in guantanamo, there's no logic in war!
              Anonymous -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @01:14PM (#91747)
              • Re:But hey,! by clueless_joe (Score:0) Tuesday March 23 2004, @03:41PM
                • Re:But hey,! by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday March 25 2004, @07:06PM
                  • Re:But hey,! by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday March 26 2004, @01:28AM
                  Re:bleh (Score:2, Interesting)
                  "Using Mozzer's lines to be "ANTI-AMERICAN" only taints his music." - Hmmm...what about Mexico, America Is Not The World?...Morrisey isn't exactly the most pro-American person ever is he?
                  DanielGaunt -- Monday March 22 2004, @10:38AM (#91449)
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                    Re:GORGEBUSCH is the real TERORIST!!!!!! (Score:1)
                    Never, ever has someone's nickname been more accurate, in so many ways.

                    By the way, CJ, I pasted your posts into Word, started the spell checker, and my computer blew up. Who's the "terarist" now?
                    WordSmith -- Monday March 22 2004, @11:38AM (#91471)
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                      you might be an unappreciated genius (Score:0)
                      no joke!
                      Anonymous -- Monday March 22 2004, @01:39PM (#91498)
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                        Re:bleh (Score:1)
                        How is protesting or using Morrissey lyrics in a protest "ANTI-AMERICAN?"

                        Let me guess: "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists."
                        half-a-person -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @12:06AM (#91592)
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