• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: RECORDS BANNED DURING THE GULF WAR

This here is an example of the different "mentality, attitude" between the USA and Europe, UK included.
These reactions are always surprising me, and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE.
Who decides events like this, or burning albums: WHY? I am sure that religion plays a role. I love the USA, the people, but there are facts I will never understand. THE LAND OF THE FREE!! I went to Florida 15 years ago, and to Orlando, alone, wife and daughter at home, I had too much work and needed to escape.
When I stood in a long line, all people waiting for passport control, the tip of my foot was 1 cm over the white line, and a few seconds later, a police-woman, touched my foot with her "base ball stick", almost SHOUTING, can't you read, behind the white lines!!! I was really very surprised. I agree, you need discipline, respect, but it was just the way of telling it. Also, if a police officer stops your car, in the rain, and almost dark, wearing reflecting sunglasses.
But here some songs
- WATERLOO                                                     ABBA
- WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN                                 THE BANGLES
- BACK IN THE USSR                                         THE BEATLES
- IN THE AIR TONIGHT                                       PHIL COLLINS
- A VIEW TO KILL                                               DURAN DURAN
- LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE                               EDDY GRANT
- SATURDAY NIGHT IS ALLRIGHT FOR FIGHTING   ELTON JOHN 
- SOLDIER OF LOVE                                             DONNY OSMOND
- I'M ON FIRE                                                     BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
- I'M IN THE ARMY NOW                                      STAUS QUO

I will never understand: the elections, baseball, American Football, The juridical system, Deathrow, where some people, guilty of a disgusting crime, sitting there more than 10 years
Police officers, using violence to arrest a man. (What happens, if violence is used by the police, and they are 100% not guilty, can or do they receive a compensation?)
But my US love will never change.

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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  • From: Stockton Ca
  • Registered: 2007-10-19
  • Posts: 192

Re: RECORDS BANNED DURING THE GULF WAR

The Government doesn't ban records in the US.   Records with profane lyrics will not be played on free radio,  but they can be played on subscriber services, like satellite, or cable.

Someone who is beaten during an arrest can, and often does, get compensation, regardless of guilt. 
If some one resists arrest in Belgium don't the police subdue them?

  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: RECORDS BANNED DURING THE GULF WAR

They act a lot less violent than in the USA, but as it is : you will find and this is for every profession, some d**heads, who are kicking on their uniform. Also in a hospital, when you see a MD, most are working to specialise in cardiology, surgeon ... There are some, always dressed in green and a white coat, FULL OF USELESS THINGS: Beepers, 10 Parkers, 2 stethoscopes, one around the neck and one in a pocket. WHAT IF SOMEBODY, LIKE A VISITOR WOULD SAY, HE NURSE. I hate, and I am still modest people who find themselves so important. I have a friend, USA native, but with a "Spanish name", who made fortune in Seattle, and was chosen to be the head of the Seattle Police. He was driving with a Lincoln through a "Spanish" quarter, they stopped him, acted very aggressive, beated him in the back of the knees, so he felt on his knees, insulting him with words as dirty "spic", you stole that car, until one of the police officers recognised him from CNN, no harm done, no apologies, only you were driving in a dangerous area. They didn't know at all, because he didn't mention that police fact, and a few days later, he invited them in his office. They start almost crying, begging, but he just told them: if I suspend all of you, your family would be punished even more.
I am not sure here, but we are a CHAMPION of keeping, guilty or not, people in jail for 1 month, and depending on the judge, you can stay there sometimes a few months, BEFORE trial.

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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