A recent statement from NSW Police declaring a ban on ‘rapper-type music’ at the Sydney Royal Easter Show has Tom Tanuki asking why we don’t just ban everything.
NSW POLICE are banning “rapper-type music” at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, to quote the NSW Police Assistant Commissioner.
Someone was fatally stabbed last year at the show. The NSW Police say this “rapper-type music’’ is being used to “lure youth into a life of crime”. It’s reminiscent of the 1990’s U.S. anti-rap censorship wave, which saw legends like Ice T, 2 Live Crew and C-Bo dragged through court and the conservative media.
I’m not willing to risk hearing music that gets the youth’s blood up so much that they stab me. Any music that does that is profane and frankly bordering on satanic. So, I say, ban it.
If young people can’t hear these songs, they won’t form little gangs and buy little knives. They won’t think of bad things and will return to experiencing the unvarnished joy of youth — perhaps throwing quoits and playing by the river like I did in my salad days.
But if they do hear these songs anyway – if, say, some lout behind the decks at the Royal Easter Show were to play the contraband for a lark – well, we can just make an example of them and get our NSW Police in to taser the lout, and then get a magistrate to gaol them for a bit. That’s called “sending a strong message”.
Read the article by Tom Tanuki on Independent Australia.