Senator Joseph Lieberman/C. DeLores Tucker

He said:
"The First Amendment has never been absolute."

She said:
"Corporations which refuse to be morally responsible
should not be allowed to exist."

[December 2005 update: She's dead now.]

These two tireless crusaders against free speech and musical expression have been harrying Marilyn Manson, other rock bands and assorted rappers for several years. Their attempts to seek legislation having failed, they now intend - as made publicly clear in Senate Subcommittee hearings since 1996 - to bully the record labels into policing themselves, under threat of losing their licenses to operate. Their supposed concern for America's children has quite plainly become a fanatical craving to see extreme and dissenting voices
silenced at any cost.

Here's some background information:

A May 1999 hearing in the wake of the Columbine High School shootings gave our heroes yet another chance to abuse their positions of privilege. Read about it over here.
---Accounts of their part in the Dec. 1996
Anti-Interscope hearings.
--More on those hearings.
--Lots of information on Tucker's past work can be found at Rock Out Censorship's website-in progress.
--click on "The Roc Magazine" and then go to "Archives."
(While you're there, join ROC! =)


Here's my extended account of the 11/6/97 Senate hearing.

Here's an interview with Lieberman on
Wal-Mart's censorship policy.
Sen. Lieberman's Senate webpage
contains lots of useful info on his position.
Here are some links on Tucker's lawsuit against the estate of Tupac Shakur and her other opinions:

What Shakur really said about Tucker.
Logophobia.

The Angelynx Archive has tons of pro-Manson writings and links.
You can reach me at angelynx@spookhouse.net