Some quick food for thought about the Grammy Awards

Some folks are bitching and crying about the Dixie Chicks winning five Grammies awards this past Sunday. Now it doesn’t really matter to me either way who wins what when it comes to music. I don’t buy music based on who won a gramophone trophy. I buy music because I like the songs.

Likewise, I don’t really give a care about the Dixie Chicks, so it doesn’t really matter to me if they won anything or not.

But here’s some food for thought for all of you neo-cons and fearmongers and Imperium ass-kissers… did it ever occur to any of you that perhaps the reason why the Dixie Chicks WON five Grammy awards is BECAUSE you were quick to crucify the band for what Natalie Maines said?

Seriously. If you rednecks weren’t so quick to demand that radio stations blacklist their music and hold all of those flag-waiving protests and block the advertising of their documentary film “Shut Up and Sing” and basically turn them into pariahs all in the name of your lord and savior GWB, then maybe nobody would have cared enough about the trio to nominate them for anything, much less have them win FIVE Grammy awards.

Free speech does have consequences, but so does persecution. You start persecuting people too much and you turn them into victims. You essentially create an even worse offense than the one you object to.