Tom Tancredo: “The First Amendment restricts government's abridgement of free speech. But government hasn't threatened to muzzle…”

“The First Amendment restricts government's abridgement of free speech. But government hasn't threatened to muzzle Manson. He will not be barred from performing by any government officials. The opposition to his performance here has come from private groups led by Baptist youth minister Jason Janz, and others, employing moral persuasion, as is their right, to discourage and disparage Manson's act. I'm no fan of Manson, or, for that matter, his inspirational namesake Charles Manson. I don't like his music, his lyrics or his message. I've heard and read enough of it, dutifully, to get the point. This from his newest CD 'Antichrist Superstar:' I will bury God in my warm spit. I went to God just to see. And I was looking at me. When I'm God everyone dies. I find Manson neither thought-provoking nor profound. He offers mostly sophomoric dribble... To be sure, there's demand for Manson's kind of bilge from troubled, confused, angry, defiant, depressed, macabre, antisocial and sociopathic adolescent and arrested-adolescent audiences.”