Sikh Temple Massacre Casts Light on White-Power Rock: Censor Hate Music?

We don't ban things. Whether we like it or not, even scumbags like this have the right to express their opinions. First amendment. If we start banning things like this, who's to say where the banning will stop? Censorship is something authoritarian places like China do.

Freedom of Speech, but these neo-nazis are fools.

It's actually a funny question if you think about it. What makes hate music hate music? Does it have to be racial hate or is any type of hate included? Half of the music out there today is full of hate but the only music being looked at is music that puts down non-whites? There's songs about men hating women, women hating men, blacks hating certain whites, blacks hating other blacks, and then whites hating non-whites is the only one that gets attention? If you want to end or censor "hate" music you'll have to censor a lot more than just some idiots who have no accomplishments in life to be proud of and so they have to pretend that the color of their skin makes up for their stupidity and makes them better than others. But, this country was founded on certain freedoms, one of which is free speech and to censor hate music would be a violation of that right. So no, the government should not waste their time and our money trying to do the impossible and should also stop giving these attention craving idiots attention and go back to taking care of the important things in this country, like the massive deficit.

It just opens the floodgates for legitimate forms of music to be censored as well.

Censorship is stupid. the problem is people. Not music, not guns, not propane tanks.
We live in the US not the Peoples Republic of China. One person's music becomes offense. Frankly, listening to Hip Hop is about the last thing I'd have on the radio. Some people "hate" Country Music, I like it.

Music IS not behavior, a person's actions are the problem.

"Guns don't kill people. Music Does"

this kind of stuff we could do wthout this is why we have so much violence

ohhhhh 'hate music' is the reason there's violence, thanks for clearing that up. i was going to suggest banning war novels or horror movies, but yeah, let's start with hate music first. who knows what we could ban next!

some hate music that isn't racist

awesome band

NO*

This is not music that is on any radio stations as it is. This is America. We do NOT CENSOR. Freedom of speech.

Hell look at rap lyrics if you want to see hate and mysogeny out in the open and it IS played on radio. If we do not censor that (for content, not language) then we do not censor any other form of music either.

Censorship? Yeah and while we're at it let's throw out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Defend the Constitution!!! Repeal the Patriot Act !!!

Free speech is free speech.

It falls under freedom of speech and allows us to identify idiots!! :-)

As much as I don not agree with the ideologies they have, free speech is free speech. Regardless of what Miss Mayo claims, the music is not what brought these people together. Yes it may have "helped" , but hate groups have been finding people since the beginning of hate groups just by groups.

Freedom of Speech is one of our greatest freedoms granted to us in America it should be protected,

I would not want to censor music of the right wing concervative nut cases

I think censoring anything doesn't solve the problem, it just sweeps it under the rug.

Free speech means "freedom of all speech," especially the impolite things. Polite speech needs no protection. The minute we start censoring one message, we can make the argument to censor any message.

This is not a defense of hate speech... I'm sick of hate in all of its forms and it makes me mourn for America... but make no mistake... free speech and expression is America's most sacred right and if we marginalize one group, we marginalize them all.

Where would all those people in the rap industry go for money and food?

Oh yeah, I forgot, dealing drugs, robbery, and welfare.

People who want to censor music, movies, video games, books, art, etc. have it backwards. They think the media causes the problem, when in reality it's the problem that causes the media to be produced and purchased. Censorship is like mopping up a flooded bathroom floor while ignoring that the faucet is still running. This guy obviously was a nutcase BEFORE he started his stupid white-power band, and anybody who was a fan of his band was probably a nutcase to begin with too or they would not take an interest in this obscure type of music. There are probably a few cases where the music or media influenced a person to commit a crime, but this is the exception rather than the rule, and we cannot use it as an excuse to limit free speech.

Just don't buy the garbage.

While I don't agree with that kind of music, or that kind of thinking, government restrictions and censorship is not going to make it go away, in fact, it will, probably, make it more popular. Not to mention, that will violate the artists' rights of free speech and the listeners' rights to hear it.

There are a lot of things that should be censored

Who decides what is and what isn't censored? Moreover, by what flawed human standard do we judge?

Common sense,something a lot of you people lack Dau!

But we would censor YOU.

Actually that is a liberal thing, we fight for your right to say what you want to say. Dont you understand that? Freedom of speech is important.

You may say you want to censor someone else, but remember that it is a slippery slope and will wind up BADLY.

Yes,freedom of speech is important,but that does not give you the right to abuse it,again common sense,a panel of people of all different beliefs,and having "common" sense,something a lot of people lack.

All your statement tells me is that you do not understand freedom of speech. Or possibly freedom at all.

Not if it infringes on other peoples rights Dau,thats not what Freedom Means,and never has!

Keep calling names sugar. Shows YOUR level of intelligence, not mine.

Your rights end where mine begin.

Its called Freedom of speech,Dau!

Well that is true and you recognized that....see? I KNEW you would catch on sooner or later...

Your not funny,and free speech doesn't mean saying anything without consequences.

Correct again!! Ask the Greek girl from the olympics right?

But speech itself is free.

And you greiveously wound me...lol... I AM very funny!!

So that means YOU get to decide because you have common sense? What if I disagree? Neither you, nor I, nor anyone else is the keeper of all knowledge.

Knowledge is not common sense,you would know this if you had any.

Absolutely not. No matter how hateful and abhorrent white-power music is, it is still free speech. No TRULY patriotic American should ever advocate censorship.

BS Dau!