http://www.clubdevo.com/mp_redesign/tellus.html#81204posted 8/8/2004:
Subject: Just Wondering
Q: Hi -- I'm a Devo fan from way back and I was really enjoying the NY show on HD Net just now. However, I am also a Republican and I am wondering why there had to be negative jabs against Republicans. In fact, I don't understand why there has to be any political commentary at all.
Now don't freak out -- I am not an evil right winger denying you your right to free speech. But I guess when I tune in to see you playing music at a concert -- that's what I am expecting: you playing music at a concert. I just don't really care what your political views are -- no matter what they are. I mean I was just tuning in to see the concert and hear the music. Isn't that why all those people were there for, too?
Sincerely,
{i'll leave her name and email address out of this}
A: It's amazing you can like a band that stands for justice and liberty and science and logic and still vote for an evil regime that wants to destroy what's left of democracy, destroy the separation of church and state, attack the bill of rights, eliminate a woman's right to choose, deny humane scientific research, steal from seniors, destroy the environment to keep oil cronies rich and in short institute a form of Christian fundamentalism that is only slightly less heinous than the authoritarian beliefs of the Taliban. Go ahead and vote for a dim-witted, mean spirited, menial son of a CIA man who is on the wrong side of every issue that matters to the future of humans on the planet earth. This isn't about democrats and republicans (there's really no difference there). This is about the end of humane values in our life time. Do you wear a backwards baseball cap and drive a Hummer 2? Remember! Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want! -- Gerald V. Casale , Devo Inc.
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and from some weird CNN Interview thing
http://www.clubdevo.com/mp_redesign/news_pgs/cnn_thebiz.htmlHAFFENREFFER: WE talk about deevolution as you look at society, and maybe even the world today. Does it apply perhaps more today than any other time?
CASALE: Absolutely. I mean, all kidding aside, it`s become hideously real. Like what we talked about almost as a kind of philosophy with humor has become true. Deevolution is real. I think everybody watching today would agree that they can`t even believe the world they live in now.
HAFFENREFFER: What`s the driving force behind it?
CASALE: Fear and manipulation of fear. Mark and I met at Kent State in 1970, right after the students were killed. I thought maybe that was the worst thing I would see in my lifetime. And it changed me forever. And I was within 50 yards proximity of Allison Krause, who was one of the four murdered. And it was murder, by the way. And now I`ve lived to see the end of democracy in our time. That`s unbelievable.
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