I only know one song that the Dixie Chicks sing and I don’t like it that much: Landslide. As a matter of fact, when it plays on the radio I switch stations. However, that is my choice. “I” don’t like the song so “I” decide to listen to another station. I would not want for the radio station to make that choice for me and at this moment I am glad I don’t live in Texas.

So the Dixie Chicks stated “an opinion,” in a concert in London, that they were ashamed that our president was from Texas. After that comment from the female group, many radio stations in the Lone Star state decided not to play any more of the Dixie Chicks’ music! It seems that in Texas you are not allowed to be anti-Bush.

The irony seems to escape these people! How is banning a group’s music because you are offended by their comment, in a country that is supposed to encourage free speech, different than, say, a dictator saying no one is allowed to oppose his way of thinking? Dissent being unpatriotic is exactly what Hussein is all about and the reason we are there! That comment against Saddam would have resulted in death. In Texas? When did Texas become its own country and abolish the First Amendment?

I have a couple of friends that are Bush fans. I am not one and I opposed this country attacking Iraq. With one of them I know not to talk politics, with the other we have great talks and yet we never get riled up or feel offended. However, I seriously doubt that my friendship with these people depends on how many anti-Bush comments I can chalk up or keep to myself.

Had the radio stations not played the Dixie Chicks music from the beginning would have been “free speech” but to ban the music for a political comment made is not. This is my blog and this is my opinion!

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
~Theodore Roosevelt