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Keeping America safe from artists and musicians

by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News      October 21, 2007

 
Personally speaking, I am glad that DHS and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are doing their part to keep skanky folk artists out of America.

Keeping America Safe means guarding not just our lives and property, to say nothing of our precious bodily fluids, but keeping our minds safe from dirty, impure thoughts and Not-American cultures. We have enough dirty hippie chicks strumming acoustic guitars already, we don't need to import them!

Our wonderful civil servants are protecting us from spiritual debasement -- and just plain bad music.

Yep. We Americans already have PBS on our teevees,
 
and anyone who wants to study non-American art in the privacy of their own homes can do so -- though most God-fearing Americans would rather be hit in the head with a hammer than watch PBS.

These foreigners are likely not just dirty, badly dressed sexual deviants who don't know their instruments, they are probably terrorists, or have close ties to terror suspects, or are related to people who are known to have ties to terror suspects or people associated with networks of suspicious persons who know actual terrorists.

Consider the logic: Isn't it easier to train terrorists to strum guitars and sing and dance than to turn real
 
Strict visa regulations
discourage visiting artists


Excerpt:  Sometimes I wonder if they are the best judge of who is a real artist," said Richard Kennedy, acting director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, sponsor of the annual Folklife Festival on the Mall. Some festival participants have been asked to perform at their consular appointments, he said, even though most come into the country on tourist visas because they are not professional and earn no fees.
artists into suicide murderers and guerrilla soldiers? Of course. And that explains why most foreign artists and musicians are so bad -- they often cannot even charge admission at their performances! Their art is just a cover for their real objective: to destroy America, either with bombs or by destroying our culture and the American Way.

According to the Washington Post:
Isabel Soffer, programming director at New York's World Music Institute, says she brings over fewer foreign artists now because of increasing problems such as those encountered by two clients this month. The women, minstrel singers from a remote region of Uzbekistan who are featured on the Smithsonian Folkways CD "Bardic Divas," were to be part of a U.S. tour called "Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia." But for reasons that are unclear, they were denied visas on the spot during a brief questioning at the U.S. consulate in Tashkent. "It took a matter of minutes," Soffer said. (Several e-mails and calls to the consulate were not returned.)
See that? A few minutes listening is all it takes to weed out the terrorists pretending to be "folk musicians". And even if they are NOT terrorists, why would Americans be interested in Uzbekistan spirituality? We've get all we need of that from Sunday Services -- with Pastor Robertson and Dr. Dobson on TV and radio for shut-ins!

Thank God from the government censors. This country would be in real trouble if our overseers were not so vigilant about protecting us from non-American thoughts and values. Cultural terrorists are not welcome in my town!

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