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To This Day, We Get Letters At Alternative Tentacles From Young Teenagers Who Hide Their Dead Kennedys Albums Behind Their Mirror Or In The Mattress Of Their Bed. Wouldn't It Be Better If The Parents Just Discussed This With The Kids Instead Of Creating This Culture Of Sneaking And Dishonesty Within The Family? The Moral Of The Story Being, You Don't Hide Reality From Your Kids Because Then They Grow Up To Be Smarter, More Aware Adults.

I Think One Of The Most Important Things Punk Brought Back Was The Whole Concept Of Staying Independent And Doing Things Yourself. It Made Music A Lot Less Boring In Any Category You Can Name.

Punk Was Originally About Creating New, Important, Energetic Music That Would Hopefully Threaten The Status Quo And The Stupidity Of The 1970s.

As A Human Being With Notoriety And A Big Mouth, I've Felt Most Threatened During The First Bush Administration. Whenever There's A Bush In The White House, Many People Die, And The Rest Of Us Are Threatened. I Just Didn't Think It Would Happen Quite So Quickly. The So-called Usa Patriot Act, And The Announcement Of Trying People In Military Tribunals If Bush Or Rumsfeld's Or Ashcroft's People Think They Somehow Qualify As Terrorists, Basically, This Is Mccarthyism Run Amok.

Any Alternative Culture That Inspires A Lot Of Passion And Inspiration Is Also In Danger Of Being Set In Its Ways, Almost From The Moment It's Born.