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After the 11/11/02 news story where they alleged Marilyn Manson is a "Satan worshipping Nazis", The British Conservative Catholics have struck again slamming Straight Edge "heroes" (according to Metal Hammer at any rate) Minor Threat as being "Nazi Communists".
"After weeks of undercover investigations I can exclusively reveal to you that the straight edge heavy metal band, Minor Threat, were in fact a group of dangerous subversives who hoped to seize power and install a nazi-communist dictatorship," states the BCC's leader Tobias Depson on their website (http://free.freespeech.org/shockingtruth/sxe.html).
"Basing their philosophy on the teachings of Mao Tse Tung and Adolf Hitler, the band devised their own agenda which was to abolish religion and alcohol. The members of the band also failed to live up to the high personal standards they advocated, as it is now widely known that some of the band were marijuana addicts."
"Ian MacKaye formed Minor Threat to seize power and install a nazi-communist dictatorship. And also to fund his marijuana habit. Once in power, his straight edge government would have abolished contraceptives and drugs, which could only have been a good thing, but would have also outlawed religion and church wine. The detestable practice of skateboarding would have been compulsory for all teenagers and we would have been forced to have skinhead haircuts. In this respect, their philosophy was similar to that of Adolf Hiter and Chairman Mao of China, as they wanted everybody to be the same, but they would have eliminated any "undesirables". Probably."
By using the word "probably" anyone who might have taken this seriously should really have realsied that someone at the BCC is having a boring week and making up hersay to fill the time, compulsory skateboarding! Good grief! I suspect that this lot are smoking something pretty strong to supply them with these arguements.
"Thankfully this did not happen as Ian MacKaye's credibility was destroyed when it was discovered that he was injecting the lethal drug, marijuana. The straight edge movement is being kept alive by a group of foolish fanatics, but is too unfashionable for most teenagers, so hopefully it will die out soon."
Given the rise in its popularity among certain US High Schools where the school authorities advocate straight edge practises I think they might be pinning their colours on the wrong flagpole.
"The straight edge movement was founded in 1980 by Ian MacKaye. Their emblem was a swastika with the end bits removed from the cross. This was to symbolise that they were nazis, yet also communists as the 'X' also represents the hammer and sickle, which adorns the sinister red flags of communist nations, but without the metal bits. So it stands for two handles."
This is like the article in the weekends 'Guardian' that said that Death in June were neo-Nazis and if you look at the album cover that has 4 dogs heads at right-angles with "half-closed eyes" then it looks like a swastika, personally I think they completely closed their eyes in order to see that, I can't see it.
"Minor Threat advocated a lifestyle that meant abstinence from sex and drugs, which is to be commended, but also asked their members to refrain from drinking and pipe smoking. This meant that they would refuse communion in a church. Jesus' miracle at the wedding (see John 2: 1-11) was a sign that God likes people to have a drink, so the teachings of the straight edge movement run contrary to ALL Christian philosophy."
God liking people to drink wine would explain a lot about certain elements of the church.... I still think the Giant Spider in 'South Park' is genius. I wrote to the BCC to enquire as to their sources but as of yet have no reply.... I am not holding my breath. To conclude their farfetched, although mildly amusing, rant, The British Conservative Catholics state:
"This story illustrates once more just how evil rock music is. I implore any parents reading this site to go through your children's CD collection and to publicly burn any offensive material."
I thought burning music, art or books went out of style with the Nazis, it is nice to see the old traditions being maintained... I wonder if the BCC see the irony of comdeming people for being Nazis and then advocating people commit similar acts to them?
