Robert Dill and his Anti-American Mission
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Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
– John Adams, 1765
Jodi Faltin, a fourteen year old grade nine student was recently suspended from school in Blairsville RD because of her eyebrow ring. Her parents went to the school board and stressed that she was a bright student and that they, as her parents, felt that she should be allowed to wear the ring if she wanted to. The school board didn’t budge, and she remains suspended as long as she wears the eyebrow ring.
As I’m mentioning news items, I’d also like to bring up the popular television show American Idol. In a recent article in the Tri-Valley Herald, the following rule is mentioned:
“Some people waiting to get into the park spent their time reading the rules, which said contestants must be 16 to 24 years old on Aug. 3, 2003, and that anyone with visible tattoos would be kicked out. That sent at least one young woman with ankle ink scurrying to the parking lot to get ‘concealer, socks, pants, whatever …’ from her car.”
Banning of tattoos for musicians? Given that, oh, 99% of pop stars and rock musicians are tattooed, these rules not only seem repressive, but actually bizarre. Clearly having a tattoo does not damage a musical career, and if anything is representative of the type of individual who’s able to excel in that lifestyle — so we must ask ourselves, if the purpose of American Idol is not to choose the best potential pop star, what is its purpose?
Is American Idol just another tool in the hands of the mega-corporations in the creation of consumer slaves that all look and think the same?
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