This new "music" makes your whole house shake. Boom Boom Boom. IMO it's shit. But still no reason to get pulled over or go to jail over words in a song. You're sitting in your home then all of a sudden this horrible noise comes from nowhere. Your windows are vibrating and you can't get this thumping noise out of your house or head. I don't mind so much if they keep on driving, but it's the idiots who need to park and share their shit taste with the rest of us. Those assholes should get ticketed for disturbing the peace.

Seriously, it sure doesn't appear so.

I know that's not the point of any of this, just saying.

That it's 26 years old and means exactly the same thing today, as it did on the day of its release, is likely where the problem lies.
I.E., not a damned thing has changed in a quarter century.

They were wrong then, just as you are today.

Young people deck out their cars with high wattage speakers. If they want to use them at the beach or in the forest, fine. But why on the roadways?

When I get followed through town by someone playing any kind of bone rattling music and the music makes my car vibrate, something is wrong.

A person inside a car where the music is being played cannot even hear an emergency vehicle with its sirens.

It is a danger to those near that car, and to those inside the car.

We used to have standards about car safety - no heavily tinted windows etc.

But now the state does not want to thwart any profits of corporations selling any car paraphenalia.

We also lose far too many people to accidents caused by texting and cell phoning while driving. There is the technology to shut off devices unless the car is gong under five miles an hour, but the people in charge won't mandate that.

The texting and driving is as bad if not worse than DUI, but not at all relevant to your too loud arguement.

This is a clear version of get off my lawn. I never did that, you shouldn't either.

The land of the free, unless someone does something I don't like.

Something is wrong.

I am not talking about people playing loud music over conventional car stereos. I am talking about the kind of speakers that line the back of a pickup truck, and must make it impossible for people inside inner city areas to ever get a full night's sleep.

Europeans insist on far better standards of noise pollution.

And I don't think deaf people should not be able to drive. But unless we inhibit all these loud speakers playing, we all might be going deaf sooner than later.

Therefore we should eliminate it through laws.

The fact is almost anywhere you go in this country there is likely a law against excessive noise. Whether that noise comes from a stereo, or a snow blower, or a car with bad exhaust, there is likely a law against excess already in place. Those laws go largely unenforced. However, people do get charged with noise violations all the time. Almost every time they get charged it's because of a neighbor that just decides to bitch, because their world isn't perfect.

I don't like it, therefore it needs to stop.

There are millions of people who think the LGBT community is icky, therefore it needs to stop.

Feel free to to replace LGBT with just about anything.

It's icky, tacky, or annoying and I don't like it.

So we come to the slippery slope idea. That idea does exist. For centuries we've oppressed people for any number of reasons, especially based on gender, sexual preference, color etc etc etc

I doubt you have roving bands of loud stereo gangs following you around town every time you drive. I doubt they park in front of your house for hours on end rattling your window.

If either of those things ever happen to you, just buzz the local police force. I guarantee they will come put a stop to it.

Otherwise, if you're like anyone else in the country, you might run into someone with a loud ass stereo for a few minutes. They're probably having a great time listening to a favorite jam.

Get the fuck over it. Then go do something YOU love to do that annoys the shit out of someone else.

Hopefully others don't think your well liked activity or passion is so annoying they want it stopped.

But the cops words indicate he pulled the guy over because of the lyrics, and that's incredibly disturbing. I do need to read up on that state Supreme Court decision when I have some time, sounds ludicrous from the short description here

Well worth the quick read.

A reminder of what it is too damn many seem to have forgotten and a important warning to all of us. The time is getting short to turn this shit around.

As Chris Rock said...

If the cop pulled him over for something that is not illegal, then the Supreme Court case he claims exists protects him. The government still has to prove a case against him and the courts are functioning. Authoritarianism is where the cops can't be challenged. Here they can, in the courts. What is the point of all this exaggeration? We can object to cops killing people or making errors of all kinds in our system. We don't have to prove it is "authoritarian" first.

Good article. I will look for that book.

...into discussing post-war Nazi Germany.

"The book details Mayer's journey to Germany, just seven years after Hitler's demise.

While in Germany, Mayer got to know, and even became friends with, 10 average German Nazis."

I took this to mean that Mayer got to know ten Germans in the 1950s who either had been members of the NDSAP during the war or who still believed in the Nazi platform. By talking to those [former] Nazis, Mayer got to understand how Germany had allowed the NDSAP to take control of the country leading up to WWII.