Does anyone remember the quote....

DirtyGinNY

from one of the re-election years pertaining to freedom of speech and being smart enough to use it....or something like that???

Aero83_

something about an undesirable consequence if you are smart enough to use it?

Aero83_

Aero83_ wrote:

something about an undesirable consequence if you are smart enough to use it?

haha, sounds scary.....yeah, I have no idea. Maybe someone else can get you the information you're looking for?!?

Newch91

Was this it? This is from Five Horizons:

http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/t2003p2.shtml

04/03/03 - Ford Center: Oklahoma City, OK
support act: Sleater-Kinney
set: Long Road, Grievance, Jools and Jim (Pete Townshend), Corduroy, Save You, Given To Fly, Dissident, Even Flow, I Am Mine, Love Boat Captain, 1/2 Full, Not For You, Off He Goes, Elderly Woman, Untitled/MFC, Happy Birthday, Drifting, Get Right, Deep!, Blood
enc 1: Better Man, Daughter/(War), Do The Evolution, Rearviewmirror
enc 2: Alive, Yellow Ledbetter
notes: The ending of the Pete Townshend song 'Jools and Jim' (from the Empty Glass glass album, where Pete sings "Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, O-K") is played before 'Corduroy.' After 'Save You,' Ed speaks:

"Glad you could all be with us tonight. There's a lot of "fucks" in that last song. And it's fucking great to be here. And "fuck" is a great fucking word. And it seems like ten years ago, freedom of speech, it all had to do with whether you could say "fuck" or not. Cuz it is, it's a word that's worth fighting for, ya know, ya say fuck him, fuck her, fuck me, fuck! Then great ways to say it: "That's fuckin' beautiful." Fuck. I personally can't say I ever said it this way, but I'm sure you could say, "Let's fuck." But now freedom of speech it has, uh, it has a lot to do with much bigger issues. And uh, somehow, we played a show last night and it's been misconstrued. They said, uh, 24 people left because they were upset at a, uh, anti-Bush administration remark. [crowd boos] You're booing the story, right, not me? Let's clarify that. You know you could have written that story differently and you could have said 11,972 people cheered and applauded at what the singer said ... we pledged our support and love to the troops. Ya know, how could we not be for the military? Look at this fuckin' haircut. [cheers] So, uh, no matter what it is, no matter how you feel, I think it's important for people to be able to protest, say what they feel, and put public pressure, put pressure on politicians and government just so that they will do a better job. There's nothing anti-patriotic about that. Because their job affects our families, our safety, our security, our relatives who are in the military, our friends, it affects everyone, so we have a right to be a voice and be part of that, I would think, as part of a democracy. That's all we wanted to say, this is 'Given to Fly'."

ZiggyStar

HA! That's funny he's talking about freedom of speech and I got a warning on his message board for saying the new song is shit. :roll:

jamingjamers

i got warned for sayiing backspacer wasnt that good
freedom of speech ha ha ha

DirtyGinNY

Thanks for the detective work...but thats not it. It was a quick saying, I think I ssaw it on a back of a tour shirt. Driving me nuts

masspearljamfan

"You have the right to free speech,as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it".

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/p ... cial-event

MANKIND

ZiggyStar wrote:

HA! That's funny he's talking about freedom of speech and I got a warning on his message board for saying the new song is shit. :roll:

thats funny becuase you bitched me our for saying retarded. freedom of speech right

aneutronbomb

masspearljamfan wrote:

"You have the right to free speech,as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it".

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/p ... cial-event

and of course as we all know this quote comes from the clash's know your rights which we all love to hear the boys cover (saw one in irvine 03)