I wrote an email to the author who claimed goth kids should be
hospitalized. I go this nice little message back from him. Thought maybe
someone would find it interesting reading. I also wouldn't hesitate to mail
some of these people in Texas, and tell them your views, maybe this idiot
can see that not all Manson fans need to be hospitalized or taken in by
children's services.
---icarus
ps. The addys I used included:
info@tccrime.com, fwpd@startext.net, commfwisd@aol.com
dgilkey@riroe.k12.il.us, apd@airmail.net, jimthmpsn@aol.com
apd@airmail.net, ldlgarza@tcjc.cc.tx.us, stedit@star-telegram.com
[angelynx note: check out this guy's terrific spelling and grammar. Great example to kids...)
>X-Real-To:
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:51:27 -0800
>From: Delano Gilkey
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I; 16bit)
>To: mnovak@apk.net
>Subject: [Fwd: Response "Marilyn Manson"]
>To concerned citizens,
>I would like to thank-you for your comments and your concern. But I
also take caution when someone says to me "I heard" because believe it
or not journalist may not always get the story straight. As you are, I
am also very concerned about infringing on the civil liberties of
individuals. Unfortunately, there are certain people and influences
that preach and speak of doing the very same thing that you and I are
concerned about ie. (Marilyn Manson). And believe me he isn't the only
one. I try to make a point of not singling out a particular group, but
particular actions and conduct. When you take a look at the senseless
murders in Paducah, Ky, Pearl Miss. and others, it would be negligent of us not to listen to the voices and the screams when someone yells
"Listen to me! I need help!" and we must also take a look at the many
factors that leads up to these incidences. And the common factor
happens to be Marilyn Manson and or other Death Metal, Black Metal philosophy.
>As far as the locker searches, here is a quote from a recent publication
from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). "In public schools the
standards for searches are much more permissive. The court also
recognized that schools need to maintain security in order to create an
environment in which learning can take place." This concern, the court
ruled, justifies less stringent standards for searches in schools."
>Just as you claim that Mr. Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson) has the right
to say anything that he wants to, then you also have to allow myself to
say anything that I care to say. Personally I don't have that much of a
problem with the music per se, but I do have a problem with the message
behind some of the music. I also don't think that the music alone is
the problem, but when a impressionable youth listens to it over and over
again and introduce drugs into the equation, now you may have just
brewed up disaster.
>Comparing the music of today as now different than the music of the 60's
& 70's is also a bit unrealistic. There use to be a time when people
would be talking about the hidden messages and backwashing in the music,
well nowadays you don't have to play music backwards to try to find out
if there is some hidden evil message, you can play it forward and it's
straight in your face...
>One of the biggest things that places Marilyn Manson in a different
category than the rest is that; most other groups sings there songs and
goes on with their lives. Mr. Manson has an agenda which he admits to
which is to get as many followers to "The Church of Marilyn Manson". He
not only sings his songs but preaches his message, and the majority of
his messages contradicts a lot of what the ACLU advocates...
>Please try to be objective and open minded when it comes to reading
articles (including mine) from a publication, my experience with the
media is that they don't always get the facts straight. As an example,
the reporter of where you most likely recieved this information, I
cannot recall ever interviewing me. I did not indicate that I was
presenting this information with a background "emphases on religion".
I'm just a messenger...You draw the conclusions.
>I do not advocate to take ones "Civil Liberties" lightly. I agree that
a lot of people that are involved in Goth may not be involved in
Satanism, and I also agree that not all people involved in the Occult
and or Satanism are bad, or conduct themselves in criminal behaviors,
but you cannot dismiss the fact (along with other things) it can be a
gateway to those behaviors.
>I talk about Life, Reality and Consequences, with everything else aside,
we all have the right to Life, the Reality is there are certain
individuals that are attempting to destroy the lives of many of our
youth through a message of anti-socialism and their own individual
agenda, the Reality also is if one wants to take on the persona of the
Anti-Christ, Anti-Society, Anti-Family and Anti-Life at the expense of
others, then one must take responsibility for the outcome of their
actions and face up to the Consequences...
>Thank-you for your time.
>Have a nice day.
>Sincerely,
>DeLano Gilkey, Consultant
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