Spanish 'Star-Spangled Banner' remix adds lines condemning U.S. laws

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Sorry, folks...I call "bullshit" again on this one. My opinion, and as always, I'm not seeking agreement or approval.

:rant:

The initial version of "Nuestro Himno," or "Our Anthem," comes out Friday and uses lyrics based closely on the English-language original, said Kidron, who heads the record label Urban Box Office.

A remix to be released in June will contain several lines in English that condemn U.S. immigration laws. Among them: "These kids have no parents, cause all of these mean laws ... let's not start a war with all these hard workers, they can't help where they were born."

Bryanna Bevens of Hanford, Calif., who writes for the immigration-focused Web magazine Vdare.com, said the remix particularly upset her.

"It's very whiny. If you want to say all those things, by all means, put them on your poster board, but don't put them on the national anthem," she said.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060427165909990029&ncid=NWS00010000000001

[MisterP]

1. Vdare?

[xultar]

2. Personally I don't care. Many Murkians don't even know the SSB.

Further if this is the land of the free why are people gettin beat to death for kissin' white girls both Black and Mexican.

So I could give a phuckin shit. America does have unfair laws they prosecute the weak, poor and minority while big fat white cats get their kids off on serious crimes.

They should be happy that anyone is even willing to sing the SSB these days with how Murka is seen around the world and the shit we are doing.

If a big ole no teeth bubba can have his woman wear an american flag thong then I don't care how people sing it.

[tocqueville]

3. Krikorian is wrong

''Would the French accept people singing the La Marseillaise in English as a sign of French patriotism? Of course not.'' -- Mark Krikorian, head of the Center for Immigration Studies

Unofficial versions

Yannick Noah, "Oh Reve"
Django Reinhardt, "Echoes Of France"
The Beatles, as part of "All You Need Is Love"
In 1978, Serge Gainsbourg recorded a reggae version, "Aux Armes et cetera," with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar and Rita Marley in the choir in Jamaica, which resulted in him getting death threats from right-wing veterans of the Algerian War of Independence.

(true but Gainsbourg was considered as a "hero" by the majority of the FRench specially after that incident).

Allan Sherman, "You went the Wrong way Old King Louie"
The Brisbane Lions Australian rules football (AFL) team theme song "The Pride of Brisbane Town".
The carillon of the town hall in the Bavarian town of Cham plays the Marsaillaise every day at 12.05 p.m. to commemorate the French Marshall Nicolas Luckner, who was born there<3>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseillaise

this Krikorian quote shows how little a "head of the Center for Immigration Studies" knows about some foreign countries

the French would be very very touched if someone sung the Marseillaise in English to express support for France.