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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Aloha !
He only started to keep his thoughts for himself when he got a crowd booing in America whenever he brought it up. Anyone remember the speech before The Distance about America not supposed to be involved in this war, and the protest song Eve Of Destruction during the Bounce Tour?
It was only after the crowd started to boo whenever he made his point during the shows that he stopped mentioning it, and just said "this is for the men Afghanistan", without saying what he felt and thought of it. If that crowd would not have booed but would have cheered, we'd still hear Jon mentioning it, because the man is all about getting an applause.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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They played eve of destruction the day after the worldwide protests against the impending war on iraq. the news was wall to wall with millions of people marching in the streets oppossed to that war. he didnt really say an awful lot except that the administration scared the shit out of him and that he was moved by the amount of people that didnt want to see others die. i couldnt really hear any boo's on that bootleg, he did also say he was reluctant to talk about politics from the stage.
when the band toured europe he could have mentioned it every night and would have been guaranteed applause if thats all he wanted.