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Henry Rollins,
Your show last night was entertaining. You are an excellent storyteller. You are a very funny man. I enjoyed your candor when you spoke of your personal encounters with the likes of Dee Dee Ramone, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, Frank Black and others. This was interesting. This made your show worthwhile to me. I appreciate you sharing snippets of your life with me from your perspective. From parties to movie auditions to tour stories to daily encounters; you are an entertainer. What you are not though, is a spokesman for me or anyone else. You are a spokesman for your own maniacally egotistical existence. I can respect that. You have not gotten to where you are by being passive or not standing up, but please, do not try to recruit me. Do not cry "Kill Whitey" when that is exactly what you and I both are. In fact the whole auditorium was as white as Wonderbread yet you laud us as "not us, none of us are the whitey I am talking about." Please. Don't talk of musicians who sign contracts with RCA as being fucked or selling out when you sold your soul to MTV and movie studios and you work within the system you admonish. If you are so passionate about doing away with the death penalty and are so thorough as to quote statistics on the matter, please give us an alternative. Don't just say "America can't be number one if we kill" and leave it at that. You owe it to your paying audience to make the decision whether we agree or disagree. In order for us to respond intelligently you MUST give us your alternative. You gave us nothing. Why make the statement if you offer no way to fix the problem?
Your stories are wonderful. Your delivery is wonderful. Your politics are not. Please, in the words of David Cross, "Don't shit in my mouth and call it a sundae." You are an entertainer. You are historically significant. I had never seen you live before and I enjoyed the show. But I did not before and I do not after believe you are the man you think you are.
Keep stirring it up Henry. The world needs more people like you in it.
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