[LucyT]

The duo believes the music industry hasn't given this situation the outcry it deserves. "If it would have happened to anybody else the whole industry would have been up in arms [talking about] freedom of speech,"

[snip]

To coincide with their lawsuit, ICP have launched the website Juggalos Fight Back ("A place for 'los and 'lettes to be heard"), where Juggalos who feel like they've been discrminated for their affiliation with the band can fill out a legal action questionnaire to have their incident reviewed by the band's legal team.

[LucyT]

The ICP, which has been performing since 1989, has fans that are called “Juggalos”. The FBI has decided that the band and their fans constitute a “gang”.

This matters, because not only the FBI, but the Justice Department and now the Pentagon, have taken to arbitrarily designating conservative organizations like the Tea Party and the Border Minutemen in the same category as violent criminal and terrorist organizations.

In truth, while the ICP and their fans wear clown makeup, and perform and listen to rap music, other than being a rather pathetic bunch, to be called a “gang”, with all that implies, by a powerful government police organization, is very serious indeed.

And if they prevail in their lawsuit, the next lawsuit should be by conservative organizations who have been labled in this way, and suffered because of it.

[a fool in paradise]

Between the drug running, drug abuse, and interstate rampages of murder, why would anyone associate ICP fans with gang bangers? < /sarc >

[Oratam]

I’m not surprised. Hoover expressed concern over Bobby-Soxers, if I recall correctly.

[RichInOC]

What? They are. At least at the concerts.

[struggle]

[EricT.]

Damn, I thought Insane Clown Posse was a new nickname for LSDNC’s on-air babblers.

[Salman]

I’m thinking it’s a publicity stunt.

[JaguarXKE]

Wow, a band with their faces painted white and black. How original.

[SargeK]

Less of a gang and more of a waste of oxygen.

Go to an ICP concert and despair for the future of mankind. Seeing the loos and lettes in action will tell you why the mooj think we all need to die.

[Prospero]

Get your Clown “on,” ninja.

[mowowie]

I would say more like a large bunch of losers and not a criminal gang.