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.