BRITISH rocker Peter Doherty was hauled,
 

off stage at a weekend music festival in Germany after he began singing the Nazi anthem Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles during his set, reports say.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1225805551087

On the list of smart things to do, I don't think this would rank very high.

Well he sure made a statement.....that he was a jerk. :nope:

Serious question, who is Pete Doherty? Has he released anything in the US? I know that I am not "hip" to the latest in music, but I have never heard of him. After reading this article, perhaps I am the better off for it.

Yes agree
 

here is a link..

http://www.petedoherty.com/

Wow, one of them got to #10 in the US. Good for him. I don't recognize any of the songs though (not that I am especially an authority on this sort of stuff)

He's a prat anyway, hopefully he'll get jail time. :yep:

Well, he was removed by the organizers.

Their event, their rules.
It wasn't a government action so, no Freedom Of Speech issues there.

Drugs are bad mmmkay? ;)

The male version of Amy Whinehouse. What they have in common? Both are carricatures of what they claim they want to be.

This.

Curious minds want to know. What in your mind do these pepole claim to be?

x2 :yep:

Hmmm. I didn't know there were Nazis in 1797, when the song was written. Or in 1841, when the words were written.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied

And while they currently only use the third stanza, it is still Germany's National Anthem.

That is not correct sailor, It was decided after the war, and then confirmed again after reunification, that only the third stanza is the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany. Do not get misled that it is called the "Deutschlandlied", or that earlier German nations before the Federal Republic used the text in full as their anthems.

The other two stanzas can only be understood in their content when comparing them to the background and it's historic contexts of the time in which the text was written (long before the Nazis) - else they give right the impression that the Nazis made so terrible abuse of. Thye sang it and used to let it follow immediately by the Horst Wessel Lied.

Again, the Deutschlandlied is not the national anthem of Germany. The third stanza is the official national anthem, and only that - not more. The other stanzas not only are not part of the anthem of the Federal Republic, but are a taboo.

I am not putting to much attention on symbols, so I for myself let you live :), but keep in mind that possibly you can really piss a German when singing the full song to him and telling him that it would be his national anthem. For many Germans that is as offending as if you were telling them what a great Führer the Führer has been (happened to me many times in the ME :-? ).

The other stanzas are quite nationalistic and supremacistic, they are no loss nowadays, since their hinstoric context does not exist anymore anyway. The text of the third stanza that we now use, actually is one of the niciest national anthems I have ever heared. Many others have too much blood-dripping violence and pathos, for my taste. So I think Germany has chosen well. during the Football world championship, I used to switch on subtitles during the anthems, where they translated the texts of the anthems played. Sometimes they left me speechless.

I could have sworn someone mentioned nationalism and supremacy in a positive fashion. It had something to do with blacks and muslims making soccer teams rubbish and sportsmen not singing their national anthems with enough national gusto.

Not as speechless as the Spanish anthem:woot:

Sooner that oik is locked up, the better.