After Bjork repeatedly yelled, "Tibet!" during a concert in Shanghai last week, Chinese officials decided to "tighten its controls over foreign singers and other performers." Yelling "Tibet" broke a law, and so the Chinese people can no longer have nice things such as concerts. [Reuters]
Same thing happened to me when I yelled "Just plain coffee!" in a Starbucks.
I liked Bjork until she did Dancer in Dark, by the end of which I was rethinking my views on capital punishment. Now I see her real purpose in the world, and I wholeheartedly support her focusing all that talent to annoy toward totalitarian regimes. When does she play Darfur?
@DonPardoCalrissian: Yeah but she dragged her promoter and label into it, knowing she faced no personal risk as a European celebrity. Besides, she didn't do anything besides mention Tibet- maybe if she was like 'riot in Tiannamen Sq. 8 o'clock - she might have achieved something, instead all she did was endanger the lives of any Chinese associated with her.
