I find it extremely disturbing that Ted Nugent not only admitted it, but also bragged about his attraction to underage girls and having sex with girls as young as 12 years of age. I would certainly hope that his behavior is not exactly the image you or your town wants to convey to not only it's citizens but to the rest of the United States. Is this some kind of message on how boys and young men should act towards girls or how girls should just "take it and deal with it" if some one wants to molest them? Seriously, you really are not setting any standards by allowing him to perform at your event. Is this part of the "family values" or so called "Christian moral high ground" that your town needs? If you insist on having Ted Nugent as one of your acts, then you and your town will have to bear the tarnished mark of all that he is and stands for. So, I do hope you are proud of this. Other places have taken a stand against it, but I guess by not also taking that stand, it sure says a lot about Texas and Texans who do not deserve to be tarnished by this.
Let me remind you again what he has to say.
-About the Vietnam War "...if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed all the hippies in the foxholes...I would have killed everybody."
-"If Barack Obama is elected, I'll either be dead or in jail this time next year.”
-"What's a feminist anyways? A fat pig who doesn't get it often enough?"
-"If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail."
-"Foreigners are assholes; foreigners are scum; I don't like 'em; I don't want 'em in this country; I don't want 'em selling me doughnuts; I don't want 'em pumping my gas; I don't want 'em downwind of my life -- OK? So anyhow, and I'm dead serious...."
-"Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal."
-He called deceased Florida teenager Travyon Martin a "Dope Smoking, Racist Gangsta Wannabe."
-"Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted."
-African-American rappers appearing on MTV Are "Big Uneducated Greasy Black Mongrels."
-On suspected undocumented immigrants: "I'd Like To Shoot Them Dead."
-“Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.”
-Nugent sometimes talks and sings about women as if they were sexual toys. His conversations are peppered with the word "nigger."
-He called his tour of Japan the "Jap Whack Tour." "I mean no disrespect. I'm sure the Japanese are wonderful folks...And if I'm with a bunch of guys, we may talk about babes in a certain way...I use the word nigger a lot because I hang around with a lot of niggers, and they use the word nigger, and I tend to use words that communicate...I don't mean to offend. I'm a fun guy, not a sexist or racist."
- About Hillary Clinton "You probably can't use the term `toxic cunt' in your magazine, but that's what she is. Her very existence insults the spirit of individualism in this country. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro."
Here are some things that I really think you need to read and pay attention to if you are going to insist on having him at your even.
Shannon Reynolds, MCJ, US Army
