Of freedom losses? Here we go(?):
RAGE OVER RAGE
The messageboard on the official RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE website has been closed "in light of repeated phone calls...received from the Secret Service" with regard to "inflammatory posts" on the system following the terrorist strikes in the US earlier this week.
Like many band websites, the official RATM website, at www.ratm.com, contains a messageboard for fans to host discussions.
However, according to a posting on the website, the company that hosts the messageborad "will no longer donate their services to keep this message board running in light of repeated phone calls they have received from the Secret Service with regards to inflammatory posts on several of the forums".
The posting continues: "We are endeavouring to correct the situation and get your free exchange of information and ideas up and running as soon as possible."
A UK spokesperson for the group was unavailable to comment on the situation today (September 14).
In related news, Rage guitarist Tom Morello has issued a statement about Tuesday's (September 11) events.
He wrote: "Our deepest sympathy and condolences go out to all the people and their families affected by the attacks on Tuesday. The loss of innocent life is just terrible, and our thoughts go out to all of you who personally may have had friends or family killed or injured in the tragedy. The pain felt across the country demonstrates the lesson of Tuesday's events: that the taking of innocent life is devastating to a society and terribly wrong.
"On Tuesday, the victims were American. But the horrible scenes that we've witnessed on TV this week are regular occurrences in other places around the globe. And too often, violence like this has been meted out by our own country and its client states. We should stand together against this type of violence in all its forms, whenever it happens, whether its done in the name of religious fanaticism, or in the names of our own domestic elite.
"Our best wishes go out to all of you. Take care of yourselves, and each other."
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