Sheesh. Much ado about nothing. What's next harassing shoppers at Publix?

"Wah wah wah"

A bunch of whining is all I hear here.

All I read here is a lot of unsubstanciated allegations against the police.

I guess if you promote hate twords the police it helps sell albums.

The Naples Daily News should be ashamed of themselves.

If there was any substanciated evidence with witnesses this would be in the courts, as it is it's just controversy that sells albums and newspapers.

Dork Season....and when their house is robbed, or someone in their family assaulted, who are they going to call ?

Before this, I'd never even heard of Dank Season.

Although I generally agree with the previous posts, I also believe that the sheriffs are a waste of taxpayaer dollars in Bonita Springs.
Most of the time they're out stopping cars and harrasing drivers, while much of the crime goes uninvestigated!
I have been a crime victim twice in the last couple of years - burglery and "vandalism" (committed with a firearm!) and the sheriff's office did NOTHING!
BUT, pull out of an intersection too fast (still under the speed limit) or have one of your windows tinted too dark, and BOOM!, you're busted! (Of course, during season, it's a free-for-all!)
Yeah, yeah, I know... they have "serious" crime to investigate! Well, if you're going to do the crime, do it in Bonita - the only way to get caught is if you're too drunk to run away! Hey, how many unsolved murders have occurred in Bonita over the past 5 years?
Bonita should seriously consider hiring its own police force. The dollars we send to Lee County for sheriff's to patrol could be better spent. Let's get a police force working for US!

How does this group get the "banner" status on the web site.

If this group were to sings songs about ethnic groups they would be shut down.

This article is a waste of time

billylauderdale, I suspect the banner headline is used because the newspaper is equating this to a "suppression of constitutional rights" to free expression, or something like that. True, it's a minor "suppression", but it does go to show that oftentimes the sheriffs department is focusing their resources ON MINOR CRAP and harassing the citizenry, rather than fighting REAL crime!

whats a waste of time and money is the cops sitting around waiting for problems that never happen.. thats my tax money sitting there waiting to harrass these guys!!

All I see is some free publicity for a band that probably would pass un-noticed by most of the community...Excellent business acumen on their part.

I have herd worse lyrics from rap singers what’s up CCSO

they need to hire some girls to be topless on stage with them and no one will get arrested

If I write a song about being a tough guy and taking on law enforcement, I shouldn't be shocked if it gets local cops mad. Rapper "Ice-T" had a similar problem with his song "Cop Killer". This is not a case of "uncharted waters". These guys wanted free publicity and to boost their "street cred". Duck Season (Wabbitt Season) should have known that the title of the song would attract negative attention as well as free publicity. You can't have it both ways boys.

Seriously folks, why pick on these kids trying to get a break, when you've got 20,000 cars on the road blasting out Rap music with lyrics that would make my Mom blush???? I take that back, they're not lyrics, they're not music, the Rap industry is a black mark on the music industry altogether. Rap is an embarrasment. Rock ON A Dank Season, Rock ON!

I have a suggestion, instead of harrassing american citizens because you disagree with their art .....how about doing something useful with my tax dollars, like harrassing some illegal aliens and sending them home.

Thanks!

If the police are in fact doing what this article claims we as citizens should be worried. This group has the constitutional right to free speech, and if a police officer attempts to strip away that right the officer should be removed from duty immediately. Antiwar protesters use that freedom everyday at some soldier’s funeral. The KKK, and white supremacy groups use it as well as many other groups most do not like. Every one of those groups receives police protection. The very fact that citizens are provided the right to free speech is what makes America special. We do not allow the government to impose its will against us, but instead provide the government with its power. Every job in America from the drive thru window operator to the President receives criticism from people who are served by that employee. Police officers that are unwilling to receive such criticism should perhaps find a different type of employment. I do not feel the album is in great taste, but I feel it's right to exist should be defended. It is not just the band that is harassed by this type of behavior from our police force, but also every free citizen that happens to be at that club. Imagine if you will every person that exits the building being pulled over, searched, and arrested simply because some cop didn't like the music played at the place. What happens when it is no longer about music but the race, or nationality of the person you are with? For any police officer to say, " Don't call me to do my job because I don't like you" is a threat to the life of that person. I think this needs to be stopped immediately, and any officer involved should be removed from duty.

Such an ugly thing for such a lovely County. BOY'S, Cop's are just like Bands, there's good ones and there's bad ones, if your going to put down the bad ones ...celebrate the good ones who make the difference between weather you get harassed instead of terminated. Why is it that if a girl shows her rear to protect animals from being used for fur, she's a hero... but if a Cop shows his rear to save his brothers lives, he's a villain? BOYZ you made your point...and that's more attention then these rascals are due. I don't know what your worried about anyway, you could fit all of the Counties heavy metal fans in a school bus. They could have gotten more attention and less stench... on a bathroom wall. No thanks to NDN

"their latest album after a criminal charge: Battery on a L.E.O, or law enforcement officer. They wrote a song to go with it, which they say is about police officers abusing power (“The badge doesn't give you strength/She corrupts your mind,”) and the album’s cover depicts a photoshopped drawing of an officer with a bloody head wound."

This band is scum. They need to take responsibility for what message they are sending to the youths of today. When rappers put out "F the Police" it was a disgrace as well. This is not art, it's garbage. You don't like the way police are doing their jobs, get off your lazy butt and become one.

Who is the guy in the picture with the limp wrist?

Waste of time NDN! I personally know several of these band members. Not worth the publicity. Lucky's must be starving to bring in talentless acts such as this. I hope the cops continue to watch these folks. You folks don't understand the real meaning of harrassment. A "DANK" season? Most of you people probably don't even know what they are referring to.

Messina makes valid points...

I think the band needs to get a lawyer and file a complaint against the police if they feel they have been harassed...power does tend to corrupt

It is a fact that there are SOME bad cops, but it looks like the lyrics (from what have been printed by NDN) possibly smears all cops (“The badge doesn't give you strength/She corrupts your mind,”) it's not clear from these few words if "you and your" are refering to one or a few bad cops, or "you and your" is a generality about all cops...which if the latter is the case, the police should sue the band..

Freedom of speech is critical to American democracy, but with it also goes responsibility and liability as also does the power that goes with a badge..

with an album title like "Battery on a L.E.O." the "artists" need to take extreem care in what they say and who they accuse as they should carefully consider libel and slander as possible repercussions, being an artist is no protection against libel or slander.

We are a nation of laws and this situation is one for the court and the lawyers IMO..the police can't police themselves, and independent citizen review boards are ALWAYS a necessity.

The band is obviously doing a lot of venting, expression and therapy in their music...sounds like Gestault to me...hope they're wearing ear plugs or they won't be able to hear the judge if law enforcement sues them and they lose...so lets go to court and attempt to find out who's telling the truth here.

Is the band promoting violence as the city police spokeswoman aledges? If the band is, why haven't they been arrested? Are club owners being bullied into not allowing the band to play? Is the dankness of "Dank Season" self imposed abusiveness and defiance of authority, or a matter of abuse by bad police? For a band to be motivated to make this kind of expression speaks of a serious problem. Is the problem from within, without, or both?

Some of you seem to think you know everything huh?I was there when the band members were harrassed and threatened by the police, I was there when the police yanked my boyfriend outside by his arm, pushed me, and threw him against the back of the car because he simply asked "who invited you guys here?" in a joking way (and he is not even in the band!).

Do you really think ADS wanted this to happen? Do you think they wanted their shows to be cancled, to be followed by the police everytime they do play somewhere? You think they want their name to be associated with "a band that brings drama?" NO!

This article fails to talk about the fact that A Dank Season won the Battle of the Bands, beating over 30 local bands. They won becasue they are good, talented, because their performance blows you away, and because they have die hard fans that have stuck with them WAY before this unfortunate run-in with the police. So for those of you with your negative opinions on something you really know nothing about, get it right. ADS is not trying to promote violence against anyone, they are making a point that power is too often abused in this nation. And for the commenter who claims that you can only fit metal fans in one school bus (stupid comment by the way) keep in mind ADS won this competition, so as of now metal is on top! ADS does not need "free publicity," thier music and performance speaks for itself! They did not ask for this to happen, but it did. Don't sit here and try to say they did cause this, because I was there, you weren't. And we don't need to be paying the law enforcement agency our tax dollars to harrass people trying to make art or people who are trying to appriciate it. I'm just a fan, and I was followed by poloice to my car and down 951 Tuesday night.

For those of you who don't like the message ADS is putting out, turn your head! Lastly, thankyou to those of you who understand the reality of this situation, people are being harrassed, not just the band members, and that is SCUM! that is garbage!
Neezdutz, who are you to say what is art and what is not? You've got it all wrong buddy!

Thankyou to Naples Daily News, and to those of you with your nice comments, for your support and understanding.

I think it is quite funny that four police officers (cars) have nothing better to do than pull up to the bar to escort the band out. I'm sure there was some kind of crime being committed somewhere in town and they would have been more useful there. They need to leave the band alone and find something else to do. Go grab a donut or two and park at the nearest recreation center to meet their buddies and conversate over the person or group of people they want to harrass. Get over it!

thanks chris031 thats funny, and true! Oh and the guy with the limp wrist, what he hell are you talking about! thats a pic of someone waving their hand with the music idiot.

Volochine (first post on this site) has it right.

Remember the cop at the Publix who tried to arrest the guy for tasting the grapes?? That still has me amazed and you can't find a better metaphor for CCSO than that incident!

Read the Bill of Rights people. Read them carefully and slowly, digest them. They were not written to give the State rights, they were written to give you rights and to keep the Federal and State Government out of your life. The Constitution does not give them the right to even come close to stopping these guys from playing their music.

And for the record. The cops are abusing people and they need to get rid of those tasers because they are using them at inappropriate times like little cowards. They tase people they could restrain with a simple arm lock. It's called PPCT Pressure Point Control Tactics. That takes some balls and some judgement, which most cops have neither anymore. tasing someone is sadistic and they do it (a lot of the time) because they think it's funny. TRUST ME ON THAT!

O.k. does anybody keep up with the news. isn't this ironic how earlier in the week there was also an arrest on four innocent people for a supposed beating on an off duty officer and his wife. except it was the other way around-the wife attacked the girls first and the officer followed in. Is Anybody getting these messages that our citizens are trying to tell us. if there is an arrest the same week A Dank Season comes out with there album "Battery On A L.E.O." Society is trying to step up. Obviously the cops that are the ones defending these cases, and freedom of speech-are the ones who are trying to cover up their guilt. Yes there are good cops out there! True. And maybe nobody likes the cops untill you need them,but the truth being discovered about bad cops is nothing new. this has been an uprising epedemic since cops were originated. its just been hard to prove in a court of law, because the justice system is all screwed up. Anyways both cases that have posted this week involve all of my friends who have nothing to do eachother. i support the drive, passion, and encouragement that comes from A Dank Season. And i also support the victims who were arrested earlier this week for just trying to stand up for themselves.Collier county is too small for people to have such big opinions. i know ignorance is breed in our up coming generation but enough is enough. If your all so worried about where your tax dollars are being spent, then we need to all start listening to the voices that are speaking out for us because you are all to coward to do so yourselves. Congratulations to Jesse, Mike,Chris, Jim, And Mark (All Members in A Dank Season) Keep up the good work and you all work hard and deserve to be #1. Don't worry all your fans got your back!!!

I don't think that the people here that are talking down a dank season really even know what they are talking about. But don't worry crooked cops will get to you too , and there is no way in hell you could fit all the metal heads on a school bus, our numbers are much larger than you can imagine. and if one of our homes were to be invaded we wouldn't need to call the police, we would only need a body bag and a shovel. Now I'm not saying there aren't any good cops, there are I've met a few, however most of them are bad, they abuse the crap out of their power, they jump to the wildest conclusions, and are just around to muck things up as much as their little donut eating hearts can. Remember the kind of power these cops have will corrupt even the most honest individuals, and as many "good" cops as i have met, i still did not trust them one bit. The band is not promoting violence, the police are. People have to understand that we can only take so much of this before bad reactions with the police start to happen. Nobody wants that, but if something isn't done soon, i fear that may be what occurs.

Welcome to fascist Naples.

Congrats to A Dank Season on winning the Lucky's contest with an exceptional fan turnout. (Our band BACKLASH was one of the other finalists)
More congrats to the ADS boys on the publicity gained from the 'controversy'. The decision to name an album as such, presented with a startling graphic image and attention grabbing lyrics, was no doubt a crafty one with an obvious artistic and creative 'edgyness' that represents their music. C'mon, it's just that, music. Our own set in the contest finale included the Rolling Stone's classic, "Sympathy for the devil", in which I sing the line, "Every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners, saints..."

Was THAT a controversial lyric in it's day? Sure... Do I BELIEVE that line cause I sing it? NO. Our drummer is an ex-cop, actually, so let's all remember that it's music we are talking about.

Can't we all just SING along??????

TK, lead singer BACKLASH

I think its hillarious how people can be so quick to judge artistic expression...to those of you who hide behind your keyboards and dont make it out into the real world, who are you to even have an oppinion? dont you think that if the band could afford a lawyer they would have one...no lawyer will fight the cops without the proper $$$$

Naples 74, please tell me you're not a cop. A house can't be robbed. It's an inanimate object. It can only be burglarized. Like a vehicle or business is burglarized.
It requires the introduction of a human victim to make it a robbery. Cop 101, like the first week in academy.
Again, please tell me you're not a cop; if so, the dumbing down process is complete.
To the kids in the band, if what you say is true, keep multiple video cameras or video phones ready and use them. Then contact a Miami or Tampa lawyer and the U.S. Justice Dept. The harassment, assuming it's true, will come to a screeching halt.

If I were the band, I would start video taping any confrontations with these CCPD. Then you can sure the A** for harassment, and defmation of character.

I think the cops are a bit too headstrong in this community. Something I feel they forget who they serve.

This is a direct quote taken from the A Dank Season myspace page (www.myspace.com/adankseason)..

"A Dank Season at no time supports violence against police; in fact, the band acknowledges that police are an essential part of a functioning society. However, the band does believe that there is a large population of police nationwide that use their position of authority to intimidate, threaten, and in many cases abuse the public. A Dank Season wants to bring attention to those police officers who do not deserve their positions and constantly abuse their authority."

Go there and read it for yourself before you go on here and bad mouth some kids out there struggling to keep a dying breed of music alive. I tip my hat to you guys ADS! You have my support allways..

"Art?" Are you kidding me? I love how no-talent hacks can write anything they want and the minute they are called on it they scream censorship.

Apparently you can promote violence, promote rape, promote drugs, promote hate, but as long as you say, "But it's my ART", the rest of have to accept it.

Please. Something is very wrong here.

Yes beachykeen, your understanding of the 1st Amendment.
I hate heavy metal, so I don't listen to it; problem solved. I love blues, rock, and some country (classics). Maybe you don't; don't listen, problem solved.

Amazing. These kids have a cause and now NDN is giving them a voice.

...and the cop-hating adolescents on this board follow along like rats to the piper.

There are many different forms of art. Some i dont like either. But guess what, if i dont like it, i have the choice not to listen. Its ignorant to say that we promote violence when its quoted on our web page that:

"A Dank Season at no time supports violence against police; in fact, the band acknowledges that police are an essential part of a functioning society. However, the band does believe that there is a large population of police nationwide that use their position of authority to intimidate, threaten, and in many cases abuse the public. A Dank Season wants to bring attention to those police officers who do not deserve their positions and constantly abuse their authority."

artists are protected in many forms under the 1st ammendment. It is legal for an artist to describe their own feelings. Thats what makes it art. Wether its corrupt cops, or the legalization of marijuanna. It doesnt matter. If you dont like it, plug your ears because ADS isnt going anywhere!!!!

Legalize It

beachykeen
have you ever been to their shows? "no-talent!" are you kidding ME! everyone has a right to express their art, whether you like it or not. you have the right to express your narrow-minded opinions don't you?
ADS has always been a good band, before this happened with the police. they did not cause or ask for this, but it happened
get a check on reality before you go calling people talentless and voicing ignorant opninions!
listen to 676, if you don't like something, pay it no mind
heavy metal is not my favorite type of music, but talented bands are, no matter what type of music it is, I appricaite talent!
TK from Backlash, thanks for the comment.I was getting a little worried at the show cause you guys were sounding really good! Definately impressive It was tight competition! I hope you and ADS play together again soon

Ok...you have a hard time selling albums so the best FREE publicity that you can get is going to the newspaper?

This just seems like a bunch of crying and whining.

In this wake of all of the immigration issues, I vote to deport all of the whiners and cry babies.

if you don't care why take the time to comment!
some of you people are so irritating
ADS isn't going anywhere but up, I'm not coming to this page again because the massive ignorance is just pi**ing me off
peace

I don't listen to heavy metal and I'm actually not against censorship.

What bothers me is the hypocrisy of groups like A Dank Season. The show a violent image on their CD cover, name their CD "Battery on a Law Enforecement Office" and then disingenuously say, "Oh, but we don't promote violence".

Dudes, you just did.

A Dank Season;
On the Fifth of May 2007, around 11:00 PM after the band finished their set at Sundowns in Fort Myers, a total of fifteen police officers arrived at the show, searched a lot of spectators, carded a lot of people and announced that the show had to stop until they were shown the venue's liquor license, which took around 45 minutes to do. After the license was produced, the officers announced that everyone from A Dank Season needed to report outside immediately or they would shut the show down again. Once A Dank Season was outside, Mark Good (guitar player) was told put his hands on the car and told by a Ft. Myers police officer "I'll take your f**king eye out". The reason was because they acquired a copy of A Dank Season EP " Battery on a L.E.O." and didn't agree with the symbolic artwork on the cover (which is protected by the first Amendment in the Bill of Rights). All this after being singled out, lectured extensively, threatened and shown a complete disregard of their rights. Police officers refused to give band members their names, so no grievance was filed. A Dank Season was released free of charges and one sticker less. (there is plenty of artwork all over the country that some people don’t appreciate, but that is no reason to become harassed.)

On May 7th 2007, two City of Ft. Myers Police Officers entered the Indigo Room (located in downtown Ft. Myers ), where A Dank Season was scheduled to play next (May 19th 2007). The officers proceeded to misinform the owner(s) that A Dank Season promotes brutality towards police and that if A Dank Season was to perform," there would be problems". So, under the assumption A Dank Season promotes things that they in fact do not, Indigo Room cancelled the show. This attempt to censor A Dank Season should not go unnoticed, because if local law enforcement begins violating musicians' rights without resistance, they are given free reign to shut down any form of artistic expression that they do not personally agree with.

The Supreme Court Justice David Souter ruled that some of the forms of artistic expression protected under the First Amendment are: music, painting, poetry, motion pictures, dramatic works, radio, television entertainment, drawings, and all engravings. A Dank Seasons' artwork, lyrics, and music are certainly protected by this and should be censored in no way, shape or form.

These aspects of an isolated incident should fall under the protection of the First Amendment, but were fully violated by local police. Everyone who expresses free speech in Florida should be extremely concerned, because when one person's rights are unsafe, the rights of no one are safe.

police officers are sworn to uphold the law.. not make them.

I just wonder how long its going to take law enforcement to realize that THEY ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY.

Every time a lawsuit is filed around the country due to police abuse, it puts the law enforcement community on the public radar..it causes policy changes resulting in stricter policies.. further limiting their ability to do their job when it comes to the REAL bad guys. Come on law enforcement people Stop doing the things that cause these law suits!

This is a freedom of speech issue..whether you like the bands message or not.

It looks like the band made their point about abuse of power.....actually the police handling this made the point for them.
The days of law enforcement having carte blanche are coming to end.

AHH! okay one more comment to theoryofdisaster
they did not ask the paper to come there! THEY DID NOT GO TO THE NEWSPAPER, THE NEWS CAME TO THEM!!!
i wish i could call you so many names right now, but I guess that would be whining huh?

I think that the cops are trying to blacklist the band. I don't agree with the album cover especially with the state the country is in today. As we all know, they could be a national security threat and we could be on level orange alert tomorrow. I do think the cops should just leave them alone and the band should think about the consequences and repercussions their actions may have in the future. Don't we love the land of the free and the home of the brave??? Of course we do! But we all know that there is a limit on how free our speech can actually be. We would be arrested for yelling fire in a movie theater, so don't think that you won't have any consequences for depicting a wounded, possibly dead officer on your album cover.

dank = marijuana

ADANKSEASON...I dont like your artwork..and I do not like your music.

However, I totally agree with your point about freedom of speech.

If they squelch yours, then mine is in jeopardy too. So in essence, as a result of the officers actions, we are joined together in this fight for the rights all Americans have. Freedom of speech.

Good luck in your and my fight for freedom of speech .

“It's like they say, one bad egg ruins a dozen,” said Keiper, the lead singer. “You get a couple cops out there that treat you like crap, that come up to your car when you get a ticket” — he lowered his voice and puffed out his chest — “I pulled you over because I've got a badge and I'm awesome.”
No mention of the fact that they broke the law (reason for being pulled over)
I say we make DankSeason all bloody at their next concert. (but i really don't mean it)

You know...if law enforcement was smart, they would have totally undermined the message this band has by being sweet as apple pie.

But instead they walked right into it like they were blindfolded. The police did exactly what the band accuses them of. Who is the smarter of the two?
Now Im sure the department will have lawsuits to contend with. Money to pay. And in the end they will not be allowed to hassle this band again.

Who wins? The band does because law enforcement couldnt seperate personal feelings from professionalism.

Thank You!!!!!

Finally theres somebody out there that, regaurdless of their personal feelings, understands thant there is an infringement of the first ammendment here. Nobody HAS to like A Dank Season, thant is not the point. (And quite frankly, album sales, and free publicity are the least of our worries). But if this is where cencorship starts...where does it end, for anyone! Thats the point!

"(citizens have rights, freedoms, and privacy)"

Richie Valens,The Big Bopper and members of Lynard Skinner were killed in a plane crash, and we can't even get "A Dank Season to the airport"!!!!

If these allegations are in fact true, I agree with 676. Keep documentation and records of incidents.Then find a good attorney and file.
I do have to point out that maybe they should not have put said picture on their CD cover if they did not want the negative attention. I've never listened to their music, but do like metal and hard rock. Not really interested in music and material of this sort, though. Does remind me of whole Ice T "Cop Killers" fiasco years ago. All that did for him was make him richer and give him more street cred with the lovely human beings..
Maybe they did it to sell CD's, who knows?
Either a very brilliant or very stupid marketing ploy...
Guess only time will tell...

Isn't the whole purpose of art to evoke an emotional responce?

Doesn't it seem that "A Dank Season" has done just that?

If "A Dank Season" is being harrassed by any law enforcement officers or their venues are being "leaned on" then report it. Each officer has their name printed on their uniform or a tag with such. Each law enforcement vehicle has easily visible numbers marking the vehicles.

If there are law enforcement personnel out there harrassing civilians there are at least ten times as many law enforcement personnel who want it stopped.

This is for Flackr.

This is David Horath from the article.If you in fact knew anyone in ADS,You would not say what you are saying.First of all how are they talentless?I have known Mark,and Jesse for almost Ten years and in those Ten years they have worked their asses off to be in the music industry.Both have been playing Guitar for 10 yrs.So there is one of your claims down the drain.

Second they don't understand harrassment? Do you know what we have been objected to behind closed doors and walking on the street? You don't know us at all Flackr.There were times Mark,and I would be walking home around 9pm and be stopped by cops and harressed.There has been plenty of times where cops have abused their power to,and in front of us.They are harrassing the band.Anyone who can see can see it.

I have cops in my family.My Grandfather was the Police Chief of New York.Now I don't want good cops getting beat up or anything.But if it is anything with anyone abusing power they deserve it all.You don't become a cop to push people around.But the sad case is most of the cops are people that like to do exactly that.

Our society does need cops,don't get me wrong.But it's the bad ones that outnumber the good ones in this town,and anywhere else.

ps.Flackr..if they're so talentless why don't you do something?Why don't you put your name so we can know who you are like this..

David Horath

Is the band promoting violence as the city police spokeswoman aledges? If the band is, why haven't they been arrested? Are club owners being bullied into not allowing the band to play?

- Prometheus

No they are not,and yes venues are getting bullied by cops.Saying how they would appreciate it if they didn't let ADS play or else there would be trouble.

I had a good time at Lucky's@951 - The food was awesome! The bands were great! The cops didn't bother me... neither did A Dank Season. At the end of the night I went home, kissed my wife, had a glass of ginger-ale, checked my email, threw a dart at a picture of W., thanked God for the men and women fighting in Iraq, fell asleep without a care in the world... and had a dream that I was in a metal band and all the vegetarians in the world hated me because I wrote a song about how much I like murdering cows and eating beef... but the non-vegetarian girls loved me...oh, how they loved me.

Naples74 your retarded. NeezDutz your an idiot, Flacrkr you're talented SCUM BAG. USCITIZEN chill out, come hangout October 12th with ADS at In Bonita!

Don't judge a book by its cover. Thats all needs to be said.

If you guys think ADS has no talent in what they do, come see for your self. Check www.myspace.com/adankseason for their upcoming shows.

I fully support these guys, and Thanks to NDN all you readers now know what the Lee and Collier Sheriffs are up to when they got nothing better to do, Instead of "Serving and Protecting" our communities they are harrasing and chasing citizens/musicians that only want to show their god given talents.

ADS seems like they're just POed because one of them got busted a few years ago. Now these 20-year-olds are all about police brutality and singing about The Man.

Please, you're from Naples, for God's sake. Have you even moved out of your parents' house yet?

I retract my earlier post about art, because I don't believe in censorship and believe you should sing what you want, but I still think you're hypocrites.

Stop hating on Naples Daily News.

They provide NEWS.

People vs. The Man (an Old Time Classic)

I know, I know because of KRS-One.

KRS-One: "Da Sound of the Police"

-->As for the influenced youth they need to be monitored by their parents.

Beachykeen dude your so dumb. Don't you have to go to beach to pick up more sea shells or something...?

"All I read here is a lot of unsubstanciated allegations against the police."

There were about 80 witnesses there that night? Maybe more? that's not very unsubstanciated.

Everytime we've played Sundowns since there have always been undercover police there. Luckily we haven't been harassed, and I like to think it's because ADS helped clear up the way and made that incident public. Good guys, good band.

Can't wait for the next show with you guys!

-wil & the emaciated

fo:

1) Learn how to spell--no one who types UR is going to be taken seriously.

2) "fukoff"? Ooh, clever. You certainly pulled one over on the NDN with that one.

3) "HUH". You really have a way with words.

Beachykeen:

1) gayest nickname ever.
2) "UR" NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY ARE U..?
3) do us a favor, shut up!

I cannot believe in today’s world (especially in the USA), we have people that are SO ignorant and naïve; still today. Do you really think there are NO bad cops out there? PLEASE! So, we can make fun of our president, criticize our government, ridicule our laws publicly and what they stand for, but we CANNOT express a dislike for harassment or injustice in a song because it is about a bad cop? WOW!!! You know, you can tell this is a small town and cops don’t have to worry about real crimes. If it was a big city this would not be an issue, cops would be busy doing what they get paid to do and should be doing. Not harassing a small local band because the lyrics hurt their egos.

WILL...The Emaciated, song KKK ROCKS MAN!! I forget what it stands for though....
See you at the Halloween Show.

Good luck to ADS, it is a heavily saturated, industrialized music industry out there. If they feel that strongly they have been wronged, hire a good attorney, what more can be said? They choose to put the CD cover out knowing full well they might receive backlash. They should have been prepared for this. Good luck to them, capitalize on your 15 minutes of fame. Next!

TruthHurtz, as a former cop, I'm big-time pro law-enforcement. At the same time, I'm anti punk cops that abuse the badge and their oath. (remember the oath?) As a former IAD investigator, I've also been around the block a few times.
You consistently attack anyone who questions, and always defend "your bothers", regardless of the facts. That's a problem, a big problem. You've reached that "us against them" (civilians) stage, one I've seen played out time after time.
I say to Hunter and Scott, if this is happening, you've been put on notice. No telling when some former cop, with the resources, time, and plenty of court experience (testifying in over 200 cases), might just decide to document and get to the bottom of this, which ever way the facts lead.

These guys are honest hard working citizens. Out there to not only to make money and become big, but to have fun! If having fun and making a living is a crime.. then i think its time for a revolution. Ive seen a lot bad things on the side of the cops, hell I know a DUI officer who sells cocaine right out of his own house! Even so that cop has children.. If thats not dirty, I dont know what is. The album "Battery on an LEO" (or should i say just that song) was made because a member of the band was at Ozzfest in '06; was moshing and accidentally hit an undercover cop in the crowd. He was convicted of the charge, and from there him and his band formed a song, Relaying that SOME Cops are dirty and conniving. They will do anything to get their way and to make their quota at the end of the month. They're bored and have nothing better to do than to harass our local scene. Boys, just have a good time, sing, scream and play your heart out. Dont let the "authority" get in the way of what you love to do. You will always have some sort of censorship riding your a**.. just let the BS slide and rock on. ADS is awesome and to the people who have bad-mouthed them... may swarms of ticks infest 1,000 of your camels. As for Naples Daily News, I thank you for spreading the word of how our law enforcement is doing a shanty job, and I ask of you to look deeper into how our little piggies are doing, because theres a lot of harassing going on out there. A lot of bad cops. Cops are there to protect a society and enforce its law, they're taking it an extra step. When a cop harasses you, its crossing a line. The cops have brought this upon themselves. Im just glad the word is finally out.
-Heather Piper

local, if you know a cop that's selling anything illegal out of his house (how would you know?) and you don't report it to FDLE, then you're not doing YOUR job as a citizen.
Cops have pressure on them to "perform" in the ticket writing area, etc., but a quota doesn't exist.
You're a little over the top on the other side of reason. That's not helpful; think about it.

It appears that the "cops" have done ADS the biggest favor in the world by giving them an "edge" of notoriety. Now that they are notorious, people know who they are.

David, don't act all indignant. This seems to be exactly what you want. Your music and your message will forever be shadowed by these antics.

What a shame that this is what it takes to make a name in the music business these days.

676.. i know because im their neighbor. i see what goes on and i dont care enough to report the idiot. let him make his own mistakes. Its fun to watch. Well if you wanna get promoted in the policing area a quota does exist. Anyway im not here to argue with people. Im here to make my point.. leave my comment. and get on with my life. On that note: A Dank Season rocks. They have my support.

676 PS:
youre not making it any better by clouding this blog with fixing my mistakes. think about it.

"Naples74 your retarded. NeezDutz your an idiot, Flacrkr you're talented SCUM BAG. USCITIZEN chill out, come hangout October 12th with ADS at In Bonita!" - bottymanrique

I'm retarded because I support this band's right to express thier art any way they blasted well please? I am retarded because I think that rather than harrassing band members over their music, they should be out enforcing the laws against people who really are breaking them?

No sir, I'm not retarded ...but I am guessing you have an issue with reading comprehension. By the way, where is this band playing in Bonita? I'll give you a chance to call me an idiot in person.

I AM GOING TO BUY THE CD.

ALSO I DO AGREE WITH ALMOST ALL OF YOU.

THE FOURTH REICH IS RAISING IN NAPLES AND OTHER PARTS OF SW FL.

WHAT ELSE CAN BE A SOCIETY WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKES THE OATH TO PROTECT AND SERVE FAIL IN THE COMMITMENT. INSTEAD THEY GO AGAINST THE PEOPLE THAT PAY THEIR SALARY.

LETS GET RIDE OF THOSE CROOKS WITH A GUN AND A BADGE AND WITH VERY BAD INTENTIONS AND THE MOST IMPORTANT : THEIR CAPACITY TO HARM AND MAKE SUFFERING THE RIGTH CITIZENS.

WE NEED A CHANGE, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH OUR LEADERS.

THINK ABOUT...........

People that have to insult like that typically don't have the facts to debate. I don't take it personally. It's just a child talking, it's ok.

The Police don't seem to bother me, I wonder why????

This whole thing is beginning to sound like a re-run of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago...

Was Abby Hoffman right? I'll bet he'd be laughing out loud if he could read this blog!

P.S. Most of the cops on the beat don't even REMEMBER 1968!

Those who fail to recognize the past are doomed to repeat it...

Iron Maiden makes all other metal bands (except for Queensryche and Savatage) look like untalented idiots!!! Most of Maiden's songs are about war - and - great news for all you Maiden fans - they are touring in '08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'Us against them mentality'
What causes that? Could it be that that mentality is fostered by experience?
Personally, I believe that most cops are "good" cops. Unfortunately, all too frequently ANY group of individuals is judged based on the behavior of a few bad apples. That is called "guilt by association". Too bad for the good guys - get rid of the rotten apples!!!

I just listen to Dank's song and I can make better music with my butthole!!!!!

I just listen to Dank's song and I can make better music with my butthole!!!!!
You are awesome 'whatswrong'

Im glad NDN decided to go with this story.

The only people that are facilitating this groups message are the police officers who allowed their personal feelings to get in the way of their of professionalism.

ADS is well within their right. I didn't know freedom of speech had a footnote! The problem we have here is that we are in a white, christian, GOD fearing conservative area, with hypocritical "moral values." There is NO chance for bands like ADS or my band (shameless plug here) The Emaciated to go anywhere in this area. venue after venue shut down. Why? People of this area fear change. They fear a social uprising of the youth. What do old people know about the young? Nothing. Next thing you know these kids are gonna start saying that the world isn't flat. Hail Satan...

If the police officers feel so strongly against this group..then when they are all off duty...on level playing field with the rest of society...go picket this group where they perform. That is their right as US citizens too. Both sides have them.

Isnt there a law against police officers approaching businesses while in uniform or while on duty asking for special favors? Anyone know?
If I understand the article correctly..the officers approached business owners while on duty and asked them to cancel or prevent this group from performing there.

What a rock and hard place to be. You OBVIOUSLY dont want to anger the police.
Anyone know for sure what the laws are on this..if there are any?

Songs about police abusing power is not the same as instigating violence. And there are A LOT of cops in this town that abuse there power! Also, any venue that bows to police intimidation is not a place I can respect anyway. Good luck ADS!! At least you gotta love the free publicity!

Ok so i had a typo. (their) My B. Anyway, i wanted to give kudos to 676 for being a respectable law enforcement rep. And to ask Naples74 who he's going to call when people in power try to take away his rights? Hmmm???