HEEP MONUMENT
This is today's edition from a very popular comic in Holland's second biggest national newspaper 'De Volkskrant':
It reads:
It was about time a monument was raised
for Uriah Heep
Explanation:
last week in Amsterdam a monument was
unveiled remembering the assassination
of movie director/columnist etc. Theo
van Gogh, who was killed by a wannabe
moslem terrorist. It depicts a 'scream'
and refers to freedom of speech.
The link to Sonic was published before,
but always in sidelines and never as
visible as this time.
(especially in this context it is funny
to have that said by two women in burqas.
The burqa ladies have been featured in
this comic for a long time now and they
always make comments that you do not
associate with burqa ladies - as in this
case: it's extremely unlikely they would
sooner associate this with Heep than
with moslem terrorism or with freedom of
speech)
It's definitely not a bad thing for Heep
to be associated with Theo van Gogh! in
fact this way Heep is associated with
freedom of speech, and that is of course
a very good thing. It's also a pretty
honourable thing to be featured in this
comic. Not many bands do, it's usually
either social or political issues and IF
people are featured by name, it's people
in the news, like politicians. I can't
remember any other musician ever being
mentioned.
I suggest next time they're in Holland,
the band should pay a visit to the
monument (accompanied by journalists of
course) and pay their respects to
'freedom of speech'.