Walmart in "rare" form

Wal-Mart has developed a reputation of being a "turncoat" corporation who once exuded integrity, honor, and moral values. In the last 15 years, the once proud mega corp. has opted to dash its values, and ethics for a more distinct trait of "loving of money", trashing the working class while replacing them with less costly immigrants freshly off the fence, and leaving a boot-print on small business. It's been in the news for years, and I have seen it first hand.  Wal-Mart is also known for employing the most brutal of lawyers, delivering the shifty policy changes to protect them for years of mistreatment toward American workers, countless law suits, and corruption within its highest ranks.

Make no mistake about it, this worldwide corporation has elected to side with policy rather than with right. 

Today I was shocked to see in the news, it appears that Wal-Mart has banned Greenday the punk rock band that made it in to the big-time, for language and content. Good for them. Now, do I think it is a sign of things to come, no. I tend to think it is a double standard as a matter of fact. You're going to ban Green Day for language, and sell Katy Perry's CD's? Parents need to educate themselves. Have you seen what is on the shelves of your local Wal-Mart? Have you read the lyrics to some of the most popular songs that kids love today? You have illicit speech and deliberate sexual innuendos that sum up many of them. Some don't even bother insinuating but rather come across as blatant, disrespectful, womanizing, and degrading, and then they call it art.  "I'm an artist", or "I'm just expressing myself". That to me is quite frightening. They are expressing themselves? Again, have you read some of these lyrics? Having been a fan of Green Day in my youth, going to see them play in bars before they made it big, it's funny seeing them singled out all of the sudden for a few cuss words when Wal-Mart has Eminem, AC/DC, Lady Gaga, Rancid, Iron Maidens' Flight 666, and many more albums that are influential and morally detrimental to America's youth.

Green Day's bassist had this to say:

But bassist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."

Since when did profanity become an art form? How did we get where foul language, references to sexual behavior, illicit drug usage, and murder is considered an art form? We've come along way from 1964's "Under the Boardwalk".

All in all, it seems Wal-Mart just wants their once-reputable name back in the news for something other than union problems, disgruntled workers (rightly so!), DHS, and FBI investigation, and high administration members being imprisoned for theft right out of the workers pockets. Will their action stop the river of filth that spews from the music industry? It won't even make a minuscule scratch.