Reply #19: the Cash lyrics did not espouse death to ordinary people [View All]

that's why I speculated that they may have been taken out of context. The Cash song was about a guy singing the blues because he had done cocaine and killed somebody and now was in prison for life. It was a song of regret, not a song saying "hurrah for the murderer!".

As for cop killing, it's a little bit like any other authority. In basketball, you get called for a foul if you slam another player to the ground. If you slam a referee into the ground, that would be a much more serious penalty - ejection from the game and multi-game suspension. Same in football. Unsportsmanlike conduct, late hits, hitting another player is a fifteen yard penalty. Striking a ref would be ejection, suspension, etc. Same thing in school. Get into a fight with a fellow student and get suspended. Get into a fight with a teacher and get expelled.