Steve's message posted to an AOL
 message board on 10 June 2000

last updated:  12 March 2001

posted to an AOL message board on 10 June 2000:

I haven't looked at this board in months and when I do, I'm gettin' my ass kicked.  Oh well.  Anyway, I'm not that well yet and sometimes I get my feelings hurt and let it go, and sometimes like now I feel the need to adress it.  But just for the record:  I did say that I would move if this state ever executed anyone.  I meant it – at the time – the time being before it actually happened.  When I got on the other side of an event that I've spent five years of my life working to prevent, I CHANGED MY FUCKING MIND based on several factors some of which are nobody's business and one very public one.  I'm not going out like that.  This is my home and I love this state.  So I'm staying.  If that makes me hypocrytical in the eyes of some folks – so be it.  At any rate, it ain't about covenience.  Anybody who knows me will tell you I don't do covenience.  And at least I did manage to start a dialogue about the death penalty on a message board that normally deals with such burning issues as 
"who's cuter – Jay or Jeff".  Hey, that's something anyway.

Whatever,
Steve Earle 

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