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Sum 41's Deryck Whibley threatened with deportation

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 12:55 PM (EDT)

Though the timing is a little suspect, at least one site is reporting that Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has been threatened with deportation due to some controversial lyrics on the band's new album, Underclass Hero.

According to Deryck:

He (the reporter) went to the House minority leader in the States (a Republican), who tried to have me deported, trying to say I'm threatening the president."

The band's new record was released today.

Island Records (108 comments)

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

First!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

second!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Third!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Fourth!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Fifth!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Sixth!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

7th!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

8th!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

ninth!

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T-Rock (July 24, 2007)

Infinity!

(Game, set, match)

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Way to fucking ruin it, man. Where are you from? There was a kid on my block that used to always steal the kickball because he sucked at it and thought we were having too much fun.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

12th!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

13th!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

14th!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

15th

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daved4 (July 24, 2007)

16th

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

17th

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Someone (July 25, 2007)

18th!

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2Kings (July 30, 2007)

19th

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

14th!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

16th

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KurtTGS (July 24, 2007)

You assholes.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Gee, I guess I should want to buy this album now?

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

total publicity stunt.

still love this band though.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Ahhhhh hahahahahahahahahahahaha! *gasp* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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nocigar (July 24, 2007)

now that's punk

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T-Rock (July 24, 2007)

Please leave Avril with me.

---Tom Gabel

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skaboom (July 24, 2007)

While I'm sure this is a publicity stunt aimed at making the band look more "edgy", I would be completely unsurprised if this sort of thing actually happens.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

i don't think it'd edgy to hate bush. all the cool kids are doing it.

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T-Rock (July 24, 2007)

And those kids' moms, who don't have healthcare.

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listofdemands (July 24, 2007)

and 70% or so of the U.S. oh, yeah, and the people who read book and pay any kind of attention to what is going on.
-nic

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listofdemands (July 24, 2007)

book=books
-nic

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Someone (July 25, 2007)

I'll need an airtight proof on this one please.

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skaboom (July 24, 2007)

I'm also surprised the album wasn't reviewed today. I still have a soft spot for the band.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

then review it faggot

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skaboom (July 24, 2007)

Well you see, it just came out today. I don't download every single cd that comes my way. I support the scene, so there is no way I could have listened to the cd and written a review by today.

Also, what's the point of your comment? I mean seriously, are you that angry?

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WarIsPeace (July 24, 2007)

Sum41 gets a lot of people riled up apparently.

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ChokingVictim (July 24, 2007)

you an i continue to find ourselves in agreement

except about supporting the scene, fuck dat shit

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die_die_die (July 24, 2007)

Is that soft spot in your ass? Get back to me on that.

Love,
Your dad.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Sume41

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

cum41

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

good one, although i think the most i could personally pull of is like 3 or 4

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

thats what happens when you're doin it with Avril in front of the white house

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T-Rock (July 24, 2007)

"Underclaaaaass hero,
Alternative communication"

Wait, wrong song.

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NotPatriotic (July 24, 2007)

I get it

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

anti fag right?

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Citizen_Crack (July 25, 2007)

you are a fool.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Bad Religon>sum41

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

fall out boy>bad religion>sum 41

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Someone (August 6, 2007)

bad religion > most

fall out boy is gay and should be labeled as punk

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Someone (August 6, 2007)

should NOT, my bad

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ZombieCrush (July 24, 2007)

Men Without Hats> Sum41

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

they can dance if they want to

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facetofacereunion08 (July 24, 2007)

blink 182> sum 41

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Utah>sum41

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Say it ain't so

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Rick Astley>Sum 41

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zetsurinpower (July 24, 2007)

send him to fucking gitmo for all i care this band is pants

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Bruce Willis > Fallout Boy

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2Kings (July 30, 2007)

> Fallout boy

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sizzla (July 24, 2007)

this totally makes sense. if i was the president of us and a, i would definitely feel threatened by Deryck Whibley's lyrics and take time out of my busy day to try to have him deported.

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trevor_the_exploder (July 24, 2007)

he is the one who "laugh(s) when old people fall...."

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

yeah i know. "what would you expect with a conscience so small"

next:

"we're all to blame"

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

the record comes out today ???

total publicity !!! FREE publicity !!

the album is quite bad, anyway

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

They should be deported for making such shitty music.

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Banal242 (July 24, 2007)

That article is so poorly written. No sources cited. I call bull shit.

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Someone (July 26, 2007)

This isn't bullshit. Check this out:

http://www2.kerrang.com/2007/07/sum_41_threatened_with_de porta.html

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

I'm not really sure that this is a publicity stunt. If he was doing time on DUI charges, though, that's a different story.

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SumWon (July 24, 2007)

Hahaha. This is too much. So, "he (the reporter)" can just trot up to the House minority leader with a bit of gossip and a lyric sheet and get someone deported? Give me a fucking break.

And he felt the need to say that the dude was "(a Republican)" like it's the mean ole Republicans that are denying him his freedom of speech! Hahaha, come on man. This is the most childish thing I have ever seen.

How old is this Sum41 loser, anyways? He sounds like some snot-nosed 4th grader lying about some other kid bullying him so he can get attention.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

they should just shoot him in the face instead.

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T-Rock (July 24, 2007)

I'm willing to bet that the lyrics are no worse than the lyrics in American Idiot (which, as we all know, are childs play).

If this is grounds for deportation, Strike Anywhere's lyrics should be grounds for execution.

I'm sorry, I just really like Strike Anywhere.

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Tom1022 (July 24, 2007)

strike anywhere is the best.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

I love Strike Anywhere, but they take the prize for the worst lyrics in a song that I actually like: "And you try to hard to forget you're alive, but you're alive. I absolutely cringe everytime I hear them.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

sorry, that was me

-BarleyPat

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

yeah!! i totally dig that songbut that part cracks me up.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

And they say "take back what they steal" in like 3 different songs. They are my favorite band, but what the hell?

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

you emo fags

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

hey, im not emo.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

but you're still a fag

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

What do the lyrics that are being referred to, say? I haven't heard the album, probably won't and I'm curious.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

"Ladies and gentlemen of the underclass/ The president of the United States of America is dead... And now the president's dead/ Because they blew off his head/ No more neck to be red/I guess to heaven he fled."

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Ahahahahaha. Is that for real?

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

They also tell bush to drop dead.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Man, I'm pretty sure I've dropped things in the toilet that wrote better lyrics than that.

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Someone (July 25, 2007)

The level of gayness in those lyrics is the equivilent to two elderly men sensually giving eachother massages while listening to Enya.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Cum4DeezBunz

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=THKngDe-5J8

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Not funny.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

thing is i dont even hate this band as much as most people do. but its really pathetic that they are trying to cash in on the whole Green Day American Idiot political vibe. I mean even the title...Underclass hero...pretty similar to American Idiot if you think about it. and since when is Sum 41 political...answer...since Green Day made a fortune making a political record.

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I-type-poorly (July 24, 2007)

god dammit people, American Idiot isn't a political album. Bash it all you like, but be correct about it. Calling it a poor man's Quadrophenia would be more on the mark. Holiday is the only political song on the album. The rest is pretty much the point-of-view of a young and stupid punk with more opinions than he knows what to do with.

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T-Rock (July 24, 2007)

I think you're forgetting the title track, dood.

But you're pretty much correct.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Sum 41 has been political since Does This Look Infected? dipshit. How can people not realize that Still Waiting and We're All To Blame were both really political songs. They also had politcal songs besides also.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

actually they were political before Green Day actually... they were never straight forward about their political ideas but they were. DOES THIS LOOK INFECTED? had a few political type songs on it, "my direction" "still waiting", "mr amsterdam" comes to mind. they did that whole stint in the congo trying to educate themselves and other people about what tragedies are going on in other countries, and then got stuck there when war broke out. CHUCK didn't really have too much lyrical content pertaining to politics but the artwork kinda did. i think both those albums came out a few years before AMERICAN IDIOT and if not both at least DOES THIS LOOK INFECTED, by 3 or 4 years. so hey do some research before u start pulling out bullshit like that. but hey watever.

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jacknife737 (July 24, 2007)

This is quite funny, although its probably some sort of marketing ploy.

(a side thought, it would be really fucked if he actually got deported for this)

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David_Arquette (July 24, 2007)

Isn't it kind of redundant to say that the minority leader in a Democrat-run House is a Republican?

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Someone (July 25, 2007)

No. Im Canadian, we have a completely different system, and that still makes sense to me. If the Democrats run the house then the minority are the Republicans. Therfore the minority leader would be Republican

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

good! get rid of him. good riddance I say!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

what a stupid band. damn.

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

ive been saying that since they boomed with Simple Plan and GC.

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theJUNGLEbrook (July 24, 2007)

did it really add anything to the article to say that the dude was a republican?
besides the obviously shady credibility of this poorly written article, that was just a stupid cheap shot to get all the "punks" riled up.

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Someone (July 25, 2007)

Ronald Reagan > Da Punx

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

oh please, please make this a reality!

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Someone (July 24, 2007)

Why? What effect will it have on you? Guy's Canadian anyway. You'll get the same exposure to Sum 41 as ever before.

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