Infamous Psycho Killer Clowns Labeled Domestic Terrorists (after they reveal themselves to be harmless Christians)
A lesson in 21st Century moral juxtaposition
What kind of world are we living in? More than ever, the world is awake to the Satanic influence penetrating the minds of our young ones, corrupting their innocence and luring them into dangerous cults. Conservatives are appalled by the widespread promotion of unnecessary abortions, grooming gangs, childhood sexual mutilation, Jeffery Epstein, organ harvesting, and more. What is the FBI doing about all of this? Nothing! It seems like they’re in on it. So what does it tell you when even the corrupt FBI feels the need to go after a street gang? They must be the most evil group in the world. Keep reading to find out how modern morality works.
Violent cult of roaming psychopaths?
You might never have heard of the Insane Clown Posse, but I bet you have. They’ve been around for decades, and surged to popular interest more than a few times. They are easy to make fun of, but they were taken seriously by the entertainment industry early on. Their music was banned from radio stations, MTV, and retail music stores for its extremist and disturbing lyrics. Here’s a sample:
Ahhh, make way for the lunatic
I wanna stop, I try, but I can't quit
I want necks — two or three, maybe four
To squeeze again, and again, and squeeze some more!
Pretty girly walkin' down the Boulevard
Miniskirt, she makes my nutsack hard
I don't know, what about my mental state?
They might find a bitch dead, floatin' in a lake!
Hey babe, jump in, toots. Hungry? Well, I got some nuts
Oh shit, she's suckin' on my wang
Then something goes, snap, bang
SQUEEZE bitch, ha ha, die!
Her neck long, skinny like a french fry
So I twist, turn, tangle then I strangle
'Cause I'm the Southwest Strangla
What kind of sick individual would listen to this? They’re an underground rap-rock group of “wicked clowns” who sing about chopping up hookers with axes, mutilating strangers for no reason, terrorizing crowds with a carnival of carnage, and exploring a mystical world of dark spirits. The FBI decided to investigate them around 2008:
…the FBI’s Salt Lake City office conducted a 14-month investigation into the horrorcore duo’s fanbase. The file identifies Juggalos and Juggalettes [that’s what Insane Clown Posse followers call themselves] as a “violent street gang” numbering in the thousands, whose members “sometimes paint their faces to look like wicked clowns” and “continue the dress by carrying small axes.”
Sounds horrific. Surely there have been dozens of arrests for violent assaults, drug dealing, robberies, and sexual crime among this gang, right? Thousands of axe-wielding, face-painted members roaming the country under the guise of music tours, destroying peaceful towns along the way? Why have we not heard about this? Investigations were ongoing. According to information received by MuckRock:
The Salt Lake City office recommended the closure of the case in May 2012 in a memo that grouped the Juggalos on a list with “Central American Criminal Groups” and “White Supremacist Gangs.”
But the leaders of the group were never charged with crimes. There was no conspiracy found. In fact, practically no criminality was found whatsoever. Is this an example of the FBI allowing the most obviously deranged, dangerous death cult to go free?
Professional wrestler comedians?
When they weren’t sneaking through America’s cities at night killing people (and apparently doing a fantastic job getting away with it, because the FBI found nothing on them!), or writing and recording highly popular music records, or going on tour with giant crowds of Juggalos, Violent J and Shaggy-2-Dope found the time to join professional wrestling federations and be seen by millions on live TV:
But that was in 1998, long before the FBI caught on to their criminal enterprise. Back then they were beloved, funny, misfit music stars rising in the ranks of the entertainment industry. But it wasn’t just the WWF, where questionable characters thrived behind the scenes. They were professional enough to be hired by WCW the next year as well:
Now if you know anything about wrestling you know that it’s fake, which means these guys were pretend fighting with other actors. Is this really the activity of a psychopathic pair of gang leaders with blood on their hands?
By now they now label themselves “The Most Hated Band in the World” on their website. Less than a year ago they reminisced about a PlayStation 2 video game they were featured on the cover of:
In this video you can see Violent J humorously explain why he hated an actual psychotic, deranged, drug-addicted fellow wrestlers he worked with, and then transitions the discussion into the purpose of life:
Me and my brother had a conversation two days ago, we were talking about what is the purpose of life, you know. And we both agreed that the purpose of life is to (I don't sit here and dog Newjack, but I'm doing it), um, in your time on this planet is to make as many people happy, or to be a positive thing for as many people as you can. That's the only way I think you can live your life and and make it worthwhile, right? It's to be a positive force, you know, making people happy. Being helpful to others you know what I'm saying? In some way whether it's your family or the people in your life, you know, your friends or whatever, just being a positive thing to people around you.
That almost sounds virtuous. What’s the deal with these guys? They still wear the makeup, do the music, and sell tours (see the first image, which has their current touring dates) after the FBI already investigated and called them a street gang? Why aren’t they “canceled” by the media? Why don’t we see viral videos on of face-painted Juggalos ripping the throats out of neighborhood pets and running around with axes?
What was the connection of Scott Hall, one of the most famous wrestlers of all time, and the ICP? Hall called himself “The Bad Guy” in his promos. He played a machismo-infused sexist scumbag, a dirty scoundrel. Did they have a crime connection? Why didn’t the FBI find that, at least?
And here we have an image from a recent show. Notice the three oversized crosses in the background, saturated with blood-red light. With such a deranged appearance and sickening lyrics, it’s obvious that they still worship Satan, right? They might be funny in their conversations or fit in with the sleazy wrestling world, but they’re still evil devil worshipers, surely!
Christian kayfabe satire masters?
It’s time for me to confess, dear reader. I’ve been a big fan of Insane Clown Posse since I was a kid, and I still am. You may never have guessed it, but let me explain.
Growing up dirt poor in a go-nowhere town in Canada, their music had me and my brothers howling with laughter every time we heard it. The over-the-top, politically incorrect, cartoonish lyrics were refreshingly creative and spoke to the misery of life in the margins of society. Not literally, but emotionally. We were never “Juggalos”, and hated the idea of painting our faces or going to an actual concert, but we “got it”. We understood that they hated the unfairness of life, and wanted to comically explore dark fantasies in order to let people relieve stress and have a laugh about how much it sucks to be an outsider. That’s why they have millions of fans from inner cities and backwoods, and sold their gimmick of psychopathic clowns as a way to invite the freaks and geeks of society into a brotherhood of acceptance and love. The “dark carnival” was a place where you could be a school dropout, an addict, a mental case, and still be welcomed with open arms—even if there was a rude joke to make you smile. It was dark humor. Or in wrestling terms, it was kayfabe (“fake” in pig Latin).
But then, in 2002, to my surprise, they revealed to the world that the great secret reason for their shtick. It was a trick they pulled on their own audience, which contained a spiritual message about the need for God:
The album's final track, "Thy Unveiling", revealed that the hidden message of their music was always to follow God and make it to Heaven. Ben Sisario criticizes the series' ending in the Rolling Stone Album Guide, writing "the whole thing was some bland divine plan [...] Is this man's final dis of God, or His of us?" Some critics perceived the spiritual element of the storyline as a joke or a stunt. Allmusic writer Bradley Torreano wrote that "Even if it is a joke, it isn't a funny one, or even a clever one."
This finally connected the dots for me. Of course! It was in our faces the whole time, mixing vulgar humor, dark fantasies, and cartoon hyperbole with deeper awareness of the finitude of life, the sorrow and commiseration of the unfortunate, the reality of Hell, and the family of lost sheep as the last resort. For as “evil” as their music was, they always subverted that by making it silly, but when they talked about the good it was always with a powerful sincerity. If you listen to the song above, you can sense that. It was not a stunt, but one of the most ambitious, audacious, and crazy schemes to promote God to the hopeless in modern history.
Scott Hall was a good man with a crappy life. He was an alcoholic because he killed a man in self defense when he was a kid, and lived a life of regret and anger ever since. He eventually found Jesus Christ. He liked Insane Clown Posse because they understood each other. The crosses at the ICP concerts are reminders of Jesus, and the sacrifice that people need to make if they want to find God. They don’t let you forget about the dark side, but they point toward the good.
Christians aren’t Ned Flanders
The universal stereotype that Christians are square, squeaky-clean, hypersensitive, coddled, blissfully unaware WASP rubes that are shocked at the slightest inappropriate joke has always bothered me. That was never my life, my family, or my experience. We had dark humor, cynical attitudes, far more aware of the injustice of reality and the hypocrisy of the squeaky-clean pretenders than even atheists. Christians are the realists.
What does a Christian believe, fundamentally? That every human being is so fucked up that they deserve to go to Hell. And guess what? Nothing can save you. Nothing but the intervention of God Himself. Now tell me that isn’t as dark as it gets.
And the world hated them…
The Wraith: Shangri-La debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Top Independent Albums chart. In 2003, the surround sound mix was named "Most Adventurous Mix" at the second annual Surround Music Awards. In The Great Rock Discography, Martin Charles Strong gave the album four out of ten stars. The album received two stars out of five in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide.
In September 2003, Insane Clown Posse was voted the worst band of any musical genre in Blender, with The Wraith: Shangri-La named as the group's worst album.
After the initial stigma in the early days, it’s clear that Insane Clown Posse clawed their way up the foodchain by sheer creativity and popularity, putting out more original, high quality music than almost any other rap group out there, and being ahead of their time in merging metal and rock with it. And they did it as two white guys from the slums. They became part of the mainstream in some fashion, and had respect. It was only after they revealed themselves to be believers in God that they were attacked and shunned anew. Psychopathic clowns were acceptable. God-fearing believers in trying to help the needy, raise awareness of mental health problems, and promote unity among the working class? That was evil.
It was only after they revealed themselves to be followers of God that the FBI decided to investigate them as an organized crime group. They were allowed to make money, sell tours, and sing about hyperviolence every day of the year without raising legal suspicion, but their continued presence as moral, hard-working entertainers in a debauched and sleazy industry was too much to tolerate.
The music group sued the FBI in 2012 to try to clear their name.
The report cited two assaults that occurred a year apart in two different states as examples of organized violent activity. It also warned, “most crimes committed by Juggalos are sporadic, disorganized, individualistic, and often involve simple assault, personal drug use and possession, petty theft, and vandalism” – a statement that should strike greater fear in ICP fans than in law enforcement officers.
In other words, Juggalos are not a gang. They are individuals that come from poor neighborhoods, and even their crimes are not even serious. The FBI targeted the band because it wasn’t evil.
Jeffery Epstein? Gets off the hook for decades, dodges prosecution, and then gets slipped out of prison under Donald Trump’s watch with a fake death. Mexican cartels? Open borders, endless human trafficking, and CIA support. Two Christian artists who found a crazy way to try to promote a better way of living to poor people? They get lumped in with the worst.
Personal note
If you’re disappointed that I enjoy(ed) such offensive music, or if you still don’t get the appeal of such dark satire, I get that. If I were to only discover them as an adult, I wouldn’t like it either. But I grew up listening to them, along with punk bands, a bunch of other metal groups, and alternative music, and they stood out as geniuses. Other rappers pretended to be gangsters, killers, tough guys, while lying about “keeping it real”, but these guys knew it was all fake and decided to go even further, parodying gangster culture and slowly pointing toward something strangely wholesome. They were never supposed to be popular, it just turns out a lot of people enjoyed the joke. Time has proven that they are more ethical and decent than the majority of pop stars and controlled media, and never let their success go to their head. You don’t have to like them, but I hope you understand the moral juxtaposition they represent.
I was barely aware of them. But that unveiling was epic! How did their fans respond? Did they stop putting out music after that?
I listened to a lady at church describing U2 as a Christian rock band. I was flummoxed. I wish I could've countered, that, "No, Ann, U2 is not a Christian rock band, now here's a Christian rock band! 😏 Excellent article!!