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TIL in 2009, My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero had his home searched, his wife interviewed and was put on the FBI watchlist after releasing a song called “I Am Going to Kill the President of the United States of America” by his band Leathermouth. He was banned from performing it (but did).

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