Truth to Power

That’s what ya get for trying to be punk, Bell Canada

Holocaust song title has firm squirming

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s biggest phone company has apologized after a punk rock reference to the Holocaust appeared on billboard advertisements for its cellphones.

The ads for Bell Canada’s Solo discount service showed a young woman decked out in flashy punk rock attire, with a button that reads “Belsen was a gas” – the controversial title of a song by the Sex Pistols, and a reference to Nazi Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.</em>


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