Posted on 04/16/2023 2:45:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Roger Waters says he's heading to Frankfurt, Germany, despite the local authority’s attempt to ban his concert.
The Pink Floyd legend's Frankfurt tour stop, planned for May 23, was canceled by the city council amid accusations that Waters is antisemitic. He’d called the move “unjustifiable” and last month said he’d instructed his lawyers to fight the cancellation, along with another in Munich on May 21.
After noting that the deadline for the city to respond to his interim injunction had passed, Waters' new message continued: “Not that it matters much! We’re coming anyway! Because human rights matter! Because free speech matters!” Referring to the Nazi attacks on Jews across Germany on Nov. 9, 1938, it added: “We remember Kristallnacht! Like Sophie Scholl our fathers stood with those 3,000 Jewish men, and today we stand with the Palestinians!” Noting a new date, the message ended: “We’re coming to Frankfurt on the 28th of May!”
At the time of the cancellations Waters issued a statement, condemning them as “unconstitutional, without justification and based upon the false accusation that Roger Waters is antisemitic, which he is not.” His position was later supported in a petition to have the shows reinstated, signed by a wide range of artists including Nick Mason, Eric Clapton and Tom Morello.
Personally, I would like to see him get a taste of his own medicine. I am with you on this, but bastards like him should be fed their own medicine at least once.
Manson, more of a generic fascist.
Statin’s wife was Jewish, so there was at least one he got along with.
I thought he had her killed.
A degree in literature? So you are a barista?
Syr Barret’s psychological problems and drug addiction mostly
Probably so, but I don’t know the details.
Rogers wants performers to not play in Israel. He is superior to everyone, I guess. But come after him....
Do not let him play.
Who appointed Rogers god? F him.
He is a disgusting communist loon.
who is Statin?
who is Syr Barret?
Syd Barrett.
Typo.
Original member of Pink Floyd. Original song writer.
oh, that guy
You claim that he only has a problem with Israel because of their policies.
So are you going to tell me that Israel is the ONLY country that has done something bad in the last 40 years, or at least they have acted the WORST of any country in the last 40 years.
Because Roger Waters focuses his attention on Israel and their evil ways.
He doesn't like how Israel treats the Palestinians. Fair enough. Except in Israe3l Palestians are in the Knesset. In other countries in the Middles East, such as Saudi Arabia, only Muslims are allowed to be in their government, and have full rights. Other religions can't bring ion their holy books, or practice openly. And have a risky life. In Dubai, Qatar etc, Filipino, Indian, and other workers can be murdered, no investigation.
How come Waters has no problem with this?
There are countries that kill, imprison, commit violence against Christian. Countries like Lebanon had a Christian majority, and active violence have made them a minority. Where did Waters say anything against Lebanon, etc.?
Roger Waters has no problem with murders or human rights abuse against Christians. Well, maybe if a Jew did it.
What about China? China has more than a million Muslims imprisoned and has been commiting genocide against them. I dare you to find the most anti-Israel source you can and compare the number of Muslims they say were harmed by Israel and compare it with the number harmed by China. It's a tiny fraction. But Roger Waters doesn't make an issue about this? I don't understand.
Take Myanmar. Myanmar has been persecuting their Muslims much harsher than Israel ever did. Look it up. Why doesn't Waters have a problem with that?
And Saudi Arabia trying to slaughter and starver Yemenis? There are other countries that persecute Muslims, but somehow Waters only cares about Jews doing it?
What about all kinds of other human rights, and genocides?
Where was Waters on Hutus killing Tutsis in Rwanda?
What about Tamils in Sri Lanka?
What about Pol Pot's killing fields?
What about Idi Amin?
What about Darfur?
What about South Sudan?
What about the Congo?
What about the years of Apartheid in South Africa?
You claim that Roger Waters is just a simple anti-Israeli, who is unfairly blamed as an anti-Semite?
Can you explain how the ONLY people in the world he cares about are people harmed by Israelis? There are other demonstrably worse than what Israel does. China and Myanmar are treating a larger number of Muslims, in a worse fashion. But he doesn't go around yammering about that.
How come he only cares when Jews are doing something bad?
Do you see how I don't think your contentions compute?
All i know is that, at least on their four “smash” albums of the 70’s, it always seemed to me that their work consisted mostly of David Gilmour riding to rescue the song from drowning in Waters’ pretentious, lugubrious lyrics.
Who wants to listen to Waters now that there’s no one to pull him back from the brink?
The spellcheck guy.
Which wife? I don't believe either of his wives were Jewish.
He was an evil dictator that tried to kill the LDL people. And he had a lot of bad side effects.
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