Posted on 11/11/2017 9:57:37 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
In January 2012, Bono arrived in Timbuktu on a private jet with “ONE” emblazoned on the side, accompanied by his wife, daughters, the designer Renzo Rossi and several others.
He had come to the historic city in Mali for a festival celebrating the music of the famous Tuareg tribe. On the night of the event, Bono and his entourage were placed on a small bleacher surrounded by, yet separated from, the thousands of local people via metal traffic barricades and a dozen heavily armed men. Toward the end of the evening, a woman announced that “BONE-no from Youtube” was in attendance. Later, the U2 frontman appeared on stage screaming, “We are brothers here!” and “Music is stronger than war!” before trying to sing in French in front of a nonplussed crowd. Then he exited the event, boarded his jet and flew back to the country’s capital, Bamako.
The next morning, the nomadic Tuaregs, who inhabit the north of Mali and the Sahara, told government ministers who’d arrived for the festival that they would once again be taking up arms to revolt against the regime. Three months later, Al Qaeda usurped the Tuareg rebellion and started raping women, chopping off limbs and burning libraries full of centuries-old books, but there was scant mention of Mali in the western press.
I wondered why Bono would keep quiet when one word from him would place this humanitarian disaster front and center in the media. If he said something maybe people would pay attention. A magazine I was working with said to make some calls.
Six months after Bono’s visit to Mali, I posited this to a rep for One.
“Bono was on a private family vacation and One doesn’t get involved in politics,” a rep for the organization told me.
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Yep, no surprises here. So many hypocrites (and crooks and pedophiles), so little time to see any comeuppance.
Bono is a sanctimonious loudmouth whose music sucks. What a con man.
Not to mention Bono hides his wealth in low to tax free havens while lecturing America and the west to pony up more and more taxpayer money to help the poor of the rest of the world...
How humanitarian could he and his family possibly be? They got to see him after all.
Yes, it would be interesting to see a comparison between the amount the Clinton Foundation spent on Haiti and how much it spends annually to maintain Hillary’s drinking habit.
When it's a lefty icon, the hard questions are delivered as fast as molasses.
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