Boycott Sir Bob and saint Bono's gig

international | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis

Thursday June 02, 2005 01:36

by paul o toole

Controlling dissent.

Bono's answer to a question about his friend Tony Blairs attack and murder of 100,000 Iraqi people at the Meteor awards in dublin last year...anyone can make a mistake....

You could not pick two better people to divert the gullable public away from the real issues,and soothe everyones concience at the same time-that is those few with a concience, by getting them to part with a few euro and go home, back to their overfed lives for another 20 years.
These two intelligent men know exactly where the problem lies with 'poor' Africa.

Firstly- Africa is the second ritchest nation in the world per capita of population-it is by no means poor and these liars (b'n'b)know it but continnually refer to the problems in Africa as one of poverty.
Secondly-supporting this gig is not going to end world poverty or even go one inch twoards cancelling the crippling debts that the white world has against impoverished nations such as Africa - the debts were part of a system deliberately put there by our 'democracies' to achieve the result it has attained.
The horrible truth is that in their respective positions so much could have been achieved by our two Irish boys. But if Michael Powell (son of Colon) controls the invisible strings on Bono's career through the FAA,clear-channel,MCD, and controlled ownership of most of the major amphitheatres across the USA , Its easy to see why he (Bono) wont speak out against the policies which cause this deliberately inflicted state of impoverishment because his carreer might be damaged..
Any artist(s) who spoke out against Bush's war was dropped from the playlists of clearchannels 14,000 fm.major hub stations in the USA.
Enjoy the propaganda gig if you go, but know one thing-your efforts would be better served if you went to the g8 summit to protest, instead of being lullabyed back to sleep again for twenty more years.

Dont be surprised if Tony Bliar shows up and makes an appearance at the gig, hell, he might even play bono's guitar.