Roger Waters letter to Jon Bon Jovi

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Roger Waters to Jon Bon Jovi: “You stand shoulder to shoulder with the settler who burned the baby”


Letter to the pop group Bon Jovi:



Dear Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, and Tico Torres,

Often in the past I have written detailed, and sometimes even persuasive, letters to colleagues in the music business, encouraging them not to give succor to the Israeli government’s apartheid policies by performing in Israel. Having read Jon’s comments last week in Yedioth Ahronoth, I won’t waste my time drawing parallels with Apartheid South Africa and the moral stand that so many artists took then and that thousands are taking now in the face of decades of Israeli oppression of Palestinians.

So the die is cast, you are determined to proceed with your gig in Tel Aviv on October 3. You are making your stand.

You stand shoulder to shoulder

With the settler who burned the baby

With the bulldozer driver who crushed Rachel Corrie

With the soldier who shot the soccer player’s feet to bits

With the sailor who shelled the boys on the beach

With the sniper who killed the kid in the green shirt

And the one who emptied his clip into the 13-year-old girl

And the Minister of Justice who called for genocide

You had a chance to stand

On the side of justice

With the pilot who refused to bomb refugee camps

With the teenager who chose eight prison terms over army service

With the prisoner who fasted for 266 days until freedom

With the doctor banned from entry for saving lives

With the farmer who was cut down marching to the wall

With the legless child growing up in the rubble

And the 550 others who won’t grow up at all

Because of the missiles and tank shells and bullets we sent

The dead can’t remind you of the crimes you’ve ignored. But, lest we forget, “To stand by silent and indifferent is the greatest crime of all.”

Roger Waters

I really hope that Waters has never done a gig in the USA then, because they aren't that good either in how they go about treating others or maybe his memory is not as good at it was

 


Roger Waters is a boring arsehole who has made his living since 1979 repeating the atrocious wank-rock contraption which was the worst record that post Syd Floyd mate
TBF Amused to Death was pretty good...and you can't blame him for touring The Wall when Gilmour took the band name, the songs and the concepts and hoovered up the money.

Now that the retirement fund has been topped up, Gilmour is content to noodle away on dull as fuck solo albums.
 
Assad has killed more civilians in 12 months than Israel has in 50 years.

Don't see the boring bastard writing any letters to Putin.
 
TBF Amused to Death was pretty good...and you can't blame him for touring The Wall when Gilmour took the band name, the songs and the concepts and hoovered up the money.

Now that the retirement fund has been topped up, Gilmour is content to noodle away on dull as fuck solo albums.

Waters will have made a fortune from the Gilmour-floyd years as well

100% true. He still stands like a colossus over Jon Bon Jovi mind

obviously - still a bell whiff though
 
Waters will have made a fortune from the Gilmour-floyd years as well
As writer of most of the songs, it's only fair. As profits from the company he will have made nothing because a new Floyd company was set up after he left. This would have meant that profits from tours and merchandise went straight to Mason and Gilmour as Wright was still an employee after he rejoined and only got his cut post- Division Bell.
 
He's playing a gig in Israel, big f***ing deal. Waters has gigged in Russia, ergo he stands shoulder to shoulder with Assad barrel bombing civilians and the persecution of gays.

This.

He's done some great things in his time...but one dictator is much the same as another. He's more than happy to pick up the dollar while telling us that the US is to blame for much of the trouble in the world.
 
What about all the average Israelis who just want to go to see Bon Jovi? Why should they be punished because their leaders are bellend? There's blame on both sides.

He's happy to play in Russia. Homosexuals have a better life in Israel than Russia. That's even before we get to any other of Russia's human rights problems.
 

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