I wish though that one of the artists I have admired most over the last
ten years would have an epiphany and rethink his homophobia. His delivery is always big, strong and
proud……queer bashing should be beneath him. I hope one day he will rise above it and
maybe take his fans on the journey with him.
P
pathetic, outraging
Those fucking hypocrites are pretending that BK's
lyrics are first degree talk, whereas it is not.
Is there an association of soundbwoys that have
been murdered, slain, killed, etc... ina soundclash? They could also attack
Jamaican (I like how they stress Jamaican) artists for inciting murder.
When one says gimme five, does that mean that he
really wants your five fingers???
And how about an anti defamation league for the
inhabitants of Babylon, Irak? Babylon has been called names and its
inhabitants have the full right for reparations from herb-crazed JAMAICAN
artists
I strongly suggest that they also look for herb,
no, illegal drugs (call it like that and make it a frightening notion to the
gullible public)
And how can a felony committed in JA be
prosecuted in the UK (is there some Commonwealth thing that enables UK
citizens to sue former subjects?) Sounds like some imerialistic
attitude?
Do we take Pakistani warlords to court because
they veil their women in the "tribal" zones?
fuck them pressure groups
Guillaume Bougard
Bid
to arrest reggae star
Met Police urged to arrest Bounty
Killer
The Metropolitan Police is being urged to arrest Jamaican
reggae singer
Bounty Killer when he arrives in Britain later this week
for a concert at
the Stratford Rex in London next Saturday, 6
December.
The gay rights group OutRage! is calling for Bounty Killer
to be arrested on
charges of inciting the assault and murder of gay
people, and/or on charges
of causing harassment, alarm and distress. It
has written to Detective Chief
Inspector Clive Driscoll of New Scotland
Yard's hate crime unit, the
Diversity Directorate (copy of the letter
below).
Four Bounty Killer tracks call for gay people to be burned,
drowned, wiped
out, stoned and murdered (copy of the lyrics
below).
OutRage! is also requesting the police to warn the Stratford
Rex and the
concert booking agency Ticketmania they "may be guilty of
aiding and
abetting criminal offences by promoting and giving a platform
to Bounty
Killer, especially if he performs any of his violently
homophobic songs on 6
December".
OutRage! says: "If the Stratford
Rex and Ticketmania cannot give an
assurance that these violent, criminal
tracks will not be performed, we urge
the Metropolitan Police to insist
that Bounty Killer's concert is cancelled
and that all ticket sales are
halted".
The full text of OutRage!'s letter to the Metropolitan
Police, urging Bounty
Killer's arrest, follows
below.
Further information: Peter Tatchell OutRage! 0207 403
1790
Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll
07730 050 908
Text of the
OutRage! letter to the Metropolitan Police
Detective Chief Inspector
Clive Driscoll
Diversity Directorate
Metropolitan Police
New
Scotland Yard
London SW1
1 December 2003
Dear Clive
Driscoll,
Request for the arrest of Jamaican reggae singer Bounty
Killer on charges of
inciting the assault and murder of gay people,
and/or on charges of causing
harassment, alarm and
distress.
Further to my letter of 18 June 2003 requesting the
prosecution of reggae
artists who advocate homophobic violence and
murder:
One of those artists, the Jamaican reggae singer Bounty
Killer, will be in
Britain later this week to perform at a concert in
Birmingham on Friday 5
December and at another concert in London on
Saturday 6 December.
His London venue is the Straford Rex. Tickets
are being sold via Ticketmania
(0870 6000 888, www.ticketmania.co.uk).
The
lyrics of the four Bounty Killer songs listed below variously incite
the
murder, assault and harassment of gay people and are, at the very
least,
likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress - all of which are
criminal
offences.
Specifically, the four tracks call for gay
people to be burned, drowned,
wiped out, stoned and
murdered.
Bounty Killer cannot be allowed to come to this country and
spread his
message of homophobic violence with impunity.
1) On
behalf of the queer human rights group OutRage! I am urging
the
Metropolitan Police to arrest and charge Bounty Killer under either
Sections
4 or 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, the common law offence of
incitement to
violence and murder, or under Section 4 of the Offences
Against The Person
Act 1861.
2) We also request the police to warn
the Stratford Rex and Ticketmania they
may be guilty of aiding and
abetting criminal offences by promoting and
giving a platform to Bounty
Killer, especially if he performs any of his
violently homophobic songs
on 6 December.
3) If the Stratford Rex and Ticketmania cannot give an
assurance that these
violent, criminal tracks will not be performed, we
urge the Metropolitan
Police to insist that Bounty Killer's concert is
cancelled and that all
ticket sales are halted.
We reiterate: what
we object to is Bounty Killer's explicit encouragement of
violent attacks
on lesbians and gay men. Encouraging such attacks is a crime
under
British law. We expect the law to be upheld.
In a democratic society
people have a right to criticise homosexuality, but
they do not have a
right to encourage queer-bashing violence and murder.
If a singer
advocated similar violence against a racial minority, he would
be
immediately arrested and charged. We see no just reason why
incitements
to homophobic violence should be treated less seriously than
incitements to
racial violence.
The Metropolitan Police and Crown
Prosecution Service are making a mockery
of their commitment to tackle
anti-gay hate crimes. It is now five months
since we submitted our
dossier on these violent hate singers. So far, all we
have received is
lame excuses, especially from the CPS. What degree of
violence do these
singers have to incite before the Met and CPS will act?
How many queers
have to get bashed and murdered before the promoters of
homophobic
violence are prosecuted?
We expect action against Bounty Killer and
will settle for nothing less.
I hope you can reassure us that action
will be taken. The lesbian and gay
community is entitled to the full and
equal protection of the law. To date,
we have not got it. How much longer
must we wait for equality under the law?
Not beyond the end of this week,
I hope.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Tatchell
OutRage! -
campaigning for queer human rights
APPENDIX: Bounty Killer
lyrics
Artist: Bounty Killer with Baby Cham
Song: Another
Level
Album: Wow... The Story (Baby Cham)
Audio CD (October 24,
2000)
Original Release Date: October 24, 2000
Label: Artists Only
Records
ASIN: B000050HYI
Excerpt
Bun a fire pon a kuh pon
mister fagoty (Uh huh)
Cocky deh yah suh fi wheel unda Dorothy (Uh
huh)
Ears ah ben up and a wince under agony
Poop man fi drown a dat a
yawd man philosophy (Uh huh)
See more details at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050HYI/qid%3D1063315190/sr%3D11-1
/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-4047661-1710415
Artist:
Bounty Killer
Song: Look Good (track 7)
Album: Ghetto Dictionary: Art
of War
Audio CD (May 28, 2002)
Label: V.P. Records
ASIN:
B0000633G9
Excerpt
"wipe out the faggot with a pure laser
beam"
The album can be bought from Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000633G9/ref=m_art_li_8/002-
4047661-1710415?v=glance&s=music
It
can also be bought from the HMV website
To view Bounty Killer's
lyrics in full see:
http://raddy73.tripod.com/lyrics/bounty.html
Artist:
Bounty Killer
Song: Eagle & Di Hawk
Album: Next
Millennium
Audio CD (November 3, 1998)
Original Release Date: November
3, 1998
Label: Tvt
ASIN: B00000DF6P
Excerpt
Boo away
some battyman nuh waan dem aroun mi
Waan see mi dead so dem can get fi
moan mi
Battyman start come a stage show fi stone wi
Mek dem know a di
eagle and the hawk dem surround wi
Well bwoy like a mi nuh battyman nah
guh crown mi
Media and the press a try dem best fi drown wi
Cancel mi
visa but dat still nuh ground mi
Mek dem know a di eagle and di hawk dem
surround wi
The soundclip available for download from the Amazon
website is the
homophobic verse.
See more details at
Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000DF6P/002-4047661-1710415
?v=glance#product-details
Artist:
Bounty Killer
Song: Mr. Wanna Be
Album: 5th Element
Audio CD
(October 19, 1999)
Original Release Date: October 19, 1999
Label:
Tvt
ASIN: B00000JZ26
Excerpt
Unu wanna be me!
Weh tek
dem insect
True mi tek Spring Break, si dem a impress
Hear this likkle
punk guh sing a battyman concept
Seh him hood Deanie, a deh suh mi
object
And him guh pon Mirage, and guh dis-respect
bout dem box man a
foreign dem nuh tek nuh bet yet
Tell dem if dem do dat World War woulda
re-flex
Yuh lef' Clarendon and come drop ina wasp nest
with Guerilla
warfare yuh caught mi interest
War mi start dat by reservation and
request
To kill dis yah fool, to me dat is no stress
Murder dem fast
just like a Federal Express
And mi run wild west
The soundclip
available for download from the Amazon website is the
homophobic
verse.
See more details at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JZ26/ref=m_art_li_5/002-
4047661-1710415?v=glance&s=music
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