Re: Bid to arrest reggae star

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> 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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