Police allow Bounty Killer to play London
November 18th, 2008
The Metropolitan Police are facing criticism from gay rights groups by allowing homophobic dancehall singer Bounty Killer to play a concert in London.
The Met Police have previously said that no ‘murder music’ singer would be allowed to perform unless they sign the Reggae Compassionate Act (RCA) whereby singers promise to not incite homophobic hatred and violence. Bounty Killer refuses to sign RCA agreement, and yet the police have approved his concert in East London next week.
Bounty Killer – who performed on No Doubt’s Hey Baby – advocates the murder of homosexual people on several of his songs.
In their defence, the police stress that Bounty Killer will not be permitted to perform songs that incite homophobic violence.
“Big deal,” responded Peter Tatchell of the gay human rights group OutRage!, coordinator of the worldwide Stop Murder Music campaign.
“A white racist singer who advocated killing black people would not be allowed to perform anywhere in London, even if he agreed to not incite the killing of black people at his concert. The police would argue that any stage performance by a white racist singer would risk public disorder and damage community cohesion. They would ban him, full stop.
“Yet when it comes to straight homophobic singers who urge the murder of gay people, the police adopt a softer stance. They let the concert go ahead. It’s bare-faced hypocrisy.
“I am fed up with the phoney diversity and equality claims from the Met Police. When the chips are down, their commitment to oppose homophobia means little or nothing.
“Police claims that they are cracking down on homophobic hate crimes now look like a public relations stunt at the expense of the lesbian and gay community.
“Our campaign is in solidarity with black lesbian and gay people in Jamaica and the Caribbean who suffer nightmarish levels of homophobic violence. We are acting at their request and in support of their right to live their lives free of the threat of violence.”
In March 2008, police in Bradford and Birmingham cancelled Bounty Killer’s gigs, saying that they would have undermined good community relations.
The campaign to cancel Bounty Killer’s concerts in the UK is supported by the Jamaican gay rights movement, J-Flag, and the Caribbean-wide C-Flag coalition of black gay and straight human rights organisations. They are demanding an end to murder music in the Caribbean and worldwide.
Why is this allowed?
Freedom of speach?
Then I should be free to call for blacks, jews and women to be killed.
Anon ∼ November 27th, 2008 4:05 pmthats right freedom of speach bounty killer have never tell anyone or sit a group down and plan to kill guys, he sing about the act of it is wrong which is writen in king james bible.
john ∼ December 3rd, 2008 2:57 amI dont see why banned him from the uk because of his song and other rapper from the usa sing voilence song i dont see no one stopping there show.
its the people should say they dont want to hear his song unless they are clean not some group.
How about when england slave the people kill and rape sell and buy the people in jamaica and the rest of the world join them.