Posted on 08/08/2022 11:42:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Roger Waters has clarified some of the messaging presented on his current This Is Not a Drill Tour, which includes an image of President Joe Biden with the words "War Criminal" and "just getting started ..." projected to the audience.
He addressed the image during an interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish, saying that President Biden is "fueling the fire in Ukraine."
He added: "That is a huge crime. Why won't the United States of America encourage Zelenskyy, the President [of Ukraine] to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that's killing — we don't know how many Ukrainians and Russians.
"This war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border – which they promised they wouldn’t do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the U.S.S.R. from the whole of Eastern Europe," he added. Waters later offered a comparison: "Try to figure out what the United States would do if the Chinese were putting nuclear armed missiles into Mexico and Canada."
Waters, who has also previously criticized former President Donald Trump, begins his current concerts with a typescript message displayed to the audience: "If you’re one of those 'I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics' people, you might do well to xxxx off to the bar right now."
He says the message "sets a few things straight" at the top of the show, for both longtime fans and newer ones.
"I’ve only got one message: 'Two strangers passing in the street / By chance two passing glances meet / And I am you and what I see is me,'" he said to CNN, referencing lyrics from Pink Floyd's "Echoes." "That is my message and that was on Meddle, which was in 1970 – and basically my message hasn’t changed: I recognize your humanity but I recognize all the Russians and the Chinese and the Ukrainians and the Yemenis and the Palestinians."
As Waters elaborated, the text is not meant to deter people from attending his shows, but rather to encourage a sense of camaraderie amongst his audience members.
"There is such a great feeling of communication in that room between me and the audience," he said, "and between us combined, with all of our brothers and sisters all over the rest of the world, irrespective of who they are, where they live, their ethnicity, their religion, their nationality, or anything else — because if This Is Not a Drill has a message, it is that we have to communicate one with the other."
Syd went crazy having to be around Roger?
Ha! Maybe!
And Roger also treated Rick Wright like crap as well, fired him during The Wall sessions.
Coming to pay-per-view: FJB and Roger armed with tactical melon ballers, stripped naked and lubed up, inside a steel cage; two go in, the King of the World exits.
I think it would be easier to make a pedophile and child-endangerment charge stick.
Waters - “Why won’t the United States of America encourage Zelenskyy, the President [of Ukraine] to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that’s killing — we don’t know how many Ukrainians and Russians.”
Bwahahahaha!
Who invaded who!? Why doesn’t America encourage the aggressor(Putin) to WITHDRAW UNCONDITIONALLY!!! Putin CHOOSES an unprovoked unlawful invasion into a sovereign country.
Did Ukraine invade Russia? The only Russians being killed are the useful idiots called Russian soldiers and separatist pawns Putin uses for his personal ambition... his conquest of Ukraine!
Why did Putin need to invade Ukraine and crush dozens of Ukraine cities, kill citizens, destroy families, rape, loot, and displace millions of Ukrainians in order to save ‘Donesk and Luhansk’ from a few tattooed hooligan NAZI’s and liberate the poor oppressed Russian speaking separatists? He might as well use the same pretense to invade all enclaves of ethnic Russians in Europe! Instead of colluding with Putin for power, appointments and land grabs in the Donbass... and becoming his co-conspirator bitches in creating fake Ukraine NAZI oppression, ethnic Russian cleansing propaganda and claiming Kiev is indiscriminately offing ethnic Russian Ukrainians, the separatists could easily immigrate to Russia if they hate Kiev so much and would rather live under a KGB tyrant and salute Stalin! Why doesn’t Putin provide these Donbass crybabies with passage to Russia?? Putin could have just given these whining separatists a free pass to citizenship into Russia instead of invading Ukraine. Why invade when their was no real pretense or necessity to invade? Because it’s not about hunting Nazi’s, saving anyone or liberation... it’s an invasion by choice to steal Ukraine territory. It’s about Putin’s Stalinist like genocide against ethnic Ukraine people, the annexing of Ukraine territory into the Russian Federation and his plan to subjugate ethnic Ukraine peoples under ‘Soviet’ style KGB rule to thin the herd. The Donbass Donesk/Luhansk is Ukraine land and Putin has no claim to it nor can he justify invading Ukraine on behalf of the separatists either! He invades Ukraine to steal its land, using the separatists as pawns and claiming he is liberating them as his excuse. That was his entire plan since 2014!
It was Putin’s 2014 meddling in Ukraine Donbas regions using Russian insurgents and agitators to create a diversion so Putin can invade Crimea! Putin encouraging the separatist to create breakaway republics that Putin wanted as a catalyst for his ambitions/plans since he first became president in 2000... to conquer all of Ukraine. NATO had nothing to do with it! But the zombies and clapping seals lapped the Putin BS up, that Russia was defending its security. LOL!
What a load of crap. Putin wants Ukraine under its control. To replace Kiev with Putin puppets and use Ukraine as a vassal/client state for Kremlin interests... no different than the US was using Kiev between 2014-2019, then president Petro Poroshenko, as a money laundering state for political graft.
Waters is very pro-palestinian.
Marko
I have see one or two of his shows, maybe back in the 90’s early 2000’s the production and sound quality were excellent.
I remember vaguely a screed against something, and I remember thinking dude STFU and play some music.
The people around me seemed to be thinking the same thing, but
this could easily be just be perception of the event as it is all ummagumma up’d in my head still
I think that’s too nice a way of putting it. He doesn’t love Palestinians, he just hates Jews/Israelis. Can you name one thing he did for Palestinians, that wasn’t just bashing Jews/Israelis? [Which I don’t believe helps Palestinians one bit]
Because Roger Waters calls every US President a war criminal. This is only news because the media expects Waters to exempt democrats and he didn’t.
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Roger Waters.. an irrelevant artist. Pink Floyd did far better without him.
Not really. Waters pretty much wrote every significant PF song. Gilmour’s wife wrote the songs on the post-Waters PF albums.
As I stated.. Pink Floyd did far better without him.
Well.....he’s right about this. It is the warmongers in the US and UK who are forbidding their sock puppet Zelensky to even discuss peace with the Russians.
I can’t stand them, but it sounds like the only good songs they had were written by S. Barrett.
Probably my favorite PF song is “Wot’s Uh The Deal?”, love Gilmour’s vocals on it, but it was written by Roger.
IMHO Animals was their best album.
Written by Waters.
Waters also wrote all of the songs on Dark Side of the Moon. It was on the Billboard charts for the longest duration EVER.
491 weeks.
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