Roger Waters under criminal probe over anti-Nazi satire

Via RT

Pink Floyd co-founder performed at a concert dressed in a garb resembling an SS uniform © Twitter

German police have launched a criminal investigation into English rock legend and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters on suspicion of glorifying Nazism during two concerts in Berlin. The musician has insisted the performance was in opposition to fascism.

On Friday, in a statement quoted by several media outlets, the Berlin police said that Waters was suspected of inciting hatred, and that the probe was centered on his performances on May 17 and 18 in the German capital.

In footage posted on social media, the musician can be seen wearing a leather trench coat resembling a Nazi uniform with two crossed hammers and a red armband. He then proceeds to take a mock gun and shoot into the crowd.

“The context of the clothing worn is deemed capable of approving, glorifying or justifying the violent and arbitrary rule of the Nazi regime in a manner that violates the dignity of the victims and thereby disrupts public peace,” the police said.

Waters’ performance was apparently in reference to the film “the Wall,” an adaptation of the eponymous 1979 Pink Floyd album. The rock star appears as the album’s protagonist who hallucinates being a fascist dictator addressing a Nazi rally.

Waters’ concerts also featured a pig-shaped balloon floating in the air, with a logo of the Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems and the Star of David. The show also involved showing the names of people fading in on the screen, including Anne Frank, a Jewish diarist who died in a Nazi concentration camp, and Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering an Israeli military operation in May 2022.

The Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon suggested that Waters wanted to compare Israel to the Nazis, describing the musician as “one of the biggest Jew haters of our time.”

On Friday, the musician addressed the controversy, writing on Twitter that he had become a target of “bad faith attacks” from those who disagreed with his political views.

“The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice and bigotry in all its forms”, he said, adding that he had spent his entire life speaking out “against authoritarianism and oppression.” (RT)

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Booger
Booger

Ridiculous

goat
goat

My first thought as well. But any excuse will do, and the optics plays well for the unsuspecting. He is after all a thought criminal in other more subversive ways that worries the fascist PTB much more than imitating said fascist.

Booger
Booger

It’s been part of the act for what 40 years now. It’s always been an Anti NAZI message regardles of how you view the ‘National Socialist German Workers Party”.

goat
goat

Yes it has. No matter what side of the divide the NAZIs were on.

Mongo Thrapwortle
Mongo Thrapwortle

Controlled opposition, theatre.

MrLiberty

Maybe somebody should send these idiots a copy of the movie “The Wall.” Pretty clear where he stands…in addition to his father being killed by the Germans.

TCS
TCS

If he dressed like a tranny no one would have even given it a 2nd thought. Oh, the irony. It stings.

Anonymous
Anonymous

So the Germans have re-adopted Nazism that is thinly disguised as anti-Nazism.

TCS
TCS

…and they call themselves AntiFa…short for anti fascist. And there you have it all wrapped up with a nice little black and red bow!

Shoot ’em all in the mouth with a flare gun.

Pogrom
Pogrom

He has always made his views clear. The only difference is usually it was the right that he attacked. The moment he he turned his sights on the left he was in trouble, the fact that he is calling out Israel is what pushed it over the edge for them. I love Waters music, have never cared for his politics. The fact that he has run afoul of the Berg is just poetic. They will likely destroy him.

zappalives
zappalives

CUCK german democrats do the darnest things.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

Roger Water’s father was a conscientious objector in WWII but later recanted and served as an officer in the British Army. He was killed fighting the Nazis at Anzio, Italy in 1944. Roger never knew his father. Nazi, indeed.

Obbledy
Obbledy

So,if you say something about a certain group of people and their impingement on society for certain things,and those things happen to YOU,doesn’t that prove you correct?????

Euddie
Euddie

Jeebus people are gullible.

He was two tasking during his performances.
He was giving a show while auditioning to be the next James Bond villain.

World War Zero
World War Zero

The Holocaust Industry is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ziocorp. Mr. Waters has appropriated their intellectual property without a professionally negotiated contract and HIZC-NAZI performance license.

Much like his/Pink’s father in The Wall, Raj must be made a lesson of. Hand him that Brit Army field telephone… lawyers will be ringing it soon.

As for the rest of you lot, get back to work making mud bricks for Pharaoh’s protective wall against the stench of unchoseness.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf

I mean fuck, Waters has only done that routine since 1979 when the Wall came out. I saw that same concert above three times in L.A. and it was bar none, the best fucken show ever for a live performance.

ZFG, out.

P.S. We are all waiting for the worms now.

TCS
TCS

Right up there with ZZ Top’s Deguelo tour or Ozzy biting the head off a bat. Epic.

Tainan
Tainan

“…is deemed capable.” Silly wabbits, the gov’t will determine
what your intent was. Now shut up.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

I remember the motto of many of the NYCity brats in my law school class …’Iit’s never good enough, it’s never right’ …

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/judea-declares-war-on-roger-waters/

morongobill
morongobill

Are there any queers in the theater tonight? Get them up against the wall.

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