Somehow in the midst of all the excitement of yesterday’s historically exciting Super Bowl, we managed to miss this Very Important Tweet from former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters:
A note from Roger:
THIS IS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP THIS LATEST USG INSANITY, LEAVE THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE ALONE. THEY HAVE A REAL DEMOCRACY, STOP TRYING TO DESTROY IT SO THE 1% CAN PLUNDER THEIR OIL.
US HANDS OFF #VENEZUELA! #NICOLASMADURO #STOPTRUMPSCOUPINVENEZUELA pic.twitter.com/AFi89IGcgV
— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 3, 2019
That certainly is a take. An offensively, horrifically awful one. And it’s earning him all kinds of righteous indignation:
Don't help to put another brick in the wall of the dictatorship. We are struggling to be free. We are tearing down the wall! ??
— Humberto Sardi (@Humberto_Sardi) February 4, 2019
A note for Roger: eat dick and stop defending third world dictators.
Sincnerely,
a Venezuelan.— Ｄｒｏｓｓ (@eldiariodedross) February 4, 2019
The only 1% here is the 1% of intelligence you have. Stop your speech and see it yourself, go to Venezuela and see what’s happening there. It is easy to be a communist lover with the pockets full of money.
— Albi De Abreu (@AlbiDeAbreu) February 4, 2019
Hello Roger,
We grew up with your music.
This message comes with love and respect:You are wrong about what’s happening. You have Venezuelan friends. We share them too.
Please inform yourself & don’t support a dictatorship.
✌?we grew up in it
Peace— La Vida Boheme (@vidaboheme) February 4, 2019
Sorry I have admired your music for years, I am a Venezuelan artist and you have No Clue of what you’re talking about. My people deserve to be Free have Food Medicine, Water and so much more that you take for granted every day .This is about Freedom and Justice
— Elisa Rego (@ElisaRego) February 4, 2019
Hey Roger! Don't get stupidly involved in this. Just because you don't like US policies of Trump doesn't means you are choosing the right side. You better wonder why you have not toured the Wall in Venezuela on all these decades…
— Gerardo Martinez (@timgmap) February 4, 2019
Extremely disappointing! I’ve been big fan of you guys. This is not about Trump; this is about thousands of children dead by starvation, no medicines , unarmed students killed, and protestants, laborers, jails full of tortured and killed, just because they think different. Sad!!
— Carlos Mata (@carlosmatareal) February 4, 2019
I did not expect this from you. Venezuela has been suffering for the past 20years. We need help as we are too tired and weak to fight against dictatorship.. they’re killing us! Small children and vulnerable population die everyday from hunger or lack of medicines pic.twitter.com/QeBwjjio9T
— Denisse Lara (@dnlara) February 4, 2019
STOP RUINING YOUR CAREER, STUPID PRICK! VENEZUELA IS A SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP, PEOPLE ARE DYING THERE BECAUSE OF MADURO!
— Caneta Desesquerdizadora (@Desesquerdizada) February 4, 2019
When you parrot Venezuelan regime propaganda, you become an ally of Venezuela's dictatorship.
That's true whether or not that's what you intend to do.
It's true whether or not you realize it's what you're doing.
— Caracas Chronicles (@CaracasChron) February 4, 2019
Roger Waters supports FAES, Maduro's death squads.
It's likely he doesn't realize that. But that's neither here nor there.
As a matter of plain fact, Roger Waters supports death squads.
— Caracas Chronicles (@CaracasChron) February 4, 2019
Roger Waters supports the torture chambers SEBIN runs under Plaza Venezuela, (La Tumba.)
He supports the imprisonment of political dissidents in El Helicoide.
It's likely he's never heard of SEBIN, or La Tumba, or El Helicoide.
It doesn't matter. He still supports them.
— Caracas Chronicles (@CaracasChron) February 4, 2019
I’m crying. My biggest music idol just defended the government who ruined my country and my family, who forced me to run away to aspire to a decent quality of life. Roger, you have no clue about what’s happening in Venezuela, you don’t know our laws, you don’t know how miserable
— Danna? (@raticorns) February 4, 2019
the situation is. This is not a left vs. right issue. People are dying of hunger, we have the biggest inflation of the world, lack of medicines, the highest crime rates in Latin America. According to our constitution (article 223 and 333) Guaidó is the president in charge until
— Danna? (@raticorns) February 4, 2019
we can have elections. Most of the opposition is not even right-wing, even the Venezuelan democratic left doesn’t support Maduro, he lead us to our worst crisis in history. Maduro tried to dissolve the assembly we voted for, which was an opposition majority, with fraudulent
— Danna? (@raticorns) February 4, 2019
Elections for a new constituent assembly, he skipped parts of the legal process to do it and also didn’t let the opposition participate. Those are not democratic elections. Venezuela is not a democracy. I’m not a Trump supporter by any means, i don’t agree with most of his
— Danna? (@raticorns) February 4, 2019
policies. But right now, we need all the possible help, Maduro doesn’t want to leave the power and he sent the military to suppress the protests against him, hundreds of students were murdered, arrested and tortured. We need all the possible international help.
— Danna? (@raticorns) February 4, 2019
I understand that you don’t like trump, I understand his policies and believes are, most of the time cuestionable and wrong. But this is not about US, this is not about you, is about us needing help.
— Danna? (@raticorns) February 4, 2019
There’s plenty more where that came from. And all of it is deserved.
We’ll say this much for him, though: At least he didn’t accuse the Jews of orchestrating the tumult in Venezuela. So … progress!
And to think Syd Barrett is considered the most insane member of Pink Floyd. https://t.co/HFpcMwRPk9
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) February 4, 2019
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