18.11.2011
Artists give away profit from blood
money
–
will
In recent
years we have read about one dictator, terrorist or financial fraudster after
the other whose assets in
According to
www.suite101.com Beyonce announced
on
For the same
reasons as Ms. Furtado, Mariah Carey has, according
to Suite101, informed her readers that she will donate all proceeds from one of
her new songs; “Save the day”, this as a response to the allegations that she
has received some $ 1 million in performance fee after entertaining one of
Colonel Gaddafi's sons with four songs during a party at St. Barts in 2008.
On
On March 10
2011 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) announced that he will donate his
performance fee received from this family after having performed a private
concert during the 2005 Venice Film festival, of which he allegedly received
some $ 2 mill.
Carey herself
wrote on her website, attempting to explain and justify her actions, that:
“I was naïve and unaware of who I was booked
to perform for. I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this
mess. Going forward, this is a lesson for all artists to learn from. We need to
be more aware and take more responsibility regardless of who books our shows.
Ultimately we as artists are to be held accountable.”[2]
On February
28 2011 www.rollingstone.com reported that:
“Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Usher and 50 Cent are facing
industry calls to give back the money they earned performing at lavish parties
thrown by family members of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi. «If it were me,
it would go to charity», says Buck Williams, agent for R.E.M.
and Widespread Panic. Adds David T. Viecelli, agent
for Arcade Fire; «Hopefully donate it to a charity that somehow assists some of
the people who have suffered at the hands of that regime».”
On March 17
2011 www.rollingout.com reported that:
“Entertainers like 50 Cent are not just
caving in to political pressure for accepting millions to perform for Libyan
dictator Moammar Gaddafi. This is a celebrity
avalanche...”
On March 10
2011 the Guardian reported that:
“Despite 50
Cent's charity donation, there are several other acts who have not responded to
reports that they received money from the Gaddafi family. Lionel Richie, Timbaland and Enrique Iglesias are allegedly among the performers, while Jay-Z,
Lindsay Lohan and Jon Bon Jovi
were reportedly guests at the events.”
Based on
these reports it seems that at least the journalists and the artist industry
demand that the artists should give away the money they have profited from
their business arrangements with the Gaddafi-family. According to the Rollingout we even see a political pressure surfacing,
raising the same demand. But why stop there? Why shouldn’t Luxembourg – one of
the largest laundering machines in the world who has profited billions of Euros
from doing business with despots all over the world – follow this tough policy
of which the media have unloaded solely on the shoulders of well known artists?
Why shouldn’t everyone – especially governments – pay back ALL funds which
actually have been deprived from the despots’ oppressed subjects?
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