A bit of Balance...Africa is rich/ Bono is a hypocrite

international | crime and justice | opinion/analysis Thursday August 13, 2009 12:57 by paul o toole pauljotoole at eircom dot net

As U2's millions are tucked away in a bank account in Holland, and their 'No Line On The Horizon' tour travels across the globe, the question remains..Is Bono a Hypocrite or not.??

The actual harm done by Bono, bringing his shallow, propagandist, short on fact, and empty brand of 'awareness', denying that Africa is the richest continent on this planet, in fact, does more harm than good. It kills more kids than it saves, starves more villages than feeds, spreads more disease than cures, wipes out more forrests, drains more resources, and impoverishes more of the already most impoverished and marginalised of this very abundant planet. As the already obscenely wealthy, make off with the bounty, the lions share of the wealth. Does Bono actually do harm??
The 'good' that Bono is credited with having done by his loyal press followers, PR gurus and scriptwriters is over-rated in the extreme...in light of the corruption he helps keep in the closet. The magnitude of Bonos deception can be measured in the suffering of the poorest of the poor in Africa, those he claims to help. The dying, emaciated, deliberately starved children he built his image upon.
Bono, U2,Geldof, and their ignorant band of self acclaimed 'artists' perform onstage supposedly to bring awareness to the plight of the poor in Africa, as they prance about the stage dripping in gold and diamonds and sweatshop clothes.
He willingly fails to identify the causes of this deliberate impoverishment...which if there was the slightest willingness to do so... would be a piece of cake for our Bono. Wouldn't take much. It wouldent kill a gig, ruin a performance. Wouldn't turn the crowd away bored. Wouldent loose him any fans (more likley gain some)-cos they love him- and they listen to him, and unfortunately ....they believe him .

Bono has the power to make real change....
It would take 1 minute of Sir Bono's life, 60 seconds. Do you think thats to much to ask Sir Bono??, enough time for 20 kids to die?.
Well mabey 2 minutes. Ok, 40 kids.... The problem is that if he did, he would expose his friends at the top that he has been covering for and protecting for years with this deceptive, misleading 'awareness', which mounts to little more than 'lying by omission'. His tax dodging debaucle is a minor infraction, a disrtaction from a bigger picture, a story to run with to allow the real crime and their criminals to continnue un-abated, as 30,000 kids daily will continnue to starve and die -'needlessley' -as Bono himself has said. Over 10,000,000 deaths a year.....is this deliberate? is this genocide?, is this preventible?, Yes.

With no word to the wise form the self appointed appointed spokesperson on theese issues, the carnage and systemic impoverishment is set to continnue for Africas poor.
The question should be asked...Does the guilt for this atrocity, at least part of it, rests squarely on Bono's shoulders.??