O Sting, where is thy sting?
It is not where his principles lie, according to human rights activists who are demanding that the superstar stinger donate to charity the more than $2 million dollars “in blood money” he received for playing a secret concert for the daughter of one the world’s most brutal dictators, Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan.
Sting's response:
"I have come to believe that cultural boycotts are not only pointless gestures, they are counter-productive, where proscribed states are further robbed of the open commerce of ideas and art and as a result become even more closed, paranoid and insular."
You know, he's kind of got a point here. Name one boycott that's brought a dictator to his knees. Go ahead. I'll wait.
Yeah.
Boycott's don't work. Dictators only understand brute force and while I'm not saying Uzbekistan should be miltarily invaded, we can accomplish quite a bit with a cultural invasion. Let the people get a taste of freedom and they'll take it from there.
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