Roger Waters supports free speech, but only that he agrees with

In April, when the city of Frankfurt planned to cancel their Roger Waters concert for antisemitism, he wrote on Instagram:

ROGER WATERS FRANKFURT SHOW UPDATE

FRANKFURT COUNCIL WERE LEGALLY REQUIRED

TO RESPOND TO ROGER WATERS INTERIM INJUNCTION

BY MIDNIGHT APRIL 14

DID THEY?

NOBODY KNOWS?

WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT

WHAT’S GOING ON IN FRANKFURT?

ARE THEY PLAYING FOR TIME?

WHO KNOWS?

NOT THAT IT MATTERS MUCH!

WE’RE COMING ANYWAY!

BECAUSE HUMAN RIGHTS MATTER!

BECAUSE FREE SPEECH MATTERS!

YES! FRANKFURT CITY COUNCIL

WE REMEMBER KRISTALLNACHT!

LIKE SOPHIE SCHOLL

OUR FATHERS STOOD

WITH THOSE THREE THOUSAND JEWISH MEN

AND TODAY WE STAND WITH THE PALESTINIANS!

WE’RE COMING TO FRANKFURT

ON THE 28TH OF MAY!

LOVE

R.

(Yes, he pretends to understand Kristallnacht better than the Germans do.)

Last week Waters again said that he supports free speech:

Free speech matters! 

Except when it doesn't.

This week, for at least the third time, a fan with an Israeli flag was forcibly removed from a Roger Waters show and the flag desecrated.

Former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters, who has lately featured repeatedly in the news for all the wrong reasons, has stated that wearing a mock Nazi uniform in his concerts was actually a "statement against fascism", but that does not explain why a fan who was waving an Israeli flag was manhandled by security and escorted off site.

"There was no intent on my part to provoke anyone," said Gilad Emilio Schenkar, who arrived at the concert with his partner. "And I certainly did not plan on being thrown out."

"Both I and my partner are huge Pink Floyd fans, and this was dubbed a farewell tour, so we just had to buy tickets. Since we've been noticing the antisemitic displays in his concerts lately, we decided to take an Israeli flag with us.

Shortly after displaying the Israeli flag, he was summarily ejected from the venue. "It was brutal. They grabbed and dragged me out. It was quite painful. They took me to a side room and interrogated me. Who I am, what I was doing there and all that. They firmly held my hands while they searched me. They then took the flag, threw it in the garbage and kicked me out. I told them that I thought this was a democracy, so why is a Palestinian flag allowed but an Israeli one isn't?"

Unlike the earlier incidents, in this case there was no written message, no chanting. The man simply displayed the Israeli flag quietly.

And that was too much free speech for Roger Waters.

When Waters says "We remember Kristallnacht," it appears to mean that he remembers it from the Nazi point of view. Because his treatment of peaceful protesters at his concerts are right in line with how Nazis dealt with protests.

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