L.A. Venue Silently Rebooks Banton?

Boycott Jamaica for as long as the Jamaican gov't supports this behavior. Why is this homophobe getting a Visa? Have we lost all standards for US entry? Seriously, we should all boycott Jamaica and refuse to send ANY US aid to the entire country. I am just a simple Capitalist who believes in the market. Let’s destroy whatever is left in their economy and let them suffer. There are other places to spend our vacation, tax, and charity dollars. Jamaica, long may it rot.

Here's a bit more from the Time Magazine article: In the past two years, two of the island's most prominent gay activists, Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey, have been murdered — and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson's mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence. In 2004, a teen was almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier. "Jamaica is the worst any of us has ever seen," says Rebecca Schleifer of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and author of a scathing report on the island's anti-gay hostility.

Excerpt from 4/12/2006 Time Magazine article: Brian wears sunglasses to hide his gray and lifeless left eye—damaged, he says, by kicks and blows with a board from Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton. Brian, 44, is gay, and Banton, 32, is an avowed homophobe....In June 2004, Brian claims, Banton and some toughs burst into his house near Banton's Kingston recording studio and viciously beat him and five other men. After complaints from international human-rights groups, Banton was finally charged last fall, but in January a judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence. It was a bitter decision for Brian, who lost his landscaping business after the attack and is fearful of giving his last name. "I still go to church," he says as he sips a Red Stripe beer. "Every Sunday I ask why this happened to me." So Jamaica, if this is harmless as you state, go gouge your eye out and come back and tell me you haven't been harmed.

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Let the Jamaicans wallow in the filth and ignorance. They are a primitive people. They cannot be helped. No need for them to come here and stink up the place though. I wouldn't set foot on their bankrupt little rock in hurricane alley. Let them keep their ratty headed sweaty fool singers too. A people who celebrate the torture of innocent people aren't worth the time of day. Boycott the entire country. Let the next hurricane wash them into the sea.

Let's see now: what has Jamaica contributed to world culture? Let's see. . . . There must be something . . . Oh, now I remember hate music and gay murder. You really have something to be proud of, Jamaica. Banton deserves to be in prison not in the US begging from money.

Jamaica, I'll bet you are real happy about your absurdly homophobic government. Your passionate defense of the murderous musician makes me thing you are probably equally murderous. You can get away with that in your ignorant backwater island, but in Los Angeles and other civilized places, we fight back. Boycott Jamaica.

Sure, you disagree with me, so why not throw decorum out the window. Buju Banton has concerts here because there is a demand for him in America. Little do you realize, their are millions of homophobes against you getting any more "gay rights" in this country. Who are you fighting for by preventing Buju Banton from performing here? Do not fool yourselves- you are doing NOTHING for gays in Jamaica. As we speak, the government of Jamaica is debating legislation which will make it impossible to challenge, or change anti-sodomy laws in the future. This amendment will pass without a hiccup. Buju Banton is the least of our worries. He is just like every other ultra-masculine Jamaican man who talk shit about gays because he can, and because such views are culturally sanctioned. Jamaican culture is not primitive and stupid- it is traditional and ignorant. How dare you reduce my culture to its stance on homosexuality- which, the last time I remembered- is shared my most countries. Get real man.

Jamaica: just because your culture is primitive and stupid is no reason for gay people to have to put up with it in this country. Boycott Jamaica.

Picket and boycott any club that books this murderous creep. Jamaica is as backward and uneducated as Uganda. Petition the President and Secretary of State to cut off U.S. aid to this ignorant place until they improve their deplorable human rights record. Boycott Jamaica.