He is the rock legend dubbed 'Saint Bono' for his long-running campaign against global poverty.
But when Bono's band U2 perform at Glastonbury later this month, protesters are planning to accuse them of avoiding taxes which could have helped exactly the sort of people the singer cares about so dearly.
Members of activist group Art Uncut will hoist a massive inflatable sign with the message 'Bono Pay Up' spelt out in lights during the Irish band's headline performance.
They will also parade bundles of oversized fake cash in front of the singer.
The protest has been provoked by U2's decision to move their multi-million-pound music and publishing business away from Ireland – thus allegedly avoiding taxes on record sales.
A spokesman for Art Uncut, an off-shoot of controversial group UK Uncut, said the protest would not be violent or disrupt U2's set – but would be 'highly visible'.
He said: 'Bono claims to care about the developing world, but U2 greedily indulges in the very kind of tax avoidance that is crippling poor nations.
'We will be showing the very real impact of U2's tax avoidance on hospitals and schools in Ireland. Anyone watching will be made very aware that Bono needs to pay up.'
Source and full story: Daily Mail, 5th June 2011
While I generally believe taxes should be lower, while we have to pay the signorage on this stinking fiat currency, I see no good reason why the rich can't pay their share of the interest. After all, the more of this interest-bearing debt-based money you have, the more interest is owed on that money to the central bank fraudsters.
Here is one Dublin graffiti artist's take on Bono.
By the way, U2 are on stage as I write this. No sign of the protest yet.
The protest was probably headed off by security personnel or even police. That's the problem with publicly planned demos - the event organisers have time to plan too.
When FOPWA organised a boycott protest at a Seacret Cosmetics kiosk in a large mall here in Perth earlier this year, security personnel were ready for us. We weren't allowed into the mall (Westfield Carousel, owned by Larry Silverstein's partner in crime Frank Lowy) on the grounds that it was "private property". They filmed us being denied entry the first time - individually, since we made our way in through different entrances and at different times - simply for having "Boycott Apartheid Israel" stickers on our tops, and called the police when we found our way back in. One member was arrested, and I received a three-man police escort out of the complex for doing little more than standing there. Something similar may have happened here.