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The Pretenders lead singer has a great voice, but no sense.  She thinks killing business leaders will solve some of the world's economic problems.

She says multinational corporations "are destroying the planet."  In Dec 2002 she told Tower Records' Pulse magazine, "The last resort is for someone to go in and actually take these guys out. Maybe it will have to be an out-and-out assassination. When no one will listen anymore, then individuals have to take the law into their own hands and it can get very ugly. When some people decide to run the world for their own economic interests, then someone has to take them out."

Her spokespeople have been backtracking ever since, and claimed her remarks were taken out of context.  Maybe, but this is not her first offence.   

In 1989 she suggested that people should firebomb McDonald's restaurants.  Soon after, someone went right ahead and did it.  

In 2000 she was also arrested at a Gap store in New York for slashing leather clothing in protest at the company using cheap leather imports from India and China.  The Gap later stopped the practice, which presumably pleased Hynde.  I guess the Chinese leather workers would be less pleased, if they ever found out who had lost them their jobs.  

Murdering her would be wrong.  After all, if we value free speech we must also value the freedom of ageing pop stars to revive their flagging careers by spouting evil populist nonsense.  However, boycotting her records is the least we can do.  

Jim Thornton, Nottingham 17 Dec 2002

Thomas Stockert writes of a recent Hynde concert, 5 March 2003:

'Between songs, the pugnacious Hynde, in a classic black T-shirt and jeans, bantered and battled with the crowd. She dedicated "You Know Who Your Friends Are" to "all you junkies and f--," gave a shout-out to the late Joe Strummer, opined that she hopes the United States loses if it goes to war with Iraq ("Bring it on! Give us what we deserve!"), and introduced the song "Fools Must Die" with the self-deprecating quip, "I'll show you how it's done."'

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