# Roger Waters is a tankie

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 7, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-waters-is-a-tankie/969234 "2022-08-07T05:05:41Z")
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#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-waters-is-a-tankie/969234/350 "2025-07-21T16:10:59Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> Update: he could be facing criminal charges for support of Palestine Action, which takes direct action against insufficiently pro-palestinian organizations, including attacking airplanes on an RAF base:

> [@OldOlds](#):
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> Hell, even The Economist thinks Europe has a free speech problem:

To avoid sidetracking started another thread on this:

> [@The UK (and Europe's) free speech problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-uk-and-europes-free-speech-problem/1021153):
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> Splitting this from the [Roger Waters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-waters-is-a-tankie/969234/307) thread to avoid side tracking… [Roger Waters is a tankie - #338 by OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-waters-is-a-tankie/969234/338) IMO this is a demonstration of something that comes up pretty frequently. JR Vance’s pro-fascist lectures in Europe (and generally the fact its pretty hard to hold up any aspect of American political as good example for others right now) notwithstanding. The way the US defines free speech and other fundamental rights, as a concise, (relatively) unabigous set of absolute statements…

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