Buju Banton found "guilty"

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[benjammin]

Buju Banton is facing up to fifteen years in jail after being found guilty of various drugs charges in the Florida courts over allegations the reggae singer conspired to set up a cocaine deal in 2009.

As previously reported, Banton was arrested after seemingly trying to buy five kilos of cocaine in 2009. Prosecutors also told the court that the singer had told a police informant that he could set up a coke deal on several occasions.

However, Banton has always maintained that he was tricked by a cocaine smuggler, and that while he may have told the informant he could set up a drugs deal such claims were actually idle boasts. The prosecution conceded that no money had ever changed hands in relation to any drugs deal Banton spoke about.

When the case first came to court last September jurors couldn’t reach a decision and a mistrial was declared. This time it took jurors two days to decide the singer was guilty of three of the four charges he faced: conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offence and using the wires to facilitate a drug trafficking offence. He was cleared of the charged of attempted possession with the intent to distribute.

Banton is now awaiting sentencing, but his lawyer admitted yesterday he could get up to fifteen years. He has been in a US jail since being arrested back in 2009.

Bit strange... sad news all of this, I personally ask for all of yuh prayers!

[Nazarite I]

Fire for babylon.

I and I see them lying. Only have to look at this article to see that they aren't letting truth out there. How can you charge the man for possession of a gun that was found in another man's car while the man charged was nowhere near it. The way they report it disgusts I.

Reminds I of when the police raided St. Agnes place in London and destroyed the Rastafari  temple there. The media carried nothing but a story about the Elders in the temple asking the police to help them get rid of drug dealers in the temple yet no one noticed that the only ones arrested were RastafarI people for ganja possession and the Elders were crying out that they made no such request. It was just babylon looking to claim the land so they could carry on building their new shopping centre and expensive new housing.

Fire and brimstone on the wicked!

[supereuropa]

It's a sad story indeed, but the thing I really don't like about him is that he is so homophobic. Boom Bye Bye is a song that really shouldn't be sung by a rasta.

[benjammin]

It's a sad story indeed, but the thing I really don't like about him is that he is so homophobic. Boom Bye Bye is a song that really shouldn't be sung by a rasta.

Why not chant down unrighteous, sinning, unnatural people?! ANy friend of Babylon is nah any friend of myn! wherever on TV radio, papers, magazines, everywhere! When was the last time I saw a Rasta on all of this stuf... Once! On "the big question"... I will put up with them.. but type in louis spence pineapple dance studios... then tell me that its all good. This is not aimed directly at yuh jus another point bout them

[supereuropa]

I'm against gays, I really hate them, but isn't Rasta's root love? It would've been ok to say it like Sizzla "Rasta no mix up with homo", but this is taken too far, all people must have equal rights. Like Bob Marley said "Have pity on those whose chances grove thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation" . Jah will get the job done with them.

[Nazarite I]

It is not about hatred. I and I should never hate another man.

I and I do not mix up in sin so I and I do not engage with homosexual things but let I and I remember that if I and I hate them then I and I are digging a pit they can use to trap us. Plenty of homosexual groups have used what they see as hate to fight against I and I. Getting Sizzla banned from England and Buju loosing his grammy were the result of them working on that basis that I and I hate them.
If they want to take I and I putting fire on them as hatred then that is their misoverstanding since fire is for the purification, but when I and I use the word gunshot instead of fire then I can't really see how they can take it any other way than hatred. Gunshots are for death, not purification.

Blessed love.

[prophet777]

It's a sad story indeed, but the thing I really don't like about him is that he is so homophobic. Boom Bye Bye is a song that really shouldn't be sung by a rasta.

If he was scared of homos he would not have sung that song. Buju is not homophobic. Do you even know the meaning of that word ?
I mean would you consider Rasta as being babylonphobic because they speak out against babylon ? That does not make sense. If one is phobic then one would be scared but, Rasta nah fear no one. That is why Rasta have the guts to speak it out like it is like no others.

And why shouldn't Rasta sing Boom Bye Bye ?
Let me see...ummmm....because he is just repeating what God says about it ? Of cause not in the very same words - they did not have guns back then - but don't you think God would have told the people back then if they did have guns to shoot them ? Who knows...
I mean stoning or shooting - where is the difference ? They both lead to death.....that is what God requests in the bible or not ? So them batty boys need to take God to court and leave Buju alone. LOL.
He was not caught with no drugs - this is just a set up by batty boys and their supporters.

Another thing is Buju may have sung it but, definitely did not mean it the way it is interpreted. He wasn't out there shooting down gays was he ? You do not see Rasta out there shooting down gays do you ? Rasta does not partake in violent acts unless they are pushed in a corner. And, even then, some still wouldn't. Rasta is no violent clan like they (babylon) want to try and make it to be. We don't go out running after gays to beat them up or kill them but, we sure do talk out against it seeing that Rasta lives by the laws of God and God HIMSELF says what HE thinks about it......

Now please - this is not an "attack" against you - I am just putting it the way I see it. This whole thing about Buju is just another devil set up against the rules of JAH. Wait till JAH brings them devils to court then we will see who is right and who is wrong.....


P7
Posted on: February 25, 2011, 03:53:31 PMBabylon is at it again. Putting good for bad and bad for good. Here is my question to them (taken out of the bible) :

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Psalm 82:2

Not long I tell ya. Bun babylon bun.

P7

[Nazarite I]

Blessed Love Prophet. Good to see the I back in this place.

The I makes some good points here and in the Livity board on this topic of homosexuality about Judgment but Iman would still Reason with the I on that.

As far as the I says about simply repeating the words of I and I Father to remind people of Righteosness, I agree wholeheartedly. I and I stand up for Righteousness in this time and I and I know the Lord's Judgment on these things. Judgement though I don't think is the issue.
The I says it here rightly that although Rastas sing about these things, I and I do not go out and perpetrate violence against any man, sinner or not. It still seems to I though that I and I would be served much better by leaving the gun talk out of such things. As it is said, Fire is for purification. Guns are a babylonian tool of death and conquest. I know some Rastas have to mix up with that sort of thing for defence, but as an ideal, I and I want nothing to do with guns and ammunition. Why should I and I incorporate them into I and I songs that are meant to remind people of Righteousness? Surely sticking to Fire is more in fitting with I and I Livity?

Although as a side note, since Boom Boom Bye is the particular song I and I are discussing, it is useful to remember that Buju first wrote and performed the song when he was 15 (i.e. before the man began to Manifest Rastafari) and it was responding to a prominent child rape case in Jamaica (and Jah knows I won't stand up and say that a man who will do that doesn't deserve a gunshot to the head). Context is always important.

Blessed love.

[benjammin]

Blessings for the replys...

Now, I agree wit most of what is said up here however... I would say sizzla goes on more about homosexual stuff... Buju has mostly stopped... I, and as much as I say fire pon it, think that Sizzla etc should not do anymore... It ruins the song now... He should record more of the likes of "thank you mama" but I would rarther not carry on about the gays, they F*cked up Buju's grammy etc... If we let them get too us now then they have achieved it, there goal, seeming to be attacking and ruining Rastafari... You can all write to Buju:
Mailing Address:
Pinellas County Jail
14400 49th Street North
Clearwater, FL 33762-2877
(727) 464-6415
I and I emailed the sheriffs ofice and they said you can write letters too him.
  But please not more Gay talk, I am really F*cked of with all of... At school, Tv radio, web... I come here too reason and get away from that crap, So please nah more on them... focus onsomethingg else... If we look all round the forum there are so so so many threads about it all

Jah Bless
FREE BUJU!!

[Nazarite I]

The Reasoning will go where it goes.

If the I doesn't want to read it, that's the I's choice.

Blessed love.

[supereuropa]

Blessings for the replys...

Now, I agree wit most of what is said up here however... I would say sizzla goes on more about homosexual stuff... Buju has mostly stopped... I, and as much as I say fire pon it, think that Sizzla etc should not do anymore... It ruins the song now... He should record more of the likes of "thank you mama" but I would rarther not carry on about the gays, they F*cked up Buju's grammy etc... If we let them get too us now then they have achieved it, there goal, seeming to be attacking and ruining Rastafari... You can all write to Buju:
Mailing Address:
Pinellas County Jail
14400 49th Street North
Clearwater, FL 33762-2877
(727) 464-6415
I and I emailed the sheriffs ofice and they said you can write letters too him.
  But please not more Gay talk, I am really F*cked of with all of... At school, Tv radio, web... I come here too reason and get away from that crap, So please nah more on them... focus onsomethingg else... If we look all round the forum there are so so so many threads about it all

Jah Bless
FREE BUJU!!

From what I know, Sizzla agreed with a gay association to stop his hating on gays, along other singers.

[benjammin]

From what I know, Sizzla agreed with a gay association to stop his hating on gays, along other singers.

Try listening to nah apologize and batty bwoy.
He agreed I think and then went back pon his word.

[supereuropa]

Those were made some time before he agreed to stop his homo hate. He agreed in 2010 or in 2009.

[Nazarite I]

The man made no such agreement. Plenty still come round talking about the 'reggae compassion act' but Iman doubt such a thing exists, let alone that any Rasta would sign it.

Blessed love.

[supereuropa]

The man made no such agreement. Plenty still come round talking about the 'reggae compassion act' but Iman doubt such a thing exists, let alone that any Rasta would sign it.

Blessed love.

Well, since that agreement was made I haven't seen any anty gay Sizzla/Capleton songs.