'Irish rock star and rights campaigner Bono has been awarded an honorary
knighthood, the British Embassy in Dublin said.
"Her
Majesty The Queen has appointed Bono to be an honorary Knight Commander
of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his
services to the music industry and for his humanitarian work," the
embassy said in a statement.
Fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof, also a high-profile rights campaigner,
received the same award in 1986. Honorary knighthoods are awarded to
non-British nationals.'
'Bono's latest efforts to dodge taxes and
invest in the very capitalist franchises he supposedly rallies against prove
that he is one of the leading characters in a puppet show that, far from
helping emaciated kids in Ethiopia, serves only to keep the third world
in chains while herding Westerners into the same debtor slavery prison.
