The OutRage! website seems to be closed definitively for unknown reasons. While doing my research, it was sometimes opperative but most of the time it was not in function. Maybe the work of hackers or simply a condition to the February 2005 deal reached within the dancehall industry and gay organisations. In any cases, this is the way the text originally appered on their webpage.
		Police say reggae hate is a crime Outrage! News Service November 10, 2003 Original link for this article: LINK Three top Jamaican reggae artists whose songs advocate the murder of gay people are committing a crime, and people who promote and distribute their songs are aiding and abetting criminal offences. This is the conclusion of the police officer in charge of investigating the prosecution bid by the queer human rights group, OutRage! Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll of the Diversity Directorate at New Scotland Yard has told OutRage!: “The transcript of the CD, in my opinion, does show offences”. The three singers under investigation are Elephant Man, Bounty Killer and Beenie Man. Their songs variously urge the shooting, burning and drowning of gay people. All three singers are Jamaican but their records are widely distributed in the UK and other countries. Driscoll is now seeking the agreement of the Crown Prosecution Service to take action against not only the singers and their record companies, but also against high street record stores HMV and Virgin, BBC Radio 1Xtra, and the BBC and Amazon websites. He says they are distributing and promoting CDs inciting homophobic violence and murder. Driscoll is also considering the possibility of liaising with the Jamaican police and government over legal action in Jamaica against the singers and their Jamaican-based record companies. Driscoll agrees with OutRage! that charges could be bought in Britain under the Public Order Act 1986, the common law offences of incitement and conspiracy to murder, and under the solicitation to murder clause of the Offences Against The Person Act 1861. His conclusion follows a five-week police investigation, which involved purchasing sample copies of the violence-inciting songs from retailers, and downloading excerpts of the songs from websites. Sample CDs were purchased from HMV in Tottenham Court Road and from the Virgin store in Bromley. On police instruction, the CD lyrics have been translated from Jamaican patois to standard English by an independent linguistic expert. The translations confirm the lyrics advocate extreme homophobic violence and murder – including the shooting, burning and drowning of gay people. “We hope the Crown Prosecution Service will back the police and authorise prosecutions,” said Peter Tatchell of OutRage! “It is disturbing that the CPS recently postponed a meeting with senior police officers to discuss the case. There is no excuse for delay. The gay community has every right to expect swift and effective justice”. Reggae incitement to murder lyrics - key samples A) Beenie Man's track Damn boasts: "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays". B) The song, Nuh Fi Wi Fault, by Elephant Man, declares: "Battyman fi dead!./ Gimme tha tech-9 (gun)/Shoot dem like bird". C) Bounty Killer's hit, Another Level, exhorts: "Bun (burn) a fire pon.mister fagoty./Poop man fi drown". Jamaican gay group backs OutRage! campaign The OutRage! campaign to prosecute reggae singers who urge the shooting, burning and drowning of gay people is backed black gay organisations, such as the Jamaican gay human rights group, J-FLAG, and by the UK black gay website, www.blackgayuk.com. J-FLAG, says: "These lyrics perpetuate a culture of hatred and violence. This music sells; it also kills". J-FLAG reports a wave of homophobic assaults and murders coinciding with the release of anti-gay records, with many of the victims being shot, macheted, stoned, set ablaze and chased into the sea and left to drown.