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Watch Roger Waters Risk Jail Time During Political Protest

Roger Waters recorded himself committing a criminal offense, which could attract a prison term of 14 years in July 2025.

Roger Waters has recorded himself committing a criminal offense, which could attract a prison term of 14 years, as he continued to voice objections to events in Palestine. Waters repeated the phrase “I am Spartacus,” taken from Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 movie in which the titular Roman slave is protected from being arrested because everyone in a large crowd claims to be him. I declare my independence from the government of the U.K., who’ve just designated Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organization.

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