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An Open Letter From Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders to President Trump (Re: Julian Assange)
Chrissie Hynde's Facebook page ^ | 2/17/20 | Chrissie Hynde

Posted on 02/17/2020 2:30:55 PM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD

An open Letter to Donald Trump, President of the United States

Dear Mr. President,

I often think of how much my father, Melville “Bud” Hynde, who proudly served his country as a Marine on Guadalcanal, would have enjoyed your Presidency. The other day when you gave that award to Rush Limbaugh, my father would have been so delighted. He loved listening to Rush, which is why I allowed my song, 'My City Was Gone', to be used on his radio show.

My father and I didn't always see eye-to-eye. We argued a lot, but isn’t that the American way? The right to disagree without having your head chopped off?

Soon, I will be participating in a protest in London against the extradition of Julian Assange. I know my father would be mortified, but I feel strongly enough to do what I believe is the right thing; to protest further punishment of a man who sought to defend Freedom, albeit in a way you rightly disagree with.

I know Mr. Assange broke the law (as i have done defending the treatment of animals) but I believe he has been duly punished and should now be set free.

Please consider my plea.

Yours truly,

Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: artschool; chrissiehynde; julianassange; politics; potus; rock; rockers; rushlimbaugh; talkradio; trump
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To: atc23

And Kent did not go down the way the revisionist have painted it.

Spent many years on Water St


81 posted on 02/17/2020 7:20:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Tin Huey

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tin+huey&&view=detail&mid=350513D5B274BC990CB8350513D5B274BC990CB8&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dtin%2Bhuey%26FORM%3DHDRSC3


82 posted on 02/17/2020 7:22:55 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Yes, she ran with a very rough crowd.


83 posted on 02/17/2020 7:23:50 PM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: mylife

Without looking it up, she coulda easily been born in the early sixties.


84 posted on 02/17/2020 7:31:57 PM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: OKSooner

Likely early to mid 50s

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/chrissie-hynde-what-i-know-about-men-20150304-13umdb.html

I dont care for her politics put grew up with this music, she came on the scene in the late 70s

Her Brother Terry was around earlier


85 posted on 02/17/2020 7:37:39 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
I grew up here but her Dad must of been a 3 year old marine

Well, no.

Children born through 1964 were considered boomers, I believe.

86 posted on 02/17/2020 7:41:52 PM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: gogeo

I know 1 WWII vet, he is 100 as of 7 months ago

It was a Loooong time ago

Maybe Chissy’s dad got a toe hold in his late 40s :)


87 posted on 02/17/2020 7:48:18 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: OKSooner

Born in 1951.


88 posted on 02/17/2020 7:49:06 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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I’d have a beer with Chrissy but I know she would accuse me of drinking the last one...

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=15+60+75+jimmy+bell&view=detail&mid=C64A56788ABABC15D5A0C64A56788ABABC15D5A0&FORM=VIRE

Thats why I stashed the Fireball.. missy


89 posted on 02/17/2020 7:57:28 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

My dad was a serviceman in WWII and I’m almost a decade younger than her


90 posted on 02/18/2020 3:57:36 AM PST by atc23
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To: OKSooner

Shes only 68


91 posted on 02/18/2020 3:58:58 AM PST by atc23
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To: mylife

Ok, how’d it go down and what’s Water St,?


92 posted on 02/18/2020 4:00:17 AM PST by atc23
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

You support that?


93 posted on 02/18/2020 4:23:11 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

She started out pretty, but became and stayed harsh looking.

___________

welcome to the world of aging.


94 posted on 02/18/2020 4:24:04 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Jim Noble

could you expand on this a bit?


95 posted on 02/18/2020 4:25:53 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Ms. Hynde, I don’t know what Assange did, but I do know we don’t have him. The UK does. And the UK is refusing to cough him up.

Tell it to the UK.


96 posted on 02/18/2020 4:30:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mylife
Thank you... which obviously means she's in her late 60's.

Gee how time flies. I recall back when MTV was a thing and had music videos, and her big hit was "Back on the chain gang", at what must have been the peak of her career.

Anyway glad to hear that she's doing well these days. She has been through some uh, unpleasant times from what I've read.

97 posted on 02/18/2020 6:08:51 AM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Chrissie’s a kook, but she’s the kind of kook that actually believes what she preaches and she’s not afraid to let the other side have their say. I respect her.


98 posted on 02/18/2020 7:54:48 AM PST by rivercat
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To: be-baw
I have no grief with cutting Assange a break.

Dido

99 posted on 02/18/2020 2:46:54 PM PST by jpsb
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