And why not?!
Posted on 12/09/2005 1:24:34 PM PST by F14 Pilot
You say you want a revolution,
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
...but when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
They should put a statue of Groucho Marks on the other side of the bench.
Lennon said before he died that was not really political or revolutionary despite his music, wish I could find the quote but it was something to that effect. He was a liberal as most young people are and definitely not into religion but I see no evidence he was a communist. Castro is only trying to grab onto something that might legitimize him in some way, which will never happen.
" Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world..."
Imagine all the Socialists... dead of old age and forgotten.
I wish someone could find the follow up story about this statue. It turns out that people kept stealing his glasses!
Can anyone tell me what "demons" he had (other than Yoko, I mean) or how he "suffered" because of his vague "opposition" to the war? He moved to the U.S. at the peak of the war to avoid paying absurd UK taxes, lived at a luxurious address, and was able to avoid working by virtue of his real estate investments. How does any of this relate to Cuban "ideals"?
"It turns out that people kept stealing his glasses!"
I bet they would take his shoes if they could find a blow-torch!
I think Escobar had a statue of John Lennon too.
Growing up, we never paid that much attention to John Lennon; our taste ran more to the Stones than to the Beatles. But an insightful essay by a blogger called "The Solid Surfer" caught our attention:
Lennon detested hypocrisy and always remained on the search for the "next big thing." Given this, I doubt he would have stagnated politically like so many of his leftwing brethren; rather, I believe he would have reversed course entirely a la Michael Medved, David Horowitz, and other liberals-turned-conservatives. . . .Sad to say, Lennon was murdered 25 years ago today, so he didn't have a chance to complete the journey.Clearly, Lennon was no career leftwing activist; rather, it was a particular phase in his highly varied and fascinating life, and as he grew older, he certainly appeared to grow more conservative in his cultural and family outlook. At the same time, he always railed against establishment stagnancy, and today, it is the Democrats, particularly those on the far left, who have largely assumed this characteristic. I believe John would have continued these personal trends, and were he alive today, would with sharp moral clarity support America's efforts to achieve freedom around the world. Assuming he would have obtained U.S. citizenship (he was on track, having been granted permanent residency status), I feel he would have become a card-carrying Republican and voted for President Bush in the 2004 election.
I'll join you there *comrad*. :-)
[Lennon never visited Cuba. But according to Francisco Lopez Sacha, head of Cuba's national writers' association, "the tenets of our Cuban revolution match the beliefs of John Lennon".]
This is a classic example of the fallacy of "authority approval". You take a person who has some exalted status and claim that they support your pet theory. Castro now says "The Great John Lennon supported communism." Big deal. John Lennon was a gifted and accomplished musician and a member of a great rock band, not an expert on government theory.
Other common examples of this faulty logic include claiming support from:
Einstein for Socialism
Einstein for Moral Relativism
Darwin for Nazism
Darwin for Capitalism
Darwin for Communism
As well as a few signs that say P freely. Call it a freedom memorial park.
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