Invoking Lennon, Ono asks suffering souls to forgive

Reuters ^ | 11/25/06

[WinOne4TheGipper]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yoko Ono, widow of slain Beatle John Lennon, issued a plea for forgiveness to the world's suffering people in a full page notice in Sunday's New York Times entitled "Forgive us."

Noting that the December 8 anniversary of her husband's murder at the hands of an assassin was approaching, Ono thanked the people from whom she hears each year, but said she wanted to send a message this year as well.

Directing her words to "people who have lost loved ones without cause," to "the soldiers of all countries and of all centuries," to civilians who were injured or killed and to "people who have been abused or tortured," Ono wrote "Know that your loss is our loss ... Know that the burden is ours," and asked "Forgive us."

[B.O. Plenty]

OOOHHHHHH Puuuulllllleeeesssseezzzzz........

If Ms Ono-Lennon really believed this shit, she would be living in Bumfud Iraq and Iran, helping the poor and opressed who have lost "loved ones" to the muzzie butchers....and trying "diplomacy" with the mullas and muftis and imams to emplore them to stop cutting off people's heads on t.v...... and stop saying out loud in public that they mean to kill us all.

.....instead of living in a multimillion pad in the middle of NYC (which was secured and purchased by the blood of American soldiers) surrounded by body guards insuring that the muzzie butchers can't cut her head off.

[Ditter]

Fortunately I don't read the NYT so I wouldn't have thought about Yoko ............ except that you posted this piece. Now I'll think about how ugly she is for about the next 30 seconds...... and bud..... that's too long.

[alicewonders]

I'm still working on forgiving her for trying to sing.

Some things are unforgiveable.

[kenth]

Geez, she should be asking for forgiveness for thinking she could sing.

[kenth]

So, is she now going to put her (husbands) money where her mouth is and actually DO something to help all these people she asked fogiveness of?

She bought an ad and it makes her feel good about herself. What more do you want?!    ;-P

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"Forgive us."

Only if you promise to renounce singing forever....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Most of them are.

[31M20RedDevil]

I remember watching the Monday night NFL game when they broke
in to announce that Lennon had been shot. It was a stupid murder of
a ,well one shouldn`t speak bad of the dead as granddaddy said.

I can`t believe I own a POB album, it was pretty bad,she had no talent,
at least in singing no talent.

[Chi-townChief]

The kind of music they made is hard to forgive.

[miele man]

What a load of crap! If she is "directing her words to people who have lost loved ones without cause" (presumably including John Lennon) and is asking for "forgiveness" for whatever part she and others may have played in these losses and then saying in the next breath that "she didn't know if she could forgive Lennon's killer", then this is the heighth of hypocrisy. How can she call for "healing together" if she is excluding herself from the beginning? This woman is more than a half bob off plumb.

Imagine.

[Rocko]

Without Yoko, we might have had two or three more classic Beatles albums. Instead, we have Two Virgins and Life with the Lions.

And this dribble.

[originalbuckeye]

Well, I really do like the Double Fantasy album. Other than that I have no other thoughts about Ono. She broke up the best band ever and years later she tries to stay in the public eye. Boring.

[Aeronaut]

The first forgiveness she needs to ask for is giving the world The Plastic Ono Band.

The first forgiveness she needs to ask for is costing the world The Beatles. The second forgiveness she needs to ask for is giving the world The Plastic Ono Band.

There, I think that's better.

[television is just wrong]

not sure they talk to the same almighty.

[word_warrior_bob]

Yoko, Please ignite yourself on fire in protest of our sins.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

There must be an oxymoron in there somewhere.

[Beowulf9]

At first glance one might think that but I think she was always more in love with herself than John and married him for a share of his bright spotlight.

[GinaLolaB]

December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy. Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese.

[Rocko]

Imagine there's no Yoko. It's easy if you try.

[dayglored]

> This woman must have been GREAT in the sack back in the day;... she's hideous to look at, she can't sing and her voice is completely abrasive, and every time she opens her mouth, she says something stupid.

Hard to imagine her being anything "great" but maybe "kinky" would suffice. I can imagine Carmen Electra being "great", but Ono only conjures up words like "weird".

> And it's not like John Lennon's options were limited.

In one sense, they were. He was easily manipulated, in part due to egotism, in part due to a lot of personal demons (probably left over from childhood, who knows). He was also doing a lot of hard drugs, and Ono played on his dependency and neediness -- she's a world-class manipulator.

Once she had him hooked, the Beatles were toast, his future music was toast (until he started to reclaim his life in the late 1970's), and his prior wild love life with the babes was Nowhere, Man.

In the late 60's, Ono looked at Lennon and saw her choice: continue as a weird-ass avante-garde artist, or hook up with Lennon and become rich and famous. D-uh. If she'd stayed with her own talents, she might have done okay, and stayed relatively honest (for a leftist). But doing what she did, she's nothing but a damn goldbrick.

HEY YOKO!?!?