There's something on the other side of that wish that would make Mr. Jones wish he had never uttered the word - Revolution...
(I hate the Beatles)
Bring it!
There's something on the other side of that wish that would make Mr. Jones wish he had never uttered the word - Revolution...
Bring it!
Have you seen this before...
The Lost John Lennon Interview
"Power to the People"
TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?
JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
My thinking EXACTLY. I’m 61 years old and a Vietnam Veteran serving in U.S. Army Military Intelligence, so I got to see the whole story about the Vietnam War which gave me the the taste of pure hatred against all forms of socialism.
In 1970 I was assigned to Arlington Hall Station and given the job of spying on radical organizations like the SDS active in the Washington D.C. area. What struck me most about these people were how immature and cowardly they were, especially their leaders. Yes, they could talk a good game about revolution, but actually doing anything to overthrow the government was beyond 95% of the gutless wonders.
My opinion then and now is that the REAL revolutionists in this country are the active duty military and veterans - ruthless men and women who have been to the circus and have seen the elephant.
So if the balloon of revolution does go up, the Leftards are going to find themselves having their butts chewed off by the dogs of war.
In the words of Dirty Harry, “Go ahead, Punk. Make my day!”