[Vigilant1]

Does anyone else find using the message of a commie peacenik foriegner to honor Americans slaughtered by our enemies as deeply offensive as I do??? Maybe they'll play some patriotic Lennon tunes like Back in the USSR to help us 'heal'.

[retrokitten]

Did you see the losers who are scheduled to perform? Alanis Morisette, Moby? Anti-American peacenik freaks. You know that at the end they are all going to sing "Give Peace a Chance" and hold hands while we all gag.

[Goblins]

Firstly I think you will find Lennon was a nationalized American citizen. Second , as far as I'm aware he never claimed to be a communist, and thirdly while some err on the side of peace, better that than to err on the side of war. There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace... or so someone once said.

[Paul Atreides]

Obubba Been Laiden will be on there singing All I am sayyying is, I let the piece in my pants....

[Paul Atreides]

I just hope they don't let Yoko Dodo sing. People's dogs will go mad!

[Psycho_Bunny]

It's good that someone else noticed this. I saw a commercial for it and thought the same thing.

[True Capitalist]

It's time we GIVE WAR A CHANCE (which I think was the title of a P.J. O'Rourke book)

[LisaFab]

Though no fan of the garbage that will be spewed in his honor on Oct. 2, I was a huge fan of Lennon. And although he often spoke of "world" peace, consider these lines from Revolution #1:

You say you got a real solution
Well you know
we'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright

You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
we all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright

It is my hope that as Mr. Lennon lived longer among us and as his children grew older he might have come to realize the old adage:

If when you are young and not a liberal, you have no heart - If when you are older and not a conservative you have no brain.

[fone]

Temporary candidate for the Neville Chamberlain Award (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until the show...).

Voting here at Free Republic on October 24, 2001 in honor [choke] of the United Nations 56th Anniversary

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[xkaydet65]

As a New Yorker I have many memories of John Lennon, most often related to his musical talent, but one memory is that of this foreigner as you call him, donating and raising money to buy NYPD officers new bulletproof vests at a time when the city was broke and the vests issued by the NYPD were dubious. He had a sense of how to participate in the city life and what and who were important. I have no doubt that were he alive he would be found at Ground Zero, and he would be welcomed by the men of the NYPD and the FDNY, men who most likely share few of Lennon's political thoughts, but who would know him as a New Yorker.

[gunnut]

This event was originally planned as a anti Second Amendment program but was changed after the bombing to raise money for victims. I won't watch but I would not be surprised if they don't try to slip some anti-gun messages in and maybe try to link gun owners to terrorists.

[Vigilant1]

BUMP! This is on tonight.