Fausty's Libertarian Blog: John Lennon: assassinated?

Sunday, 10 October 2010

John Lennon: assassinated?

John Lennon, articulate and vociferous opponent of war, must have been a thorn in the side of the military industrial complex. After all, without war, how can this income- and tax-generating industry survive without? How can governments maintain their deterrent capabilities without a healthy war machine?

Given his worldwide popularity, surely it was in the interests of many governments around the world that he be denied the oxygen of publicity?

Does that necessarily mean that he was assassinated by government decree? What are the odds?

7 comments:

banned said...: 1 less dead peacenick.; 10 October 2010 23:42
Trooper Thompson said...: Banned, that makes no sense. Either it's '1 less peacenick' (sic) or it's '1 more dead peacenick' (sic).

Personally I think there's a good chance that he was got rid of.; 11 October 2010 00:47
Angry Exile said...: I think we're crediting him with greater importance than he really deserves. If John Lennon was got rid of then there shouldn't be enough left of Bono to pick up with a pair of tweezers. I'd say it was more likely McCartney had Lennon killed over a secret message John encoded in The White Album in which he outed Paul as a secret meat eater.

Or possibly Paul Chapman was just a nutcase with a gun. Hanlon's Razor works for me nearly every time.; 11 October 2010 05:27
James Higham said...: There's a lot of material on him and on Manchurians.; 11 October 2010 19:35
Trooper Thompson said...: AE,

Bono's the complete opposite of Lennon. He's a mascot for the global elite, he hangs out with all the billionaires, and gets money for his 'charity' from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He called Brown and Blair 'the Lennon and McCartney of British politics' ffs! He's trash. Lennon, for all his flaws, had huge potential influence in his generation that Bono never has had nor will have. That doesn't mean his murder was a political assassination, but it may have been.; 12 October 2010 23:37
Angry Exile said...: I think the Bonehead influence is at least as big as Lennon's. Possibly bigger since Bonehead appeals to more than one generation. Who he hangs out with isn't so much the point. But he absolutely is trash. He's also just another muso when it comes down to it, as was Lennon. Influential? Sure, though in different ways from Bonehead as you point out. Worth bumping off? Nah. My parents, both very much 60s people, already thought he took himself too seriously for anyone else to before Chapman shot him. Another ten years and he'd have turned into that bloke with the crazy wife who wrote .; 13 October 2010 13:12
Angry Exile said...: Weird. The last word in that post was supposed to be Imagine. Is the creepy spirit of Lennon fucking up my typing from the other side? Or do I just need a cup of tea? ;-); 13 October 2010 13:14