NP - The US vs John Lennon

[Carvill John]

Vinelandish echoes, and a reminder of just what 'right wing' means:


Power to the people

When John Lennon announced a US tour in 1971, the White House set out to 
stop him. But, as John Patterson discovers, he wasn't the first musician to 
have the The Man on his case - and he wouldn't be the last

Saturday December 2, 2006
The Guardian

"The author of the following words was FBI Director J Edgar Hoover. Try and 
guess who he's talking about in this memo to Richard Nixon "[He is]... a 
paradox because he is difficult to judge by the normal standards of 
civilized life ... His main reason for being is to destroy, blindly and 
indiscriminately, to tear down and provoke chaos ..."
Ho Chi Minh? Mao Tse-Tung? Charles Manson, even?

Wrong. He's warning the White House about that renowned subversive and enemy 
of the state, John Lennon...."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1960708,00.html

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