Happy Birthday, John [Archive] - The Ross Show Forums

bluekazoo

10-09-2005, 07:37 PM

October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

foptiludrop

10-09-2005, 08:47 PM

Probably -- hopefully -- the years our government wasted spying upon John Lennon will go down in history as a reminder (and a warning) that our "protectors" are dimwitted little fools with crewcuts who think "national security" is compromised by lyrical eloquence and a snappy tune.

You bet I miss John Lennon...

September 30, 2004

Judge Orders FBI to Release Lennon Files
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The FBI must turn over the remaining secret files on Beatle John Lennon to a professor who has waged a more than 20-year legal battle to get the documents, a judge ruled.

U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi rejected government arguments Tuesday that releasing the last 10 pages would pose a national security risk because a foreign government secretly provided the information. The government was not publicly identified.

Jonathan Wiener, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, sued the U.S. government for the documents in 1983 under the Freedom of Information Act. He received 248 pages in 1997 as part of a settlement.

The previously released files, which were gathered from 1971 to 1972, include memos detailing Lennon's donations to a group planning to demonstrate at the 1972 Republican National Convention. But they contain no allegations Lennon was involved in planning or committing illegal acts.

Wiener, a historian, originally sought the files for his 1984 book, ``Come Together: John Lennon in His Time.'' After the 1997 release, he wrote ``Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files.''

His battle with the government went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.