Title: JOHN LENNON AND YOKO ONO HAVE BIG PLANS TO BRING DOWN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THIS FALL STARRING J. GORDON LIDDY AND OTHERS Source:
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I may be wrong so feel free to correct me - I was under the impression that John Lennon was rather dead. So dead that in fact he is completely incapable of planning anything.
History Professor Jon Wiener Discusses Lennon's Politics, FBI Files and Why Richard Nixon Sought to Deport Him
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon
In 1997 -- that's what? -- 15 years later, virtually all of the issues were resolved by the Clinton administration. They released almost all of the pages we were seeking. They paid $204,000 of our legal expenses. But they still withheld ten pages, which they said were national security documents provided by a foreign government under a promise of confidentiality. We're still trying to get those ten pages. And just recently, a court ordered the F.B.I. to release them, and the F.B.I. has now told us they are going to appeal that decision. So, ten pages to go, national security documents.
AMY GOODMAN: So, you're saying, Professor Wiener, that John Lennon is still a threat to the national security of this country?
JON WIENER: Well, I'm not saying that, but the F.B.I. is telling us that they cant release these ten pages, because they contain information provided by a foreign government under a promise of confidentiality. Now, we're not even allowed to know the name of the foreign government. My guess is that it's not Afghanistan.
And, in fact, there's a guy in England named David Shayler, a former employee of MI5, the British organization that corresponds with our F.B.I. He says he saw a Lennon file at MI5. He described its contents. It had information about Lennon's ties with the British New Left and the anti-war movement in London and the Irish movement. Shayler was prosecuted by the Brits under their Official Secrets Act and sentenced to six months in prison for revealing this information.
In 2002 Yoko Ono donated the rights to Lennons solo songbook to Amnesty International. Now, with Ms. Onos blessing, artists are coming together to record cover versions of Lennons most powerful and resonant songs, in an effort to revive his uniquely potent mix of art and activism. In a world still troubled by war and poverty Lennons message is just as relevant today as it was when he first wrote the tracks.