You May Say I'm a Dreamer

According to a new report by John Line of London's Evening Standard, the reason the FBI quit taking John Lennon seriously as a revolutionary threat was because "he [was] constantly under the influence of narcotics."

Holly finds this reasoning to be absolutely absurd. If Mr. Lennon lacked serious radical committment because of continual drug taking, then why was the CIA, COINTELPRO, the FBI and other unnamed government organizations so interested in the affairs of Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and Jerry Rubin? If you know just the slightest bit about these cats, you'll know that they were "constantly under the influence of narcotics" as well.

It's sad to know that important tax dollars were wasted on John, who obviously had no organizational skills to speak of. After the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein died in 1967, Lennon and the rest of the Beatles formed Apple Corps, which went immediately into bankruptcy. In 1972, he released Some Time in New York City, an album chockful of left-wing protest songs like "Woman is the Nigger of the World," "Attica State," "John Sinclair" and "Angela" (referring to Angela Davis), which was his least successful mainstream album artistically and financially. The message was obviously NOT getting out. Knowing that my government would take Lennon so seriously as a legitimate threat to our nation's security makes me wonder just how big their file is on me.

P. Kitty, would you agree with me that being the victim of a government witchhunt would be tre hip? Now I just need to put the finishing touches on Geriatric Youth, become a pro-choice, anti-war, pro-civil liberties, pro-animal rights (and, therefore, Vegan) and anti-capitalist activist who actually cares about the world, the people and the animals in it, and smoke an awful lot of dope. I might just have to get me a tattoo as well.