Come Together Right Now Over Him (CommonDreams)

[marmar]

Published on Thursday, March 22, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
Come Together Right Now Over Him
by Joyce Marcel

I've often wondered if George W. Bush, like Richard Nixon before him, has an enemies list. If he does, he's lucky to be living in the computer age, because keeping track of so many names on paper would be difficult.
Bush is Nixon 2.0. He's Nixon on steroids. He has the Patriot Act, Guantanamo and secret prisons in Eastern Europe. He has made sure that the machinery of the state is behind him as he welds his corrupt power. He not only beats out Nixon, he beats out Chile's Pinochet. Will we ever know how many people have "disappeared"?

What, I wonder, would Bush and Richard Cheney have done with John Lennon?

The 2006 documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon," by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, tells the story of Lennon's persecution at the hands of the U.S. government. It shows how we've been down this road before, and the only difference is that the Bush machine has refined the methods and the menace.

It's hard to believe today, but yes, the U.S. government actually persecuted John Lennon. At the brilliant suggestion of Strom Thurmond, and with the power of FBI head J. Edgar Hoover ("Ours is a just cause... We seek divine guidance to uphold the cause of democracy.") behind it, the U. S. Immigration Service tried to lift Lennon's visa because of a long-ago drug charge in the U.K. (While they allowed other rock stars, also with U.K. drug arrests on their records, to come and go as they pleased). .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0322-28.htm

[fooj]

1. He's Nixon on steroids!

No kidding!

[kimmerspixelated]

2. At least you didn't think that Tricky Dicky

was totally insane. At least tricky Dicky had a pretty good foreign policy.

[katty]

3. psychotics love company and know no bounderies