My question is “where in the hell is John Lennon now?”  We have rewarded a multitude of individuals with vast celebrity over the last 25 years.  Many of these folks could easily take on the likes of government, industry, and religion.  Yet, in these dire times none of them wish to come forward.  Apparently, we not only elected a bunch of phonies, but we have also bought their records and watched their movies.  We now have cowards on both sides of the fence, save for the Dixie Chicks, who I rather like to think of as the three wise ones, the harbingers of the next common era.

Gore Vidal’s last line of the movie is misquoted here.  He said, “John Lennon represents life, and that is admirable;  Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death, and that is a bad thing.”

Truthdig digging up one more truth about Crookie Nixon, and his in bed manouevres with southern white trash, Strommie Thurman, is a useful update
to a whole stream of shut-out tactics used against liberals, progressives and socialists the
reactionary Republican scum have used, at least since 1920 to block out political protests against their evil behaviors.

A whole stream of secular humanists and academic freethinkers from Europe were prevented from entering the USA right after WW II, when the fake red scares were generated by these degenerates to brainwash the American people for the Cold War.

Often the hidden pressure on the Truman and later, gutless Eisenhower puppet administration by these political crooks and their Gestapo scum, J.Edgar Hoover stopped anyone who did not swallow their propaganda. Often the well-publicized rejection was issued under some creep who was named I Shipman, if I recall. In short some zombie bureaucrat was the “Fall Guy!”

Others were, of course, thrown out of the country, like Charlie Chaplin, when little Ronnie Reagan and other assorted Hollywood rednecks were mounting their anti-commie witchhunts with the help of an equally degenerate Catholic Legion of Decency and the Hayes Office censorship trash which survives to this very day with the current
movie rating racket, attacked by the new movie,
“This Film is Not Yet Rated!” (title)

Back in WW I + the Republican rule from 1920 - 1932, socialists, anarchists, and other freethinkers like Emma Goldman were also driven out, and in-migration of anyone Left of Cal Coolidge was denied whenever possible. Here too, the racist Gestapo Scum J.Edgar Hoover, whose name still disgraces the FBI nazi operations building in downtown Washington, D.C. played an ever more powerful role into the 1970s until he finally died.

So this is a long tradition! I hope Truthdig will continue to dig deeper into the past. There are a lot of bodies still hidden down there. It would be great if some progressive writer undertook to provide a sampler of 111 or so. Good luck!

Peace,it has been said, is the interval between wars. I prefer Lennon’s lines, “Imagine there’s no heaven and no religion too.” Since many wars use religion as a cause to kill, I believe wars would be shorter and the intervals would be longer if we took the certainty of God and the religions that are built on a belief instead of fact. As long as chance is a factor in evolution and competition is an important inherited trait for the survival of the fittest, I guess that wars will continue without religion. However, to solve the possibility of catastrophic consequence
of an atomic weapon in the hand of a religious suicide bomber who wants to sit as close to God as possible as a super martyr, I have an agenda of agnosticizing all teaching of God and religions. That is why I always say that I am an Agnostic Deist instead of saying I am a Deist.
I always correct people I talk to about their religion and always get them to agree that they are; Agnostic Catholic, Agnostic Jew, Agnostic Methodist, etc, I haven’t gotten a muslim to agree yet because I don’t get to discuss religion with them. My first question is: Can you prove there is a God empirically? and then.
Can you show me one agnostic religious suicide bomber?. Would you blow yourself up to go to a heaven you KNOW You DON’T KNOW exists. This is where the survival genes kick in and what I believe would extinguish the certainties of dangerous religions and religate them to where Zeus and the others are. I have written a log about a world cruise I was on in 1993 for the purpose of spreading my agenda and have it on a disc that anyone can have free for the asking.
Send a self-addressed envelope to:
    Steve Borkowski
    9940 So.Ocean Drive
    Jensen Beach, Fl
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Sincerely, tygowsteve@peoplepc,com