Just Gimme Some Truth

Before they spent their time chasing pornographers and medical marijuana users, the FBI harassed and spied on musicians:

Secret FBI papers revealed that John Lennon was ruled out as a communist threat to the United States because he was always stoned, London's Evening Standard reported yesterday.

Yeah. It's hard to plan a revolution when you're constantly looking for your next fix.

Documents show that the FBI suspected that the ex-Beatle was the head of revolutionaries planning to hijack a 1972 Republican conference, and kept him under close watch at first. But Lennon's abuse of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the early 1970s eventually ruled him out of FBI investigations. An agent concluded that Lennon "appears to be radically oriented" but "does not give the impression he is a true revolutionist, since he is constantly under the influence of narcotics."

Marilyn Monroe , Lucille Ball and Albert Einstein were also among the suspected communists tracked by the FBI from the 1950s to 1970s.

Maybe the FBI killed Marilyn Monroe because she could seduce men with her gorgeous looks into becoming communist agents? Hell, I'd become a communist agent for her. I can understand Lucille Ball being investigated due to her bongo-obsessed Cuban husband. But John Lennon? Did he mention "Tricky Dicky" to many times in his songs to deserve a FBI file?

Under the orders of President Richard Nixon, the FBI investigated Lennon in the early 1970s with surveillance, wiretaps, and agents literally following Lennon around as he traveled. The FBI files were made public a few years ago thanks to the work of history professor and radio host Jon Wiener. The funny part is that the FBI were completely clueless about who John Lennon actually was. The picture they had in his files turned out to be a Lennon look-alike.

Lennon eventually beat Nixon's crusade to deport him and was able to stay in New York, not until he was shot in the back and killed by a crazed Christian fundamentalist.

More info: John Lennon (Wikipedia)

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Comments

[karena]

What a f---ing waste of time. The ACLU has a lawsuit filed on behalf of two vegans who were spied on and arrested for protesting ham. And the war on pornography is ridiculous. Bush has been way too obssessed with the child sex trade, rattling the sabre at Cuba, yet giving Saudi Arabia a free pass. What a weirdo our president is.

[carla]

It's all about the projection.

They go after what they hate in themselves.

[karena]

Yep, Carla. That is right.

[capt. beyond]

Blast from the past time. In 1971, I was involved in a drug bust. I had contributed some amateur opinion colmns to several 'undergrond newspapers' that circulated on ALL
college campuses in those days. I spent a night in jail, missed my Sociology Final, and
the next morning was questioned by an FBI agent. Ya can't miss those 'Shiny FBI shoes' as Kesey said. This ain't nothing new in Amerika, folks. This beast has many heads. Here's how ya deal with the Feds. Bum a cigarette, be ignorant, and , if it pisses them off, ya wind up on the House of UnAmerican Activities list. Oh, yes, they have a list. But don't let it scare ya. Freedom fighting can become a passion. Carry on, ya little monsters!

[Agi T. Prop]

Nietzsche said it best:

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

They've become the "evil" that they're supposed to be fighting. They've let their inner monsters consume their souls. They satisfy their hunger by attacking us.

[Diane]

Funny, it didn't stop them from extorting Yoko Ono, did it?

[DuWayne]

Is this the same FBI that investigated un-Americans like the ones who spoke out against the Fascists in the Spanish civil war?

These people are just as scary today as they were when Hoover was in charge - worse even, at least then it was fairly common knowledge that the FBI was run by a psycho. Now it's a lot more insidious and quiet about the insanity.