This is a nutbag conspiracy theory that has somehow survived in GD. Normally these nuts embarrass the DUmp too much, and get relegated to one of their designated lunatic boards:
BeFree (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 10:52 PM
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Things Should Have Been So Very, Very Different
JFK should be an old man and along with his brother Bobby, giving us sage advice, MLK would have lived to see his dream come somewhat true, and John Lennon would still be writing love songs, if it hadn't been for a few things that "just happened".
We've lost, and the enemies of the people have gained.
Planned, or just coincidence?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7193171I wonder if DUmmy BeFree has ever considered how many future statesmen, scientists, and artists had their brains suctioned from their skulls by Killer Tiller?
Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 10:59 PM
3. Do you think John Lennon's assassination was part of a wider conspiracy?
BeFree (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 11:10 PM
8. Well
We would have been a whole lot better with John still banging around. He said as much that he might be crucified. Do you think he was just busting balls, or did he have a clue?
Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 11:19 PM
9. yep
Chapman spent time overseas working for "World Vision" a supposed religious charity often suspected of being a CIA front. The president of World Vision at the time? John Hinckley Sr. As, in.... close personal friend of Poppy Bush, and father of the guy who would attempt a similar assassination on Ronald Reagan about 3 months after Lennon was murdered.
The shootings were oddly similar, right down to the copy of Catcher in the Rye found on both shooters. Probably both brainwashed in the same World Vision camp.
Oooo...Hinckley..Bush..Lennon..it's gotta be true.
BeFree (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 11:28 PM
11. Thanks, Sebastian
I didn't know that.
FarLeftRage (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 11:03 PM
4. It was all planned...
By a cold and calculated mob, know as the bfee...
Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-09-09 11:25 PM
10. The Bush Crime Family had the FBI stalking John in the 70's
They tried to deport him from the US based on a decade old pot bust. After John won his court battle, that's when he took a break from his career and was basically silent for 5 years. Then in 1980 he emerged with a new hit album in the fall of 1980, exactly when the Bush Crime Family was preparing to swindle their way back into power. They didn't want John Lennon stirring up any protests in the 80's.
Or maybe it was just the Bush Family Evil Empire firing the first shot in the War on Drugs.