The John Lennon Assassination Plan

[SRR]

It's getting up to 26 years....

http://www.technoccult.com/archives/200 ... -theories/

Who Killed John Lennon?
by Fenton Bresler
(Part 1 of 2)
[Excerpts]

"Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better
chance under that guise because all the serious people like
Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot."
-- John Lennon

>>>>>>> Part 1 <<<<<<<Bresler>>>>>>> Part 2 <<<<<<<

-+- Government Surveillance -+-

During a December, 1971 rally at the University of Michigan (Ann
Arbor), undercover FBI agents recorded remarks made by Lennon and
others. This is only one case of many, all pointing to a pattern
of consistent governmental spying upon Lennon. Under the Freedom
of Information Act, Bresler obtained U.S. government files on
Lennon. The files show that Lennon was under constant government
surveillance, especially during the years 1971-1972.

For example, in an April 10, 1972 memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover
to the FBI's New York office, Hoover orders his agents to
"...promptly initiate discrete efforts to locate subject [Lennon]
and remain aware of his activities and movements. Handle
inquiries only through established sources... Careful attention
should be given to reports that subject is heavy narcotics user
and any information developed in this regard should be furnished
to narcotics authorities and immediately furnished to bureau in
form suitable for dissemination."

"Lennon knew from early in 1972 that he was under constant
surveillance, being followed in the streets and with his
telephone tapped." The ex-Beatle was aware of the surveillance by
secret police agencies and so stated on several occasions. For
example, in December 1975 he told one interviewer, "We knew we
were being wire-tapped... there was a helluva lot of guys coming
in to fix the phones."

-+- "Moral Turpitude" -+-

One of the methods used by the U.S. government to harass Lennon
was the threat of deportation. The government had extra leverage
in its efforts due to a previous conviction against Lennon which
charged him with "moral turpitude." On October 18, 1968, in
Britain, Lennon and Ono had been arrested and charged with
possession of 1.5 ounces of marijuana. Two weeks before the bust,
Lennon had been warned that the police were out to get him
because he was a "loudmouth." As a precaution, he had (as he put
it) "cleaned the house out [of drugs]." Nevertheless, marijuana
was found in the house by the police. According to Lennon, he had
been set up. His opinion is backed up by the fact that the
arresting officer was later sentenced to two years in prison for
planting evidence in other cases.

In order that Ono would not be charged, Lennon "copped a plea".
Charges against Yoko Ono were dropped and Lennon was fined and
found guilty of "an offence of moral turpitude."

At the time of their arrest, Yoko Ono was pregnant and almost
suffered a miscarriage. Although she was immediately
hospitalized, a month later she lost the baby. "On being told the
end of their child's unborn life was near, Lennon had a tape
recorder brought into the hospital room and, with a stethoscope
microphone, he recorded his second son's failing heartbeats
before he died."

-+- Political Activism -+-

Examples of Lennon's political activism are seen in songs such as
"Give Peace a Chance," "Power to the People," and "Working Class
Hero." In an interview published in *Rolling Stone* (and later as
a book entitled *Lennon Remembers*), Lennon called the song
"Working Class Hero" a "...song for the revolution... It's for
the people like me who are working class."

In the interview, Lennon further states that "...the people who
are in control and in power, and the class system and the whole
bullshit bourgeois scene is exactly the same except that there
are a lot of middle-class kids with long hair walking around in
trendy clothes... The same bastards are in control, the same
people are runnin' everything... They're doing exactly the same
things, selling arms to South Africa, killing blacks on the
street, people are living in fucking poverty with rats crawling
all over them. It's the same. It just makes you puke."

"With Lennon, rock had become revolutionary -- and for real. He
and Yoko took part in demonstrations, they campaigned for a
public inquiry into the case of James Hanratty, convicted of
murder and hanged in the early 1960s... they marched for the IRA
[Irish Republican Army] and they called for help for striking
shipbuilders."

-+- The Invisible Assassins -+-

Bresler interviewed Arthur O'Connor, the lieutenant who was
commanding officer of the twentieth precinct of the New York
police that dealt with Lennon's murder. He quotes O'Connor as
saying, "As far as you are trying to build up some kind of
conspiracy, I would support you in that line. Like I said
originally over the phone, if this gentleman [Chapman] wanted to
get away with it, he could have got away with it. There was the
subway across the road and no one around to stop him."

Instead, once Chapman had accomplished his task, he calmly sat
and waited for police to come.

"Why one method rather than the other, the amateur as against the
professional? Because that way you avoid any awkward questions.
If Lennon had been gunned down by a professional killer, the
whole world would have known: such swift expert assassinations
carry their own individual hallmark. It would have been obvious
what had happened and, with Lennon's history of anti-government
radical political activity, there would have been [an in-depth
investigation]."

"But if you program an amateur to do the job, a so-called 'nut',
very few questions are asked."

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[Sri Lanky]

The same kind of "programmed nut" tried to kill Reagan,no?.....or was that something completely different?

[yorick]

I like the part where Chapman had earlier obtained an autographed copy of Lennon's latest album. And just by "coincidence" another fan, an unnamed amateur photographer happened to photograph them together. Exactly the sort of picture that inner-gov killing machine handlers would take pleasure in arranging:




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[Wayne]

Everytime I see or hear Ono's name in relation to anything to do with Lennon I think of the line from ALLMUSICGUIDE: "talentless charlatan".

The Beatles' best tune in my mind was 'paperback writer'.