Good Bye, Good Riddance

It seems this is the 25th anniversary of the "assassination" of John Lennon. What is the difference between an assassination and a murder? Why was John Lennon assassinated, while the numerous other people who were killed in New York City during that week were murdered? Could it be that he was a multi-millionaire and the others were not? Odd how these people who have wealth the rest of us can't even dream of never take a vow of poverty and feed the world's hungry. Let's take a look at what John Lennon believed.

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,

It's easy if you try,

No hell below us,

Above us only sky,

Imagine all the people

living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,

It isn't hard to do,

Nothing to kill or die for,

No religion too,

Imagine all the people

living life in peace...

Imagine no possessions,

I wonder if you can,

No need for greed or hunger,

A brotherhood of man,

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,

but I'm not the only one,

I hope some day you'll join us,

And the world will live as one.

You don't have to imagine any of this. Just look at North Korea. Look at Vietnam. Look at Laos. Look at Cuba. Look at any country in the history of this world that has tried to eliminate God. Look at their poverty. Look at their repression. Look at their brutality. Look at the countries that have adopted socialism. The European middle class lives at the same level as the American poor. The first Pilgrims who came to this continent didn't die because of the harsh conditions or because they didn't know how to survive, they starved because they tried to set up a socialist system. Socialism spreads misery equally -- except among the political upper class. This is what John Lennon wanted for all of us. He should not have been killed. Although in countries that have followed his dream, millions are imprisoned, tortured and "assassinated" for disagreeing with what John Lennon (and Vladimir Lenin) believed.