Fwd: Lennon funded terrorists and Trotskyists [Free Republic]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 20 21:13:17 PST 2000


James Farmelant wrote:


>So what is the big deal concerning these revelations? Anybody
>who knows anything about John Lennon knows that he was
>oppenly supportive of Irish republicanism and of leftist politics.
>Ali Tariq was a friend of his who published a famous interview
>with Lennon in the early 1970s on political matters. I guess the
>only revelation here is the British government's reluctance to
>release classified information concerning Lennon most of which
>is probably stuff well known to his fans.

Ok, so what's the story with the "you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see" conclusion to "Working Class Hero"?

Doug



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