MISSILE MATTERS: JOHN LENNON DAY (Dec 8th) 2010/PEARL HARBOR DAY 2010--HISTORY OF THE WORLD 1941-MAY 4TH 2014

From time to time I like to update and re-release articles that have received wide readership or which I personally like. This one qualifies on both levels--I encourage everybody who reads anything on this site to read this particular article more than any other on the website. Peace pleeeeze...

            John Winston Ono Lennon and his writing partner Sir James Paul McCartney

Sir Elton sings about his pal, Johnny Lennon's

EMPTY GARDEN

Yup, Elton. I agree my friend,

John sure was a gardener who cared a lot.

I know few folks who planted more effective seeds

of peace and love. <3 b="b">

This anti-war anti--US Offense Department Lennon article attracted more readers than most in Unabashed history.  So here it is, just like decent soda pop, coming back atya one more time:

My childhood hero and role model John Winston Ono Lennon(born October 9th 1940) was killed 30 long years ago today with a handgun, and I'm still angry and disappointed that peacenik John's "Empty Garden"[a tribute song written by fellow British subject Elton John] is still empty. Poor Yoko. http://www.yoko-ono.com/ is where to go to read about her tribute to Johnny--the "Lennon Peace Prize."

                  Dr. Winston O'Boogie(self-proclaimed on his "Rock 'n Roll" solo album)

Mr. Lennon decided to stop being a Beatle and settle down to be a great father and house-husband for Yoko and his darling son Sean. He wrote a great song off the Double Fantasy album that was one of his posthumous hits entitled "Beautiful Boy" about Sean. At one point in their lives both Sean and John looked sorta like this beautiful boy I Imagine:

 

After founding the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time[The Beatles] and being the greatest songwriter and establishing the songwriting duo Lennon/McCartney, founding a new record label--Apple Records--helping to end war, create gender equality, and all that good stuff, John Lennon rearranged his life priorities to spend a decade or so at home to raise his kid and learned to love the children of the world even more personally--such as the beautiful children of the world depicted in this photo from Michael Jackson's project "We Are The World" at one point co-opted by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Mr. Lennon despised missiles such as this vintage product taken from the McDonnell-Douglas website:

But before we get TOO serious about

missiles,

rape,

murder,

genocide,

slaughter,

dismemberment,

baby bombing 

and worse,

here is

the too young 

and far too dead

George Harrison's take

on his pal's

murder,

saying essentially that 

John Lennon

WAS the 

leader of the band by writing 

the lyric 

that
"You were the one

we looked up to

all those years ago."

Enjoy please:



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The United States has had 3 Generals become President so far as near as I can remember:

They used to tell me in history class as a kid that everyone wanted

to make super-popular General George Washington not only

President but King, and the humble Washington refused.

They also told us that he was so honest that he chopped down a cherry

tree as a kid, and didn't lie about it to his mom. "Sure Mom, I whacked

that tree" he allegedly said, but in class they were careful to

tell us that this was a myth, but subliminally

I suppose my history teachers tried to implant

George's sincerity, altruism and honesty

by telling us that there was this myth.

The Constitution drafted by General George, a slave-owner himself,

only allowed white-guy property owners(I'm an unabashed

white guy myself, not much of a property owner, though)

didn't let women vote and enslaved bunches of folks

until Prez Honest Abe came along. I imagine most women

and black folks, among others, weren't too keen on

the idea of making King George[Washington] the First

into the replacement King for King George

the Second we had just fought the

Revolutionary War over with

our allies, the French,

to get rid of British colonialism.

We've had 3 Generals become Prez in this nation so far,

as near as I can recollect. General George was the first.

General Grant's terms in office are described by wikipedia.org as such:

"There were 11 scandals directly associated with Grant's two terms as President." Quite a legacy presidency that particular Republican General's wuz, huh?

Then, of course there was General/Prez Ike.  His major accomplishment as

General Republican Prez was to warn us about

the "Military Industrial Complex" he played such key roles in

formulating himself as an allied commander during the "big one" WWII [it might be more appropriate to call his war Nuclear War I] , and as a pol and Prexy. 

Fortunately, despite problems with the uniformed brass throughout

our history, and the nerve of 3 of 'em to aggrandize themselves

by running for and winning the Presidency, we haven't had a bloody

coup de-tat yet.

2 recent angry Generals who have given civilian control

of the military fits are the following:

Barhopping-around-Europe when an ash cloud grounds air traffic General

Stanley "Rolling Stoner-I'll just resign in disgrace as a 4 star guy and keep

my mouth shut" McChrystal and

General David "Curveball" Petraeus whose incompetence has us still

in Iraq and Afghanistan almost a decade later.

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Now click on this link please and listen to John and Yoko sing

"Give Peace A Chance"

Which They Recorded During Their Bed-In

Now a brief history of the U.S. Presidency in my lifetime since

Prez General Ike.

JFK(seen with great Atty General and bro Bobby, who was also

murdered with a gun) was assassinated by a sniper at Dealy Plaza in Dallas

11/22/63.

JFK was replaced by TX oil guy LBJ who escalated the Vietnam "undeclared by

Congress" war and wound up so unpopular that he would have

lost the New Hampshire primary and didn't run for

a second full term.

So Bobby got shot, and Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon was found

out to actually be a crook who stole his 1972 re-election landslide

victory(see Bob Woodward's "All the President's Men" or "The White House Transcripts"--expletive deleted toya boys and girls--for not-much-fun winter

reading) and resigned in disgrace, after his hand-picked

VP, Spiro resigned in disgrace for a greedy payola scandal as

MD governor.

After JFK was killed and LBJ botched some things, the constitution had

been amended in case another Prez left office in a hurry

and we needed another emergency VP. So when Nixon quit we got Jerry "I didn't make a deal to become president but pardoned Nixon" Ford, who never

received a vote for anything outside of his Grand Rapids, Michigan

congressional district as Pres now. Above, the Ford of the Jerry variety is seen with Rumsfeld during his first failed attempt as Defense Secretary on the left--the guy on the right is just another irrelevant guy I won't bother naming.

Jerry botched things pretty badly, following Nixon losing N. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, S. Vietnam and bringing us an economy

that required wage and price freezes and controls that when he ran for election

the first time as the only anointed incumbent President he was a shoe-in to lose.

So along comes from out of nowhere in a unique mostly all-primary

election for the first time nomination process Gov. Jimmy "Who" Carter

who almost blew his chances of winning by

talking about being a Christian who is so good that

he only "lusts in his heart" on the pages of a soft core porn product

called Playboy(Hef actually IS finally going to produce that braille edition

us guys have been joking about for decades). One more Unabashed note of interest about Playboy magazine. When I was a youngster and sneaking peaks at their airbrushed centerfolds, on the back of the pinup centerfold was a monthly feature entitled something similar to Unabashed Jokes (which featured juvenile sexist jokes). THAT is where I learned the word and went to the dictionary to find out what unabashed meant. Dictionary.com defines it as folows: adjective

not ashamed, disconcerted, or apologetic; boldly certain of one's position. On the title page is my mission statement for this website using that principle in our first mission: 1) Advance the principle that Pacifism, Liberalism, Environmentalism + membership in the Democratic Party are not sins nor of which one need be ashamed.  Pretty impressive cover shot on that particular Hefner hard-copy before hard-copy was a vocabulary phenom; huh guys and gals; shhh! I won't tell if you don't scroll down for a few minutes-- ;)

Jimmy Who botched things badly enough that he lost

to "Bedtime for Bonzo" B acting co-star[the other star

was a Chimpanzee] Ronald Ray-Gun. The Chimp wouldn't

have caused the "Star Wars" inspired

arms race Ray-Gun did.

George H. W. doesn't get a pic because I forgot. George H.W. botched things badly so a Democrat was elected again. So now we had the first

impeached Prez. Bill "It depends on what the definition of is is" and "I never

had sex with that woman" Clinton.

Even though the world was at peace, no one had run 767s into

high rises, the economy was humming, etc. Bubba's sexual

proclivities with young interns caused Dubya's close 2000 election

theft by brother Jeb in Florida-the "hanging chad" governor/brother.

Remember that dubya lost the election, but became

president anyway? Here dubya is seen being educated by his dreamy fantasy trusted friend, Professor and former KGB head Vladimir Putin--who has since launched his own personal wars of aggression against the once-again sovereign(following Soviet absorption for decades as the result of the Churchill/Stalin/Truman carve-up the-world-and-divvy-up-the-map post-nuclear war victory parties) nations of the Caucuses region south of Russia(Georgia

and Kyrgistan, in particular).

Dubya wound up being so bad after his illegal theft of the election,

The Great Recession, 9/11, Katrina, "Freedom Fries,"

waterboarding, torture, illegal wiretaps, two endless wars, etc., etc. that

the American voter went Democrat again and you'd have to

say that the dominance of the uniformed brass

has continued under President Barack Obama. 

It is the one aspect of his Presidency 

of which I have been particularly disappointed and especially critical.

Our departure from the Iraq invasion and occupatiion was clumsy and the brass

wanted to stay but the new government in Iraq

wanted us out, otherwise we would have been there even longer.

We are still in the absurdly longest war

in US history. We must leave Afghanistan now.

We have attacked by various means 

in countries without public knowledge

or the approvalof sovereign nations, in violation

of US and International law.

Drone strikes are being used and

civilians are dying in them.

Drone strikes must end.

And we must at some point soon declare an end to the undeclared

"War on Terror"

which is justifying our violent aggression ad infinitum.

PLEASE Mr. President, you've accomplished so much.

The first black president to win not one.

but TWO elections in the most racist

society outside of South Africa.

Your perseverance in

passing the

Affordable Care Act

was a 

"Big fucking deal"

to quote Vice President Biden.

Ending DADT in the uniformed military

was awesome.

Passing the TARP ('stimulus bill'' legislation

right out of the starting gate your first term was

simply great!

But do NOT let the uniformed brass,

the entrenched civilian elite

in the Pentagon, or

the idiotic intelligence community

hoodwink you any longer.

Violence does NOT beget peace, sir, if

you haven't learned that by now.

It only causes more slaughter, rape, and destruction

Assaults of any sort on sovereign 

nations without permission violates

international law and makes you a criminal,

and without the benefit of a Congressional

Declaration of War

violates the Constitution

so beloved by those in the

District of Columbia.

Please try Mr. Lennon's approach

and GIVE PEACE A CHANCE, SIR.

Now here for your listening pleasure

is Sir Paul McCartney's take on

Johnny Lennon's untimely demise, a particularly

selfish portrait of how he felt about John's tragic

handgun assassination.

Most of the album, if you listen carefully,

including his title track

"Tug of War" 

as well as his more familiar

"Here Today" 

are all about McCartney, not about Lennon.

Intriguing.

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Harry S [his whole middle name-no period, dot, nothing--I always

have wondered about that] dropped "Fat Man" - the "affectionate" name given

the nuke bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 8/9/45 because the Japanese Emperor refused to give it up after we nuked Hiroshima a couple days earlier. Over 100,000 civilians died instantly on 8/9 because of Truman.

The "affectionate" name given by the uniformed conspirators

for the USA for the Hiroshima nuke dropped on Hiroshima was "Little Boy" and killed 6 figures of civilians as well. Whew. Harry S and his uniformed brass were some pretty busy 'missile/phallic complexed' guys in the day, huh?

Take a quick gander pleeze at this map of North America. What do you see to the East and to the West of the United States of America mainland.  IC two oceans. To our west is the Pacific, and to the East is the Atlantic.

In military affairs circles everyone knows that those oceans

are our main defense. Anyone trying to occupy us has

to get here by boat or plane, except Canada or Mexico.

Simple.

So is military strategy. They just try to complicate it

those Uniforms, DOD chiefs and PhD's like Kissinger and Brzezinski and Condoleeeeeza (not exactly a San Francisco treat--that bowl of Rice) Rice. Only the USA, Russia and China have InterCONTINENTal nukes deployed(we and Russia still have land based missile ICBMs, Submarine worldwide-commuter missiles, AND aging rust-bucket B-52s and migs that can wing it to any world capital and nuke 'em 2 within minutes forya)

If Russia(or the old USSR) wants to get us, they have to send boats and

planes[or missiles--what fun] to get their conventional or nuclear weapons to us. If they want to get Europe or Asia, they can walk to those wars. Same with China. They could walk, drive or hop a train or trolley to any war with any major world power except the USA.  And WE have 2 oceans between us and any real threat to takeover militarily by anyone at all. WE have the best interCONTINENTal nukes on earth and WE don't even NEED them for DEFENSE at all, only for intimidation and offensive(attack) purposes. And we are the only nation--with an unstable Presidency like we have--OMG--lets get this START Treaty passed somehow someway, pleeeeze liberals--to have started a nuclear war-and won one.

PhD genius Henry A.(Professor Kissinger obviously being lectured--and lending global legitimacy to--by the self-proclaimed "Great Leader And Teacher" himself, atheist and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, with Premier Chou En-Lai looking on as a witness) snuck off to China in the 70s to talk to Mao. Now Mao has a carbon footprint to end all carbon footprints, his godless communist successors own our national debt via our own Treasury bills, and they own all of our manufacturing jobs, now. Henry decided to be Defense Sec AND State Sec in all but name and-- using conventional weapons--lost S. Vietnam(we were defending our Dictator-of-Choice Nguyen Van Thieu against Ho Chi Minh in the North), N. Vietnam AND his illegal secret wars in Laos AND Cambodia[along the way stupidly and accidentally providing the Khmer people and the world with dictator Pol "Killing Fields" Pot]. Kissinger. What an idiot. A PhD can be a dangerous thing. Ivy league credentials can be a problem for Republicans. Our earlier non-Congressionally declared war under Republican Ike in the 50s was Korea. We stalemated there, after ramming a Security Council resolution through when the Soviets stormed out during the debate and we pushed thru a vote when they were out of the room and couldn't issue their veto. So we stalemated that one with the full resources of the US DOD AND the United Nations. OMG. American Presidential leadership of the world. Nuclear war. The first one already happened and WE DID IT!!! After Nam, Carter's people botched rescuing the 52 hostages in Tehran(where our preferred dictator--the Shah of Iran-Reza Pahlavi--had to wing it out quick to asylum with oodles of cash in order to avoid being strung up by the toes and caused the Islamic revolution that wound up distorting the Koran and resulting in the Sunni Bin Laden and his Jihaddist nonsense and ultimately his "lucky day with 19 plastic box cutters" and four 767s on 9/11/01). And since 9/11 our Trillion dollar a year conventional forces haven't even come close to winning in 10 years against people who don't even have an armed boat or plane-no navy, air force, marines, nothing. Just ragtag bands with old rifles, shotguns, etc.

Former Defense Secretary(two-time failure) Rumsfeld!

Former Defense Secretary/Haliberton CEO/VP Cheney!

Current Defense Secretary Gates! 

These three are the nuts who have lost totally unnecessary illegal and undeclared wars for years since 9/11, with the biggest defense budgets in world history. All the kings horses and all the kings men have been granted them and they still lost! Trillions, thousands dead, millions wounded, homeless and scarred for life. And we're still in trouble.

WE HAVE 2 OCEANS BETWEEN US AND THE REST OF THE WORLD! WE DON'T REQUIRE MUCH TO DEFEND THE UNITED STATES FROM ANY SERIOUS THREAT TO OUR SURVIVAL! ALL WE NEED IS A BIGGER COAST GUARD AND A SMALLER EVERYTHING ELSE MILITARILY, THAT'S IT!!! THE ONLY REASON OTHER COUNTRIES WANT NUKES IS BECAUSE WE UNNECESSARILY ARE POINTING THEM AT ALL THEIR MAJOR CITIES. OUR NUKES MAKE AHMADENIJAD STRONGER AND MORE POPULAR IN TEHRAN AND KEEP THE BUM IN OFFICE. SAME WITH THE FOOL WHO CALLS HIMSELF 'DEAR LEADER' IN PYONGYANG! IT'S PRECISELY WHAT IS MOTIVATING ILLITERATE VULNERABLE PIMPLY TEENS TO SIGN UP FOR SCUMBAG-MOTIVED BIN LADEN'S JIHADDIST IDIOCY!!! GATES HAS TO GO, THE HOLDOVER FROM THE BUSH CIRCUS, AND DEFENSE SPENDING MUST BE SLASHED, AND WE NEED TO RATIFY START AND ELIMINATE OUR OWN NUKE ARSENAL. THEN OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND THAT OF THE WORLD WILL FINALLY BE OK!

Truman was a mis-guided(misguided by his uniforms in DOD) not-so-bright badly informed VP--Roosevelt acknowledged he didn't realize how dumb he was and that he should have kept Harry updated with CIA type briefings and what-not--along the Ford lines--who flummoxed into the presidency uninformed and unexpectedly. He dropped those nukes and killed way more civilians than anyone could have legitimately justified, even if you think having Hirohito's people come to the Utah salt flats and watching a test explosion to prove the Manhattan Project had succeeded wouldn't have ultimately convinced them with proper diplomacy to even give Hirohito up[Harry in his 'unconditional' surrender AFTER slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents allowed Hirohito to remain as emperor and die in office of old age as emperor for umpteen years--your tax dollars at work forya].

That thing you see above is a McDonnell Douglas shot of a "Tomahawk" Cruise Missile.  We don't even need the ballistic missiles anymore, what we can do with cruise missiles is scary. The illegal Drone strikes in Pakistan are basically done by  cruise missiles the uniforms are giving an affectionate pet-name-- calling them Drones, planes piloted from a couch somewhere in the USA by a uniform with a remote; kinda like you switching from Olbermann to the AC/DC 360 Circus in your living room. OMG!!!

That sure is a pretty visual above, no?  That's horrible. I think there really is something sexually perverted about all this nonsense.  The military establishments world wide, but especially here in the USA are still primarily males. Males in western civilization have dominated women and children. The constitution was written by white slave-owning "founding-fathers" who suppressed women and minorities and are still attempting to do so. Our Emancipation Proclamation was only a century and a half ago. Slavery was legal under that silly Constitution for nearly 100 years.  And for nearly 150 years the Constitution prevented half of all Americans, women, from even having the right to vote! What a lousy document it was!  Getting better at a snail's pace, from what I can see. I've studied military affairs for decades now. I AM an expert. Undergrad degrees in Economics, Pol Sci, International Relations and Psychology. Graduate work and Teacher for the Pol Sci dept at Boston University where they paid me as a Teaching Fellow to pursue my PhD in Arms Control and Disarmament.  These uniforms and social science PhD's can complicate a wet dream, I'm sorry for the analogy, but I'm angry today[upset about John Lennon, Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards' death, the lack of numbers in Congress now, etc. etc.].  Military strategy is simple.  We have two oceans protecting us. The only really major wars we've fought in our country have been the Revolutionary war[we won that one] and our own internal squabble--the Civil War. Thats it. No one can "get" us. Anything else is paranoia. It's us pointing nukes at the rest of the world that is the problem militarily for us and for the world. If we disarm nuclearly, slash the defense dept. budget to a fraction, spend a bit more on "Coast" Guard, invest the savings in infrastructure and jobs....THEN EVERYONE'S A WINNER - ESPECIALLY UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.  LEFTISTS, LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS UNITE, PLEEEEEEZE!!! THIS AND WE MATTER AND IT'S OUR JOB AS WORLD CITIZENS TO CAUSE OUR OWN GOVERNMENT'S DISARMAMENT!  I PRAY FOR PEACE AND HONOR

ALL THOSE WHO WORK FOR PEACE.

I LOVE ALL OF YOU.

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STOP THE KILLING, STOP IT NOW.

DO IT, DO IT, DO IT NOW! 

We continue to unabashedly support

this amazing President and continue

to reserve the right to offer

suggestions as he 

welcomes.

Peace Pleeeze,

and Happy 2013 

2 1 and all.

Originally Published On December 8, 2010

Please check out John Lennon's widow's work to memorialize her husband

including the Lennon Peace Prize:

yoko-ono.com