‘IMAGINE’ BY JOHN LENIN

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John Lennon’s song ‘IMAGINE’ climbed to number 3 on the Billboard charts in 1971, and it is a staple on ‘Classic Rock’ radio stations today. I never did like it. Even when I was a teenager cramming my record collection with so many new hits of the day, and before I was really politically aware enough to understand the dippy hippie anti-Christian / 

anti-Capitalism message of Lennon’s ‘Imagine’, I didn’t like the song for another reason: I thought the melody was sleepy and super-sugary and the music sparse and boring.

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The only thing that changed for me over the years was that I became politically and religiously enlightened enough to reject the Marxist message of ‘Imagine’.

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‘Imagine’ – a slow and boring Marxist anthem. Could any piece of crap music be worse?

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It’s odd what miniscule, inconsequential details from our lives we can sometimes remember decade after decade. I still distinctly recall unwrapping a particular gift on Christmas Day, 1976, when I was 16 years old. It was from my brother Nappy (or, Napoleon, for long), and it was obviously a music album (that twelve and a quarter inch by twelve and a quarter inch flat square was always impossible to disguise with pretty paper, ribbons and bows).  The only question was: What album is it?

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I ripped away a piece of wrapping paper from the front cover of the album and a slice of blue sky was revealed to me. That was 37 years ago, but I still remember thinking this: 

Oh, no! Please don’t let it be John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.

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I was greatly relieved to discover that brother Nappy had given me the album ‘Stormbringer’ by Deep Purple (one of my favorite bands at that time) and NOT 'Imagine' by John Lennon.

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The older I got, the less I liked John Lennon. I eventually came to realize what a bitterly unpleasant and idealistically silly man he was. In fact, he was so bitter deep inside that the bitterness even manifested in his physiognomy:

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BITTER BRITISH BOY

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In the April 8, 2002 edition of ‘The New American’ magazine, the article ‘Is It Only Rock ‘N’ Roll?’ by Steve Bonta included the following paragraph:

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Regarding ‘Imagine’, John Lennon once admitted, "the song ... is virtually a communist manifesto, even though I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement. You see, ‘Imagine’ was exactly the same message, but sugar-coated. Now, ‘Imagine’ is a big hit almost everywhere -- anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it is sugar-coated it is accepted. Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey."

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It can be argued whether or not Lennon was in fact a communist. He may have preferred to publicly reject the label because of the negative impact it would have had on his sales and popularity. But one must ask: Why would someone who is “not particularly a communist” write a song that he later described as “virtually a communist manifesto”?

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At its core, Marxism is a diabolical control-the-wealth scheme, not a share-the-wealth plan. And communist or not, John Lennon was a jackass who seemed to find a way to sufficiently enough overlook the terrible atrocities that were occurring in the communist countries to put the “communist manifesto” to music. [Most probably 46 million, 689 thousand human beings murdered in Russia; 37 million, 828 thousand human beings murdered in China; 2 million, 397 thousand human beings murdered in Cambodia ...just to begin with.]

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Last week, DiscConnected posted a new installment titled ‘Redistributing The Wealth’ on his political blog BACK IN THE USSR (one of my very, very favorite political blogs). Something he wrote there gave me the idea to rewrite the lyrics to John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ and post them as a comment.

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In response to my ‘Imagine’ comment, DiscConnected wrote:

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McDogg --
I'm holding up a lighter!
Encore!

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I took that to mean my “reimagining” of Lennon’s song was a hit with DiscDude. Later, I got the idea that my rewrite of ‘Imagine’ might make a decent blog bit, and so here it is!

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In reworking the lyrics to Lennon’s song, I decided to expose the tyranny that lies behind the dippy hippie, lovey-dovey utopian lyrics. In other words, the dystopian reality hiding in the wings and waiting to step in and take over when “the world will be as one”.

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However, in reimagining the words to ‘Imagine’, I was thinking even more about the coming ‘New World Order’ than I was about the history of Communism. In his truly essential book ‘None Dare Call It Treason – 25 Years Later’, John Stormer wrote the following:

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The Communist world revolution has been largely financed from its start in 1903 until the present day by American wealth, public and private... every Communist country in the world literally has a 'Made In The U.S.A.' stamp.
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Those International Bankers who gave the world Communism actually have bigger fish to fry, and Communism was merely a stepping stone to something even much worse – the ‘New World Order’ (NWO). And if we can believe what Jesus said, when the single Global Government, or ‘New World Order’, is finally installed “there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.” [Matthew 24:21-22]

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That is to say, the coming ‘New World Order’ is going to be even more horrendous, by far, than Communism was (is). The principal difference between Communism and the NWO is that the NWO will have a demonic spiritual component to it that purely secular Marxism lacks.

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Alright, here’s how the ex-Beatle wrote the song:

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‘IMAGINE’ by John Lennon

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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...

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Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

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You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

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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...

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You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

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And now I’ll post my more accurate version of the song, but first I need to define a couple of things for some of my non-regular readers.

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The people who ordinarily read this blog are quite intelligent and highly educated with a sound knowledge of world history and the U.S. Constitution. So the following definitions are not meant for them, but for any lesser informed visitors who might stumble upon this blog bit in the future:

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The expression “pie in the sky” was originally coined by a Socialist named Joe Hill, and it basically means: Completely unrealistic expectations of a future reward or eventual positive outcome.

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One definition of the word “undone” is: “brought to destruction or ruin”. [Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary]

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OK, now everybody’s ready.

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‘IMAGINE’ by John Lenin

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Imagine there's no money
It's easy if you try
No shoes below you
Above you only pie
Imagine all the sheeple
Working without pay

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Imagine there's no handguns
It isn't hard, you foo’
Nothing you could rebel with
And no freedom for you
Imagine all the sheeple
Craving milk and meat

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You may say I'm a schemer
But I'm not the only one
I know someday you'll fear us
And the world will be undone

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Imagine no possessions
‘Cept what I took from you
No need for bread or circus:
Your playing days are through
Imagine all the sheeple
Sharing all the pain

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You may say I'm a schemer
But I'm not the only one
I know someday you'll fear us
And the world will be undone

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And there you have it – the truth behind the Pop poop.

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Incidentally, if you’re not already ‘Following’ the political blog BACK IN THE USSR, I highly recommend you do so. It’s a smart examination of contemporary issues that often mixes in a good deal of humor with which to balance the bad news.

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy 

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