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no_hypocrisy

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5. Let me put it this way:

Reply to sadbear (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 12:36 PM

Jan 2013

It's unsubstantiated. There were elements in the Nixon Administration and the FBI who desperately tried to deport John Lennon in the Seventies. When the matter was dropped, it's possible to surmise that their sentiments to neutralize him didn't subside and they chose another method or venue to accomplish their goal.

Mark David Chapman was a man with delusions. I'm not saying Manchurian Candidate, but like John Hinckley Jr., his mental status could make him susceptible to suggestion and pliable in the hands of others. Possible, but not probable.

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Indeed lsewpershad Jan 2013 #1

Was John Lennon's murder political? sadbear Jan 2013 #2

I don't think so, but... caraher Jan 2013 #4

Let me put it this way: no_hypocrisy Jan 2013 #5

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