[转帖]列侬逝世25周年

约翰·温斯顿·列侬是英国著名摇滚乐队“甲壳虫”（TheBeatles）成员、诗人、社会活动家。 1940年10月9日：列侬生于利物浦的一个破碎家庭，由姨妈养大，早年就读于利物浦艺术学院。 1956年：列侬结识了14岁的保罗·麦卡特尼，他们志同道合，打算组建一个乐队。 1958年：保罗的好友，16岁的乔治·哈里森加入乐队。从此，甲壳虫乐队基本成型。

　　披头士由四个来自英国利物浦工人家庭青年组成，他们初期在利物浦的酒吧里驻唱，轻松自由的歌曲风格让他们在利物浦小有名气，后来他们被音乐经纪人发现，重新打造后远征美国，投身于摇滚故乡风风火火的摇滚奠基运动，并终于成为了众所公认的摇滚乐鼻祖。披头士创作的歌词也往往通俗易记，却往往能用最直白的语言蕴含最为深刻的思想，以青年独有的率真本色和直露的反叛姿态与同龄青年取得着心灵沟通。

　　约翰·列侬是披头士的灵魂人物，也是摇滚乐史上最为伟大的人物。约翰列侬词曲创作的才华源源不绝，在披头士时代列侬就已经出了四张个人专辑，60年代末披头士乐队解散之后，列侬发展起个人音乐事业，在妻子大野洋子的影响下，他大大改变了音乐风格，音乐中多了很多政治主张的内容，旋律也从优美流畅变得更加简约有力。而在1980年的12月8日，约翰·列侬不幸被歌迷枪击，飘然而去。

列侬迷放言：凶手若出狱就“修理”他

2004年10月07日 北京青年报　韩非

　　据美国有线新闻网（CNN）10月6日的报道，24年前将披头士乐队灵魂乐手约翰·列侬枪杀的凶手马克·戴维·查普曼日前再次被拒假释，这已是他坐牢之后第三次提出假释请求并遭驳回。值得一提的是，列侬如果还活着，那么这个星期六（10月9日）就是他的64岁生日，因此，查普曼的假释申请在这个时候被驳回也就显得格外醒目。

　　据悉，查普曼此次被拒假释的一个主要原因仍然是因为列侬的遗孀大野洋子向纽约州假释管理处提交了一份书面报告，请求驳回查普曼的申请。这份报告与前两次提交的一模一样。大野洋子在请求中说：“如果现在把查普曼释放，那么我本人以及列侬的两个孩子的余生都不会有安全感，甚至连约翰的在天之灵也不会感到安全的。”大野洋子在请求书中说，列侬的被杀“改变了我的人生，摧毁了他的两个儿子的情感世界，给全世界带来了至今难以愈合的伤痛和恐惧”。

　　针对查普曼此次提出假释申请，共有超过6000名列侬迷在网上联合签名请愿，坚决反对释放枪杀列侬的凶手。有些人在请愿书中还声称，如果查普曼如愿以偿获得假释，那么他们将对他不客气，通过各种方式来“修理”他。

　　目前，查普曼已服刑24年。按照当初的判决以及相关法律规定，在服刑满20年后，查普曼有权获得假释。2000年和2002年，他曾两次提出假释申请，但是每次都被驳回。他下一次有资格提出假释申请的时间为2006年10月。

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The real story behind John Lennon's terrible murder is a search for identity - both by John Lennon himself, and by his killer, Mark David Chapman.

Mark Chapman clearly suffered delusional paranoid schizophrenia, and was receiving psychiatric help during 1979 and 1980. Feeling his very existence was being threatened, he had attempted suicide twice.

He became increasingly fixated on both Holden Caulfield (the fictional hero of J D Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye") and John Lennon, the rock legend. He told his wife he was going to change his name to "Holden Caulfield", but, at the same time, signed himself out of work as "John Lennon".

In the end, Chapman believed he was living a life that mirrored that of Holden Caulfield and mirrored the unreal superstar life of John Lennon. Chapman was confused and paranoid about who he really was, and perhaps in killing John Lennon, he was trying to kill himself.

Like all paranoid schizophrenics, Mark David Chapman, was convinced the world around him was revealing hidden secrets to him. He had been chosen, like a Messiah, to fulfil a special mission. He was being given clear and unequivocal signs that nobody else could see or understand.

These signs were concealed in the text of magazines and books he read； they were displayed on television in hidden symbols； they were painted in the art-work he began to collect during 1979, and they were buried in the lyrics of songs he listened to. Only he could interpret the significance of these signs.

And Chapman believed a special synchronicity was bringing history and time together. He was amazed at the coincidences that followed him everywhere he went, because they proved he had been chosen for this mission.

The real story behind John Lennon's terrible murder is a search for identity - John Lennon himself, was emerging from almost 5 years of self-imposed "exile". He was paranoid about whether he could still succeed, at 40 years of age, as a solo rock star. Would the world accept him as John Lennon, or demand he still retain the "ex-Beatle" tag?

The lyrics of "Double Fantasy" show all the signs of John Lennon's anxiety, and for Chapman they revealed a more chilling significance.

Follow the links below to explore the rest of this site, and follow the intriguing possibility that John Lennon and his killer were being drawn together by strange forces - call it Fate, call it Destiny, call it Synchronicity.

This is the fascinating story of two spirits dancing so strange, coming together in a tragic and fatal confrontation.

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-12-11 14:03:40编辑过]

这一篇又蒙上了一些神秘色彩。（英文不好的朋友不要砸我，只想多提供些资料而已）
Who Killed John Lennon?

by Fenton Bresler Part 1 of 2 [Excerpts]

"Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot." John Lennon

Part 1

Bresler begins by questioning the "lone nut" theory. Since 1835, 15 men and 2 women have attacked "nationally prominent political leaders in sixteen separate incidents." Of those 17, only 3 have been ruled insane by law. Mark David Chapman was never found to be legally insane. "The 'lone nut' theory simply does not stand up as an all-embracing explanation covering all -- or even most -- instances of American political assassination."

Bresler offers the possibility that "Lennon, the politically most active rock star of his generation... was shot dead outside his own home by a killer who was merely a tool, a human gun used and controlled by others to destroy a uniquely powerful radical figure who was likely to prove a rallying point for mass opposition to the policies soon to be implemented... by the new United States government headed by Ronald Reagan."

Bresler quotes the late radio journalist Mae Brussell, who broke the Watergate story 2 months before the Woodward-Bernstein expose'. Brussell had no doubts: "It was a conspiracy. Reagan had just won the election. They knew what kind of president he was going to be. There was only one man who could bring out a million people on demonstration in protest at his policies -- and that was Lennon."

Bresler speculates that Chapman was a "Manchurian Candidate," brainwashed and pre-programmed to kill on command. When the moment had arrived, Chapman received his signal and performed his task.




The CIA and Mind Control

In April 1950, the CIA began work on PROJECT BLUEBIRD, the agency's fledgling attempt at mind control. "Within two years this had progressed into the substantially enlarged PROJECT ARTICHOKE. According to a later CIA internal memorandum, PROJECT ARTICHOKE was intended to 'exploit operational lines, scientific methods and knowledge that can be utilized in altering the attitudes, beliefs, thought processes and behaviour patterns of agent personnel. This will include the application of tested psychiatric and psychological techniques including the use of hypnosis in conjunction with drugs.' In turn, only one year later, in April 1953, PROJECT ARTICHOKE became MKULTRA, the generic name for a series of on-going investigations by the agency's Technical Services Staff."

Some might object that pre-programming a subject to be a "killer on command" violates the common wisdom that one cannot be hypnotised to do something that is contray to one's individual morals. Yet not all "experts" are in agreement on this. For example Milton Kline, a New York psychologist and former president of the American Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis believes it is *not* impossible to create a "Manchurian Candidate." According to Kline, "It cannot be done by everyone. It cannot be done consistently, but it can be done."

"There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and 'on hold', can be triggered into action."




Sirhan Sirhan

Bresler suggests that Sirhan Sirhan, the supposed lone assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was a pre-programmed killer. Seven years after the RFK assassination, Sirhan was interviewed by psychiatrists. These recorded interviews were analyzed with the help of a Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE), a device which measures micro-tremors in the voice. Based on the PSE, former high-ranking intelligence officer Charles McQuiston stated: "I'm convinced that Sirhan wasn't aware of what he was doing. He was in a hypnotic trance when he pulled the trigger... Everything in the PSE charts tells me that someone else was involved in the assassination -- and that Sirhan was programmed through hypnosis to kill RFK. What we have here is a real live 'Manchurian Candidate.'"

After examining Sirhan's PSE charts, Dr. John W. Heisse, Jr., president of the International Society of Stress Analysis, agreed with McQuiston: "Sirhan kept repeating certain phrases. This clearly revealed he had been programmed to put himself into a trance."

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Who Killed John Lennon?

by Fenton Bresler Part 2 of 2

"Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident."
John Lennon

Part 2

Government Surveillance

During a December, 1971 rally at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), undercover FBI agents recorded remarks made by Lennon and others. This is only one case of many, all pointing to a pattern of consistent governmental spying upon Lennon. Under the Freedom of Information Act, Bresler obtained U.S. government files on Lennon. The files show that Lennon was under constant government surveillance, especially during the years 1971-1972.

For example, in an April 10, 1972 memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the FBI's New York office, Hoover orders his agents to "...promptly initiate discrete efforts to locate subject [Lennon] and remain aware of his activities and movements. Handle inquiries only through established sources... Careful attention should be given to reports that subject is heavy narcotics user and any information developed in this regard should be furnished to narcotics authorities and immediately furnished to bureau in form suitable for dissemination."

"Lennon knew from early in 1972 that he was under constant surveillance, being followed in the streets and with his telephone tapped." The ex-Beatle was aware of the surveillance by secret police agencies and so stated on several occasions. For example, in December 1975 he told one interviewer, "We knew we were being wire-tapped... there was a helluva lot of guys coming in to fix the phones."

"Moral Turpitude"

One of the methods used by the U.S. government to harass Lennon was the threat of deportation. The government had extra leverage in its efforts due to a previous conviction against Lennon which charged him with "moral turpitude." On October 18, 1968, in Britain, Lennon and Ono had been arrested and charged with possession of 1.5 ounces of marijuana. Two weeks before the bust, Lennon had been warned that the police were out to get him because he was a "loudmouth." As a precaution, he had (as he put it) "cleaned the house out [of drugs]." Nevertheless, marijuana was found in the house by the police. According to Lennon, he had been set up. His opinion is backed up by the fact that the arresting officer was later sentenced to two years in prison for planting evidence in other cases.

In order that Ono would not be charged, Lennon "copped a plea". Charges against Yoko Ono were dropped and Lennon was fined and found guilty of "an offence of moral turpitude."

At the time of their arrest, Yoko Ono was pregnant and almost suffered a miscarriage. Although she was immediately hospitalized, a month later she lost the baby. "On being told the end of their child's unborn life was near, Lennon had a tape recorder brought into the hospital room and, with a stethoscope microphone, he recorded his second son's failing heartbeats before he died."

Political Activism

Examples of Lennon's political activism are seen in songs such as "Give Peace a Chance," "Power to the People," and "Working Class Hero." In an interview published in *Rolling Stone* (and later as a book entitled *Lennon Remembers*), Lennon called the song "Working Class Hero" a "...song for the revolution... It's for the people like me who are working class."

In the interview, Lennon further states that "...the people who are in control and in power, and the class system and the whole bullshit bourgeois scene is exactly the same except that there are a lot of middle-class kids with long hair walking around in trendy clothes... The same bastards are in control, the same people are runnin' everything... They're doing exactly the same things, selling arms to South Africa, killing blacks on the street, people are living in fucking poverty with rats crawling all over them. It's the same. It just makes you puke."

"With Lennon, rock had become revolutionary -- and for real. He and Yoko took part in demonstrations, they campaigned for a public inquiry into the case of James Hanratty, convicted of murder and hanged in the early 1960s... they marched for the IRA [Irish Republican Army] and they called for help for striking shipbuilders."

The Invisible Assassins

Bresler interviewed Arthur O'Connor, the lieutenant who was commanding officer of the twentieth precinct of the New York police that dealt with Lennon's murder. He quotes O'Connor as saying, "As far as you are trying to build up some kind of conspiracy, I would support you in that line. Like I said originally over the phone, if this gentleman [Chapman] wanted to get away with it, he could have got away with it. There was the subway across the road and no one around to stop him."

Instead, once Chapman had accomplished his task, he calmly sat and waited for police to come.

"Why one method rather than the other, the amateur as against the professional? Because that way you avoid any awkward questions. If Lennon had been gunned down by a professional killer, the whole world would have known: suchft expert assassinations carry their own individual hallmark. It would have been obvious what had happened and, with Lennon's history of anti-government radical political activity, there would have been [an in-depth investigation]."

"But if you program an amateur to do the job, a so-called 'nut', very few questions are asked."

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