Yoko in Iceland

John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, unveiled something called the "Imagine Peace Tower" on an island near Reykjavik, Iceland on what would have been John Lennon’s 67th Birthday. One would hope she refrained from singing.

Apparently, light will emanate from this monument in an eco-friendly manner each year from October 9 (Lennon’s Birthday) until December 8 (the day he was shot). If I lived in Iceland, I think I would rather see the aurora in the night sky, but, alas, I’m not an Icelander.

What really grated was when I heard on NPR that Yoko intoned that the enslaved and persecuted will be there each year, "in spirit," or some such nonsense. Would that John Lennon had never penned the execrable "Imagine," the lyrics of which glorify communism, the ideology that enslaved and persecuted more people than even National Socialism. Maybe then I’d be listening.

IMAGINE:
“No heaven”= atheism
“No possessions”=communism; dictatorship of the proletariat
“No countries”=international communism; one world government
“No possessions”=communist abolition of private property

Here are my rewritten lyrics to this song:

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
What's right and what's wrong,
defined by the strongest guy,
Imagine all the people
bleeding in the streets...

Imagine there's no country,
It's easy if you dare,
Constantly on the run,
from tribal warfare,
Imagine all the people
in a Hobbesian nightmare...

You may say I'm a liberal,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will die as one.


Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No food and no shelter,
A famine in every land,
Imagine all the babies
Dying all over the world...

You may say I'm a liberal,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
The founding fathers' work will be undone.

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