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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1057901, member: 19065&quot;]Mac, I sense that your strong opinion is one that may be coming from&nbsp; that of a soldier. If that is so, I wish to thank you for your service.</p><p><br /></p><p>The public image and plight of soldiers in that era suffered great&nbsp; disrespect, but it was a challenging time when many things were strongly&nbsp; debated and questioned, and MANY different types of people suffered&nbsp; many injustices as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my earlier comments, I assumed nothing. I only stated facts, which&nbsp; you are clearly uninterested in hearing about as they are only bringing&nbsp; up feelings about someone who symbolized something else that irritates&nbsp; you to this day. I don&#039;t want to digress into a personal debate about&nbsp; you and your opinions but they seem to be the very basis for expressing&nbsp; yourself against this coin, this symbol and that man as a symbol for&nbsp; many things that you feel differently about, making this thread a&nbsp; platform for you to air your own grievance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lennon touched many people, enough that those admirers of coins and&nbsp; Lennon around today along with the program from the UK Royal Mint&nbsp; together found enough interest in issuing a cultural commemorative&nbsp; piece. Lennon was inarguably a definer of popular culture, music culture&nbsp; and political culture of that time. He has thus been honored in his&nbsp; home country with this coin, not by the U.S. nor the U.S. Mint,&nbsp; regardless of his rebellion in or toward the UK and abroad. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here we are not talking about you, but rather a person who struggled to&nbsp; live his own life like any other individual, he just happened to be a&nbsp; celebrity and had to deal with the media and politicians for being a&nbsp; rebellious vocal celebrity. He eventually chose to pursue his own&nbsp; freedoms in the U.S. and did so by legally seeking residency like any&nbsp; other immigrant must do to this country. There&#039;s a recent film that&nbsp; would be good for anyone interested in this topic to see: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqHwF3vFbkc&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqHwF3vFbkc&amp;feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">The US vs. John Lennon</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The facts of his petition for permanent residency in the U.S. are&nbsp; another matter here entirely. It was of course a VERY public and long&nbsp; drawn out case which received a lot of media attention. There were also&nbsp; many obstacles placed in this path by the administration then in charge&nbsp; of this country that created many financial difficulties for him to&nbsp; overcome, but which ultimately did not restrict his entry into the U.S.&nbsp; as a permanent resident alien.</p><p><br /></p><p>After many trials, the final decision was made in Lennon&#039;s favor. The&nbsp; Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeal expressed the following in this&nbsp; decision</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;If, in our two hundred years of independence, we have in some measure&nbsp; realized our ideals, it is in large part because we have always found a&nbsp; place for those committed to the spirit of liberty and willing to help&nbsp; implement it. Lennon&#039;s four-year battle to remain in our country is&nbsp; testimony to his faith in this American dream.</p><p><br /></p><p>Accordingly, the denial of Lennon&#039;s application for adjustment of status&nbsp; and the order of deportation are vacated and the case remanded for&nbsp; reconsideration in accordance with the views expressed in this opinion.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This statement and full details are a matter of public record and can be found online here: <a href="http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/527/527.F2d.187.18.74--2189.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/527/527.F2d.187.18.74--2189.html" rel="nofollow">United States Court of Appeals No. 18. Docket 74-2189</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When asked on camera by journalists if he (Lennon) bore and grudge&nbsp; against the politicians and offices of the United States that sought to&nbsp; deport him and prevent him from obtaining residency, Lennon said after&nbsp; hearing the decision in his favor, &quot;I believe time wounds all heals.&quot; A&nbsp; bit of truthful humor from an eloquent speaker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite my offering of all of these further facts which you don&#039;t want&nbsp; to hear and discuss, I will make it even easier for you to win your <i>Lennon was an anti-American argument</i>…&nbsp; while he never had the chance to become an American citizen and it&nbsp; remains an unknown whether he would have ever sought that designation,&nbsp; and despite being born English and never exactly rejecting that&nbsp; nationality either, he was a person who in response to his world in&nbsp; chaos, came to question the rationality of claiming <u>any</u> nationality dividing and defining all of mankind… You must know the lyrics from his most popular song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg" rel="nofollow">Imagine</a>,&nbsp; &quot;Imagine there&#039;s no countries. It isn&#039;t hard to do. Nothing to kill or&nbsp; die for.&quot; That is perhaps the strongest &quot;anti-American&quot; statement he&nbsp; ever made and one which could work for everyone if we just give peace a&nbsp; chance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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