After the curtain went up on the Leftist street theatre in
Paris calling itself a "unity" march following the Charlie
Hebdo-Jewish market massacre, there was a point at which the mask dropped. While spectators might have been trying to
figure out what, if anything, the march was showing "unity" for or
against -- besides being against Marine Le Pen, who was not invited, and
against Benjamin Netanyahu, who, we later discovered, was urged not to come --
marchers lifted their voices to accompany loudspeakers blasting
"Imagine." The face of "unity" was visible for all to see.
I'm referring, of course, to John Lennon's "Imagine," that maudlin pop-anthem to global Marxian negationisn." ...Imagine there's no countries ... nothing to kill or die for ... no religion too ... no possessions ... no need for greed or hunger ... Imagine all the people/Sharing all the world..."
With this anthem, the symbolic message of the march becomes unmistakable. Accordingly, it made perfect sense for the French Socialist powers-that-be to fail to invite Front National leader Le Pen, whose party is supported by over 25 percent of the French electorate, and also to urge Prime Minister Netanyahu to stay home in Israel. These two leaders would have ruined the "Imagine " message. Read More »
I'm referring, of course, to John Lennon's "Imagine," that maudlin pop-anthem to global Marxian negationisn." ...Imagine there's no countries ... nothing to kill or die for ... no religion too ... no possessions ... no need for greed or hunger ... Imagine all the people/Sharing all the world..."
With this anthem, the symbolic message of the march becomes unmistakable. Accordingly, it made perfect sense for the French Socialist powers-that-be to fail to invite Front National leader Le Pen, whose party is supported by over 25 percent of the French electorate, and also to urge Prime Minister Netanyahu to stay home in Israel. These two leaders would have ruined the "Imagine " message. Read More »
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