Petition

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

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Channel Four in Britain plans on showing a documentary in which Mark David Chapman, the vicious, bloodthirsty man who assassinated John Lennon in cold blood back in 1980, gets to get airtime. When do they plan to air this travesty? December 8th, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lennon's death!

John Lennon spread peace, love, and understanding throughout the people that he knew and those that listened to his music. When he was brutally struck down in the prime of his life, he left behind a wife (Yoko), who was with him when he was shot. He also left behind a five-year-old son, Sean, and a seventeen-year-old son, Julian (from his first marriage to Cynthia Powell Lennon).

John Lennon never got to watch his sons graduate high school or attend college. He never got to see them grow up, get married and have their own children. He never got to pursue whatever musical and artistic pursuits he dreamed of achieving.

Why, then, should Mark David Chapman be given airtime to boast about his crime?! Chapman shot Lennon to achieve fame, he has confessed. Why give him what he desires?

If you agree that this program is outrageously inappropriate and disgraceful to Mr. Lennon's memory, as well as to his family, friends, and fans, please sign my petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/karma05

There is also another petition circulating on the same matter:

http://www.petitiononline.com/number9

Please sign both. Thank you for your time!

Comments

[izuko.livejournal.com]

Signed in memory of a great one.

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sparrowrose.livejournal.com]

John Lennon spread peace, love, and understanding throughout the people that he knew and those that listened to his music.

And allegedly funded terrorist organizations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/649397.stm

What's so wrong about giving Chapman airtime? Mightn't there be people who are curious to hear what he has to say? When the shooting happened, I knew many people (myself included) who said, "why? Why would anybody want to shoot John Lennon?" Don't those people have a right to hear what Chapman has to say for himself? For all anyone knows, Chapman wants to apologize.

As for airing it on the anniversary of John Lennon's death, that kind of seems appropriate considering Chapman caused it. It's not much different from airing a Charlie Manson interview on the anniversay of the LaBianca murders.

Vulgar or not, people are interested in seeing and hearing despicable murderers. Were I to strive to censor their ability to view such things, I could never again complain with impunity about those who write letters and strive to get shows I enjoy, like The Shield, taken off the air. I don't like censorship when others try to practice it on my viewing choices so I can't very well support trying to censor someone else's choice of viewing material. If I don't like what other people are watching, I have the option of turning the channel.

beyond all this, Yoko sold the blood-spattered glasses John was wearing when he died (and put a photo of them on the cover of one of her albums.) Could this documentary possibly exceed that level of tackiness? I somehow doubt it.

[queenemeraldas8.livejournal.com]

As for airing it on the anniversary of John Lennon's death, that kind of seems appropriate considering Chapman caused it. It's not much different from airing a Charlie Manson interview on the anniversay of the LaBianca murders.

I agree. Same goes for the film One Day in September.

-Nicole

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

Actually, it doesn't. That is a COMPLETELY different thing. Airing a film about an EVENT is one thing, airing an interview with a convicted murderer is a very different one.

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

Lennon may have made mistakes in the early seventies regarding whom he associated himself with, but by the time he was murdered the only thing he was *funding* was charities for spastic children. He also donated funds to get the NYPD bullet-proof vests.

We've HEARD what Chapman has to say, time and time again. It's "oh pity me, I am a sad sad man, I did not mean it" or "Lennon was a liberal, he would want me released!" No one wants to hear that again. Yoko doesn't want it aired, May Pang doesn't want it aired, and we can fully show Channel Four that no one wants to listen to that waste of space whine and plead for Yoko to let him get out again.

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

Also - we as Republicans believe in the rule of law and not supporting murderers over their victims. Need you be reminded?

Also, Yoko did not "sell" the glasses, she donated them to a museum in Cleveland. Quite different. And you have no right to judge Mrs. Lennon when all she is trying to do is stop her husband from being drug through the mud again with this disgusting documentary. There should not be Charles Manson interviews, either. I thought that the idea of prison was not to give brutal murderers extra airtime so that they can suplement their fame.

[sparrowrose.livejournal.com]

Once I read it twice and saw that it was BBC, I couldn't care less what they decide to do. I believe in the sovereignty of the British media - it is not my place to sign petitions or otherwise attempt to meddle in the media of another country - that is their own affair and they should do with it as they will.

I am not involved in this issue one way or the other.

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

So, other countries should be allowed to completely undermine values and be free from critique?! We're not allowed to criticize another country anymore?! Even if they do something disgusting, tasteless and wrong?!

[sparrowrose.livejournal.com]

When it comes to their cultural choices, no. I'm not going to tell another country what to do. It tweaks me off when people from Canada and France try to tell us what we can show on our televisions - why would I try to dictate what England can show on theirs? What kind of Nazi do you take me for?

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

I'm not telling England what they CAN show, I'm telling them what they SHOULD show.

[phoenix-starr.livejournal.com]

What's the difference? I don't think it is any of our buisness as citizens of the USA. I know for one it royally pisses me off when they try to meddle over here. I, for one, won't do the reverse. Perhaps it is "wrong" or tacky this guy speaking up on the air, but it's something Brits need to speak up about.