Petition

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

Feel free delete if this is too off-topic...



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

[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.