By Connie Sampson

John Lennon

Dec 8, 2010 | 3:55 PM

John Lennon died thirty years ago. So?

Why do some people get all teary-eyed over a man who was a good song writer, but not much else? Gershwin was a good song writer. Who weeps for him? Rodgers and Hammerstein, Haydn, Mozart – heck, even Gilbert and Sullivan were good song writers for their time.

Lennon is remembered for the cliche, “Give peace a chance”. What? Were the rest of us out there trying to create wars; trying to see some of the very best of our young men and women blown up?

Does anyone – as much as it would be wonderful beyond belief – actually believe wars will ever end? God said wars would last until the end of the earth. He has more authority and credibility than John Lennon, who claimed to be better known than Christ and wasn’t.

Lennon used drugs and encouraged kids to use them too. He sat at the feet of a genuine swami – to what end? He lay in bed spouting more cliches and nonsense in a television show. Otherwise intelligent people wore sombre faces and said “Right on”.

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Come on.

Had he lived, he would have been spouting 30 year-old ‘wisdom’ – of which he had precious little. He would probably be as bloated, mindless creature like his good buddy Sir Paul MacCartney – burned out on drugs. He might well be throwing millions away on divorces from the likes of MacCartney’s last wife ‘what’s her name’ – you know the one. She was the big mouth who lay on the ice crying over baby seals until one came close to biting her.

I said it then and I say it now to every basically uninformed famous personality who weeps over big brown eyes in cute animals. There are millions and millions of starving children everywhere. There are millions of children in Africa, infected with AIDS at birth. There are kids on street corners in Thailand, serving as child prostitutes. There are millions in slavery, in factories, as child soldiers, not knowing what it’s all about. There are kids on the streets and slums of big cities everywhere in North America, South America and Europe. We are urged to adopt children shown picking over garbage for food all over the world every day.

No food. No clean water to drink. No education. No opportunities.

Give peace a chance? How about giving them a chance?