banking services chronicle january 2021 pdf

 banking services chronicle january 2021 pdf

banking services chronicle january 2021 pdf published this article  The organizers hoped the Free John Now Rally would be a major event drawing attention to the grave injustice that kept Sinclair locked up. But filling the 15000seat arena worried Sinclair. So I was very concerned. I thought it would be awful if we staged this huge thing and nobody came and then theyd say Oh man this guy aint nowhere. Nobody cares about him Sinclair recalled. Then one of his lawyers from Ann Arbor visited Sinclair at Jackson and told him about a surprising phone call he had just gotten. Sinclairs lawyer told him Oh man I really got good news. John Lennon is going to come. Hes written a song for you. Sinclair scoffed at the claim saying Man dont mess with me. Im already at my wits end here. The lawyer went back to his office called Lennon tape recorded his offer to help then went back to the prison the next day and played it for Sinclair. It was just unbelievable. Youre in prison. People in prison are pretty much abandoned. Abandon all hope ye who enter here Sinclair laughed. Lennon showed up and sang his new song John Sinclair to a soldout crowd. Immediately the whole complexion of my situation changes Sinclair recalled. Instead of people saying Why doesnt he just shut up and serve his 10 years all of a sudden theyre saying Well jeeze John Lennon says this is wrong maybe we ought to think about this. You know the Beatles are coming here to look into this guys case. Everything changed. Ten days later I was out. It was like a miracle. Out of the slammer Sinclair went to New York to meet and thank John Lennon. He wasnt above anyone even though he was probably the greatest popular creative artist in the world at the time. He was just a regular guy a beautiful cat. We hit it off pretty good. Lennon and Sinclair thought of a project to go on a concert tour following Nixon on his 1972 reelection campaign. Theyd sell tickets for three bucks and give the money to community organizations. The poor guy wanted to have songs and tell people to make peace. You know really ugly stuff like that Sinclair said. But J. Edgar Hoovers FBI and Attorney General John Mitchells Justice Department were going to put a stop to those plans. Hoover and Mitchell both serial felons by the way got the Immigration and Naturalization Service to tell Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono both foreign nationals that they were going to have visa problems unless they stopped mixing politics with pop music. First the government hounded him out of public life. And then when he decided to come back some nut blew him away Sinclair said. You just shudder to think of this. He was my age. He would have had another 25 years of productivity genius works of art. Its so sad. Sinclair finds the violence and gun culture of America appalling. Youd think at one point theyd rethink the concept of everybody being armed.

 banking services chronicle january 2021 pdf