Jeff ‘Pacovilla’ Doyle posted his thoughts on the seventh denial of parole for Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon, the former Beetle.
Here is what Jeff wrote:
Paco is pleased Mr. Chapman will remain in prison, and not owing to any affinity for his victim. Rather, thanks largely to the evil doing of Mark David Chapman, one of the worst songs of all time was elevated to a virtual international anthem: John Lennon’s “Imagine.” I can’t stand the tune nor its barely melodic call for world communism.
Chapman once told the parole board he murdered Lennon thinking “by killing John Lennon I would become somebody and instead of that I became a murderer and murderers are not somebodies.’’ It’s a shame someone had to die for Chapman to come to this epiphany. It is also a shame a wretched, angry person like Lennon has been all but canonized as a result of the senseless murder.
And here is what his brother Greg ‘The Gadfly’ Doyle wrote:
You raise an excellent point, Paco, concerning the highly publicized and media-driven murderer of John Lennon. He remains a very enigmatic figure for me—I loved his talent and many of his songs he wrote with Paul McCartney, yet hated his self-righteous (look at me I’m a rich hippie genius who knows better than anyone else about life), leftist clap-trap. In my estimation, one of the few redeeming qualities about former president Richard Nixon was his reviling of John Lennon so passionately. But I digress.
What I believe is the most important aspect of this saga (as well as stories like Charles Manson and his ilk) is the notion of parole hearings for murderers who laid in wait, were involved in conspiracies in the commission of other felonious undertakings, or who kidnapped, tortured, brutalized, and mutilated their victims in the act of murder. This is an aspect of our laws that is not compassionate, reasonable, or just.
To think that our society would reward such heinous acts of inhumanity by first granting those worthy of the most severe condemnation an opportunity to live their lives out as wards of the State, and then offer them an opportunity (at a later date) to re-enter society as free citizens is unconscionable and inexcusable.
“Gee, I’m really very sorry I raped your grandma, set her on fire, and laughed while I played a guitar, but may I please be paroled? I promise to be good!” just doesn’t seem worthy of an audience, let alone a mandated hearing.
There used to be a moral code, a sense of decency tied to one’s accountability to God for one’s actions, were such heinous acts called for one’s life to be forfeit. The State was charged with the highest duty of carrying out the execution of the most heinous of murders. Now folks seem more concerned about the appearance of the State being inhumane to inhumane people, than the vile acts perpetrated on those whose lives were unlawfully taken away. Turn from accountability to God in the rule of law and the State fails in its divine duty to carry out one of its most solemn callings.
Perhaps, had he survived his assault at the hands of Mr. Chapman, John Lennon might have been obliged (on some less cerebral level) to reconsider his iconic lyrics—”Imagine there’s no Heaven…”
No. All I can imagine John saying now is “Oops!”
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