Imagine there's no Heaven

В связи с очередными баталиями в параллельной ленте между пятой и шестой палатой вспомнилась старая история:

In 1972, the Richard Nixon Administration sought to silence Lennon by trying to have him deported from the U.S., as Nixon believed that Lennon's support for George McGovern could lose him the next election.[127] Republican Senator Strom Thurmond suggested in a February 1972 memo that "deportation would be a strategic counter-measure" against Lennon.[128] The next month the Immigration and Naturalization Service began deportation proceedings against Lennon, arguing that his 1968 misdemeanour conviction for cannabis possession in London had made him ineligible for admission to the U.S. Lennon spent the next four years in deportation hearings.

On 23 March 1973, Lennon was ordered to leave the U.S. within 60 days, while Ono was granted permanent residence.[130] In response, Lennon and Ono held a press conference at the New York American Bar Association on 1 April 1973 to announce the formation of the conceptual state of "Nutopia"; a place with "no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people", and all of its inhabitants would be ambassadors.[131] The Lennons asked for political asylum in the U.S. while waving the white flag of Nutopia: two white handkerchiefs. The entire press conference can be seen in the 2006 Lion's Gate movie The U.S. vs. John Lennon.[132] In June 1973, Lennon and Ono made their last political statement by attending the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C.[133]