War on pot rejected by voters

[Myra Bronstein]

Magda,
Bob Marley was indeed a very large threat to the PTB.Unlike John Lennon,who was involved with an already awakened Peace and justice movement,Marley was just starting to awaken the African Continent.Marley could very well have been the most dangerous political voice in the late seventies.I have always thought that his death at what(37),to be a probable hit.He had already been shot once in an attempt to silence him.

And then there's the story of William Colbys son visiting Bob and bringing him a precious new pair of boots.:eek:


"I don't know how we and dem gonna work this out"

Bob Marley-"We and Dem"

Keith, Magda,

I am so glad that Bob Marley is on your radar. The assassination attempt, wherein a gunman broke into his home and shot everyone present, receives too little attention. Bob Marley himself receives too little attention. Like John Lennon, Marley was a powerful cultural force.

"So influential a cultural icon had Marley become on his home island by the mid-Seventies that Time magazine proclaimed, “He rivals the government as a political force.” On December 5, 1976, Marley was scheduled to give a free “Smile Jamaica” concert, aimed at reducing tensions between warring political factions. Two days before the scheduled concert, he and his entourage were attacked by gunman. Though Bob and Rita Marley were grazed by bullets, they electrified a crowd of 80,000 people when both took to the stage with the Wailers on the 5th - a gesture of survival that only heightened Marley’s legend. It further galvanized his political outlook, resulting in the most militant albums of his career: Exodus, Survival and Uprising."
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/bob-marley

I can't image that the CIA run Time magazine was happy about that influence.

I attached the famous photo of Marley bringing Michael Manley and Edward Seaga's together at the One Love concert 'cause... it seems relevant.
http://www.rasta-man-vibration.com/michael-manley.html
"Philip Agee, former CIA officer (as interviewed in the DVD Marley documentary, "Rebel Music") confirms that the CIA was supplying guns and anti-PNP propaganda to the conservative JLP. (Some Jamaican's began calling Seaga "CIAga.") In this interview Agee states, "The CIA would look upon the radical political content of reggae as dangerous because it would help to create a consciousness among the poor people, the great majority of Jamaicans."

I have not seen "Rebel Music," yet.

I haven't had time to look through it much, but this looks like an interesting forum:
http://bobmarley.prospero.com/n/pfx/foru...=bobmarley