Sandy Hook
Saturday, June 26, 2010
1960s More and Less: Pete Seeger
From Advice You Didn't Seek
My greatest conern is that between the now legally permissible conduct of the intelligence agencies within the US and the Supreme Court’s willingness to uphold laws that designate organizations and people as terrorist or terror-supporting, we are threatened by our own government’s conduct unnecessarily. Every now and then I see something that tells my story better than I can.
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With the newer laws we have today, Seeger and others would have been in jail immediately. We all know freedom of speech took a hit.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the memories, Leslie. I met Pete on a few occasions, as he sang at peace hrallies I helped organize. He was an unassuming man with a ready smile and a gentle nature.
ReplyDeleteTom: Seeger did have the courage to stand up to McCarthy and his group of thugs. I think the climate is ripe for another such debacle.
ReplyDeleteTC: I'd give my eye teeth to meet, sit and chat with Pete Seeger. He has been my hero for decades.
Great video!!
ReplyDelete...we are threatened by our own government’s conduct unnecessarily.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Supremes declared corporations "people" something in me broke. I figure things are going to get much worse before they ever get better. So worse that what Seeger went through will be considered a cake walk.
The Navigator on the Enola Gay, Rudolf Nureyev, Bobby Kennedy, James Earl Jones, Pete Seeger. . .Frodo has crossed some golden paths, indeed. Pete's path is strewn with flowers, everyone.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. It is indeed a very disturbing time. I just hope our fears are proven to be unwarranted.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen him for 40 years, Leslie. I doubt that he'd even remember me.
ReplyDelete"With the newer laws we have today, Seeger and others would have been in jail immediately."
ReplyDeleteYes, he'd be rotting in prison along with Michael Moore, Kos and all of the other dissenters who have been in prison for years now.