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  • čas přidán 9. 07. 2013
  • In this clip from 1965, folk singer and activist Pete Seeger talks about being black listed for "un-American activities" and his refusal to answer questions that violated his Constitutional Rights. For more classic clips, go to www.cbc.ca/archives
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Komentáře • 127

  • @him12672
    @him12672 Před 4 lety +133

    Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

    • @stormbringercoming8105
      @stormbringercoming8105 Před 2 lety

      Unless you’re doing it in Trudeau’s Canada these days!

    • @thimble347
      @thimble347 Před 2 měsíci

      Be careful, patriotism whether right or wrong appears to be very dangerous of an opinion to have in the current year.

  • @mixmmick
    @mixmmick Před rokem +24

    In my opinion, Pete Seeger got the last laugh. The man's spirit will live on while those gutless politicians are forgotten. RIP Mr Seeger

    • @dominicmogridge3920
      @dominicmogridge3920 Před 19 hodinami

      Beautiful words for a pioneer of our basic human rights.thankyou for your respect.he was my childhood hero too,and he sang the way we are being manipulated.been an inspiration all of my life.stay safe and lucky.maddog.protest musician in piano accordion. West cork.republuc of ireland

  • @dianehenkel9088
    @dianehenkel9088 Před 3 lety +43

    Thank you Pete for your courage and always standing up for us.

    • @VictorLepanto
      @VictorLepanto Před 2 lety

      He wasn't standing up for us when he & his commie friends supported the America 1st Committee b/c their Boss Stalin ordered them to after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
      This is an embarrassment Communists & their useful idiots like to drop down the memory hole.

  • @huiawalker203
    @huiawalker203 Před 2 lety +21

    An outstanding human being

  • @darinjames3313
    @darinjames3313 Před 3 lety +14

    I here that train a comin!....I ve just recently discovered Pete. It seems Im always a little late.....so I thank you for these awsome videos of a great Man.....

  • @landonmassey1454
    @landonmassey1454 Před 2 lety +12

    "Their idea of America is an America where everybody agrees with them"... Sounds familiar

  • @pendleton42
    @pendleton42 Před 4 lety +23

    we need my friend more than ever i miss Pete had many enjoyable summers at the sloop club and crewing the woody with him toshie and his spirit are in tears. as the nation fall apart.

  • @garrettchristopher3462
    @garrettchristopher3462 Před 2 lety +8

    You may not agree with his political views. He is a hero none the less.

  • @tonyfigs3935
    @tonyfigs3935 Před 2 lety +3

    Great guy - a REAL American - as in he believes in what America was founded on - dissent!

  • @stefansavic1579
    @stefansavic1579 Před 2 měsíci +1

    How come no side today ever metion this man. Wondefull man!

    • @SJGBII55
      @SJGBII55 Před měsícem

      American censorship is why

  • @CrowdPleeza
    @CrowdPleeza Před 3 lety +6

    What I want to know is how do musicians who get blacklisted by the government find out about this blacklisting? Do they receive a note from the gov't informing them of this blacklisting?

    • @goldbristow7239
      @goldbristow7239 Před 3 lety +6

      It's more like an overarching element of public disapproval. People who were blacklisted were often untouchable when it came to business, job opportunities and other means. For musicians, actors, and other artists, their publicity is a big part of their career, and blacklisting makes it so people know you were accused, and if plenty of people think you were "too unamerican", someone interacting with you might make *them* unamerican as well. It was a petty system upheld by a lot of studios, studio heads, production executives, and even Walt Disney was a HUAC piece of crap. And it really damaged a lot of people.

    • @goldbristow7239
      @goldbristow7239 Před 3 lety +3

      And to go on, damaged the lives and reputation of many innocent people who just wanted to speak their mind. But I guess that was unamerican to them.

    • @WooBino.
      @WooBino. Před 3 lety +1

      @@goldbristow7239 Al Franken

    • @kurt-foster5925
      @kurt-foster5925 Před 2 lety

      it's not hard to figure out, especially when the FBI men come around to where you're working and harass your employer until they fire you. this happened to my parents more than once when i was a kid. i can recall the FBI guys in their black suits and 4 door Fords parked across the street from my house when i would come home from school. they even went so far as to question my teachers and counselors at the schools i attended. it was always known to the whole student body that my parents were "commies".

    • @hashachar70
      @hashachar70 Před rokem

      @ CrowdPleeza: It was easy to know when you were blacklisted! You were written up in "Red Channels" and other hateful HUAC/Joseph McCarthy/American Gentile League/The John Birch Society/Fascism-supporting periodicals; You were fired from whatever job(s) you had or were going to have; You were denied being able to support your family in any way, shape or form; People were scared to be seen with you because they were afraid of being blacklisted by alleged association. The govt. did, indeed inform you that you were blacklisted.

  • @Danny__Noble
    @Danny__Noble Před 4 lety +7

    ❤️

  • @DavidByers1eye
    @DavidByers1eye Před rokem

    Thank You . . . 1 Eye . . . . .

  • @smgr7851
    @smgr7851 Před 4 lety +2

    «Pete Seeger on red channel, perjury, black listed, treason, bail, appeal court, being behind bars art and freedom, family, love and hope in America 1965: CBC Archives | CBC» why was the song cutted and bits edited: is this an archive record? preserve do not censor.

  • @fayewike7363
    @fayewike7363 Před měsícem

    Don McLean (American Pie) called Seeger out for his communist activism.
    He spoke of his family coming from Italy, escaping fascism/communism. He commented that Seeger was blessed by a rich man's view of the world and Don's of coming from a working class background.

  • @cumomsandcureloms
    @cumomsandcureloms Před 8 lety +3

    Is the interviewer Robert McNeil?

    • @hunglikeamouse1635
      @hunglikeamouse1635 Před 7 lety +3

      No, it's your mama

    • @arricammarques1955
      @arricammarques1955 Před 7 lety +6

      Patrick Watson : CBC during the 60's was decades ahead of CNN.

    • @JL0ndon
      @JL0ndon Před 4 lety +1

      James Byron Dean well CNN didn’t start as company until the 1980s

    • @cumomsandcureloms
      @cumomsandcureloms Před 4 lety

      @@JL0ndon What has that got to do with anything? McNeil was around for a long time before that. Learn some history!

    • @JL0ndon
      @JL0ndon Před 4 lety +3

      cumomsandcureloms i was responding to the comment above mine 🤦🏽‍♂️the person said CBC was decades ahead of CNN so i was making a joke that CNN was started in the 80s many years after CBC. I’m watching freaking pete Seeger interviews and Woody Guthrie docs so i am obviously trying to learn more history. There was no need to be snippy.

  • @vickigarcia2094
    @vickigarcia2094 Před 3 lety +2

    I have to wonder what he would think of America today, smdh...

  • @David53D
    @David53D Před 5 lety +22

    He expressed himself via song and lost work as a result.

    • @VictorLepanto
      @VictorLepanto Před 2 lety

      He opposed fighting Hitler in song in the 30s. Supporting the "anti-war" line of the Soviet Union when Hitler & Stalin were allies against Poland & all the other countries of Europe.
      Would you support a Hitler fan losing his job, or a Stalin fan?

    • @deadbeat9708
      @deadbeat9708 Před rokem

      @@VictorLepanto and he advocated for killing hitler in “round round hitlers grave” later on. He changed his stance and was always anti fascist. Shut up

  • @TheSnoopindaweb
    @TheSnoopindaweb Před 2 lety +1

    Maybe that's the price One pays when a patriot has to face a bunch of politicians? Yup! G-G

  • @robertmartinez4174
    @robertmartinez4174 Před 2 lety +8

    Don't Ever Let Anyone Take Away Your Free Speech 🇺🇸 👍

    • @VictorLepanto
      @VictorLepanto Před 2 lety

      He let Stalin take away his free speech in the 30s when his boss Stalin ordered him to destroy all his anti-war songs to support the Hitler-Stalin Pact.

  • @nobaloneymahoney7940
    @nobaloneymahoney7940 Před 3 lety +2

    Wowzer! Fast Forward to 3 days before 11.3.2020 Election and what 🇺🇸 has to choose from..

  • @Tocsin-Bang
    @Tocsin-Bang Před 5 měsíci +2

    A true American patriot. He stood up for the American Constitution. Not like X45 who wants to annul it.

  • @nedlambton6602
    @nedlambton6602 Před rokem

    Should have been indefinitely detained for taking himself too seriously and having an annoying face! 😂😂😂

  • @Tony-zs3sd
    @Tony-zs3sd Před 3 lety +1

    Land of the free. Yer ok

  • @jackmacfarren5346
    @jackmacfarren5346 Před rokem

    Hypocrit

    • @williamcollins9320
      @williamcollins9320 Před rokem +1

      You just never listened to his songs about terminating the constitution.
      You would love them ditties.

    • @colingordon8265
      @colingordon8265 Před rokem +1

      It's normally spelt with an 'e'.

  • @zakariahlafreniere6840
    @zakariahlafreniere6840 Před 6 lety +7

    Well hell the same First Amendment that allows freedom of speech would naturally allow the government to ask a citizen about possible connections to enemy governments? Duh. Common sense. Enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.

    • @Loftur1172
      @Loftur1172 Před 6 lety +55

      Zakariah LaFreniere the rights extend to the people, not the government. They're meant to protect us from government overreach, and for good reason. This is true for all citizens regardless of party affiliation. Would you agree?

    • @mylra4689
      @mylra4689 Před 5 lety +5

      As it turns out to Joe McCarthy was right about Alger Hiss being a communist. In fact the state department was filled with socialists, Communists and communist sympathizers. The Harvard School of government was filled with such people. Let's not forget that this was an age of Cold War. The Russians had gotten Atomic secrets from the research site at Alamogordo New Mexico. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were communist spies. After the fall of the Soviet Union when files were released it became clear how many Communists were in the United States government in high positions. Joe McCarthy paid number of serious mistakes and was no saint. However the left-wing universities and newspapers did a very good job of equating him with the Devil. He was no saint and he was no devil. He asked questions that needed to be asked.

    • @David53D
      @David53D Před 5 lety +33

      @@mylra4689 Seeger did nothing wrong and was blacklisted for exercising his constitutional rights as an American.

    • @taj4137
      @taj4137 Před 5 lety +22

      @@mylra4689
      Just because you prefer one economic system to another doesn't mean you're working with the enemy. It's like saying we the apple party have decided you're a traitor because you seem like you would like eating bananas instead, surely you must be a spy for the banana party.

    • @mylra4689
      @mylra4689 Před 5 lety +3

      @@taj4137 It was a Cold War. Stalin murdered millions. Thousands died in the Hungarian Rebellion in 1956. Religious folk were persecuted. No. I don't think it was about apples and bananas. Don't be so childish.

  • @TheAyeAye1
    @TheAyeAye1 Před 11 měsíci +2

    He was an honest to God Communist party member who didn't have anything bad to say about Stalin until long the Soviet government denounced him. The closest thing he ever had to say in an interview showing regret over actively working for a true monster was "It's better have loved and lost than never to have love at all." He was morally blind and an operative for one of the worst people to ever live. The ignorance on display in the comment section is because of the failure of the news media to call him out.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Před 10 měsíci +2

      Being a communist/or socialist in the 30's was not uncommon.

    • @wyattleske7487
      @wyattleske7487 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Name one soecificHeinous action Pete seegercomitted

  • @theslownorris7277
    @theslownorris7277 Před 4 lety +4

    50s Rightist morality is today's leftist morality. Moralistic, square, and over bearing. Trite, Hypocritical, and boorish. This tripe ages poorly.

    • @midimusicforever
      @midimusicforever Před 4 lety +14

      @paul w He's describing both sides. People today tend to be very non-intellectual. It's just "my team, your team". And it's on both sides. I know everyone isn't like that. Just far too many are.

    • @ff-qf1th
      @ff-qf1th Před 3 lety +6

      no, lmao. how is the right in the 50s in any way comparable to today's left?

    • @kspfan001
      @kspfan001 Před 2 lety

      I’m a Lefty Marxist and I would agree that there are a liberal/Radlib faction of the left that are exactly as totalitarian in their tendencies as you say. I only ask that you don’t assume that they are representative of all lefties or that some of what these people claim to care about is bad simply because they are terrible ambassadors of it. The left is at its best when rooted in solidarity, labor, and universalism, all things Seeger and the real left is about.

    • @runrig97
      @runrig97 Před rokem +1

      The 50s rightist McCarthyist morality was all about unfounded accusations of communist influenced treason and subversion. Who is it today that accuses who of being communists?

    • @leadzeppbelly
      @leadzeppbelly Před rokem +2

      Correction. 50’s rightist morality is today’s centrist morality. Socialists are not the same thing as liberals

  • @jackmacfarren5346
    @jackmacfarren5346 Před rokem

    Seeger was a manipulator

  • @rainfallenonmyshoes8471
    @rainfallenonmyshoes8471 Před rokem +4

    An amazing person. RIP Pete ..

    • @TheAyeAye1
      @TheAyeAye1 Před 11 měsíci

      He was pond scum. See my comment for evidence.

  • @dominicmogridge3920
    @dominicmogridge3920 Před 19 hodinami

    Non conformity,no consent.freeman on the land.maddog west cork.eire