Obama Lauds Communist, Pete Seeger

Obama Lauds Communist, Pete Seeger

 

Pete Seeger finally went to his eternal reward, or final punishment, on Tuesday at the ripe old age of 94 years, again proving the truism that only the good die young.  May he rest in the Communist hell he  very richly deserves.

Wait!  Pete who?

For the younguns out there, Seeger, born to a comfortable, activist, Calvinist yet musical family with roots stretching back as far as the American Revolution, was a popular folk singer in the fifties and sixties.

Inventor of the Long Neck or Seeger banjo, introducer of the Steel Pan to American music, co-founding star of the ”progressive” singing groups, the Almanac Singers and the Weavers, Seeger was also a professed Communist. 

A proud pacifist, Seeger argued against America’s entry into World War Two while the Nazis were allies of the Soviet Union and changed his mind after they weren’t.  A great admirer of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War who, following his visit during the height of that conflict, “came away ecstatic about the beautiful country and the peace-loving people there” according to historian Ron Radosh.

Most tellingly, the inventor of the Long Neck banjo opposed American military action against the Taliban after 9/11.  May Allah forbid that we seek retribution for the wanton Islamic murder of 2,996 defenseless human beings!

Just as he had changed his view on the merits of entering WWII when it looked like we wouldn’t be fighting the U.S.S.R., Seeger flipped on his Communist leanings but in a 2000 interview with Mother Jones admitted, “I’m still a Communist, in the sense that I don’t believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35419.)

Martin Luther King, Jr.--The Man, The Legend, The Fraud

Martin Luther King, Jr.--The Man, the Legend, the Fraud

 (With minor revisions, the following was originally posted in this space on January 15th, 2011 under the title, “Reflections on the Greatest Individual Who Ever Lived in America.")

It’s only a matter of time before politicians and sculptors figure out a way to squeeze in Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s visage somewhere between Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore or to chisel away one of those presidents and substitute Dr. King’s face in his stead. 

And, why not?  Dr. King is the greatest individual who has ever graced America’s history, right? 

After all, no other American has a national holiday solely dedicated in his name and he has more streets, avenues, highways, by-ways, cul-de-sacs, lanes, alleyways, and dead-ends named after him than any other personage who has ever lived in America. 

We were indeed blessed by his presence among us.

No one else has ever accomplished so much in so little time in America except, perhaps, Barack Hussein Obama, next in the PC line to have a day if not a month named in his honor with, perhaps, his face emblazoned on Mount Rushmore, Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, Mount Kenya, or all three.

King exemplified Winston Churchill’s accolade that, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few,” in the sense that Britain’s Royal Air Force was incomparable but King’s accomplishments were even more profound.  Never was so much attention paid and so little owed, except to blacks, in America. 

Nevertheless, Dr. King is honored annually with a prestigious holiday denied to every president in our history who are rewarded for their contributions to the nation by a generic “Presidents’ Day.”

MLK Day 2014 is indeed a time for great celebration and fondest remembrance, although certain facets of King’s life won’t be remembered or made public until 2027 since his wife, Coretta Scott King, persuaded a federal court in 1977 to seal 845 pages of his FBI record for 50 years “because its release would destroy his reputation.” 

For now, and for the next 13 years, one can only imagine the damaging content of that file . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35225.)