Pete Seeger was a contemptible person. Maybe as an old man now at 89 he is reformed a little but I doubt he is truly any more reformed than Putin is from his KGB days. Hiding behind a cloak of caring for the poor and the "working man" he was a card carrying communist who visited Russia; but somehow forgot to visit the Gulags even though his more thoughtful friends told him that was the reality of Russia under the communists. In later years when faced with this he tried that sorry excuse that Russia was not really communist, same for China and well you get the picture, and yes I guess I should have visited the Gulags.

He was part of a power click who attempted to turn popular music into a political tool, under a rigid central control of ideology. The smarter people rejected him and the rest is history, but the old fool lives on and was in the news this morning. My reply follows:

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Pete Seeger seems content he has an apology from the San Diego school district, saying in reply "our right to freedom of expression has been vindicated". Hummm.....This is the same Pete Seeger who had to be physically restrained from destroying the sound equipment of Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival as Seeger tried to deny Dylan his freedom of expression. An action for which he never apologized and instead he claims never happened the way other people saw it, only admitting in print to saying "Damn it, if I had an axe, I'd cut the cable right now."

Perhaps some day he will apologize for that action.