It is a very prophetic song indeed! Just listen to the lyrics, and look really look at what is happening all around you! Wars, and rumors of wars! Terrorism! Violence everywhere! The globalist wanting a two class system of the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer! Our rights being stripped away! And human rights in places like China, and Cuba where the government has no value of human rights!
Wars can be stopped If people put their mind to it-If more people offer their time to pray together they could stop Wars without little resistance-mind over matter-like the film-The Man Who Stare At Goats-We are all electric-magnetic like a generator-that we effect the rotation of the Earth with distorting Time & Space-the present & future-ever had static electricity touching chrome with a shock or static stockings?
Ever attracted bolt of lightening by standing under a tree in rainstorm
It would have been better if you used more art and put in more effort but usually I'm just on hear to listen to the music and not so much the videos...
the world is governed by war hungry trigger happy generals and leaders, greedy corporations and man's greed for more and more of fragile earth's resources.....this whole crazy world is just frustrating, how true that is!
@VestigiumVeritatis Me tooo sweetie! All we can do is ... Wait. For the hunger games? You MUST read the books. Its a trilogy. Im on 2 and one ....... Kinda like we all will be ...
@TheObamaNigger So, you love war. I can tell you haven't buried your best friend, brother, father, cousin, fiance. How sick is it to love something so very destructive. You go to Washington DC and stand before the memorials there, then go to Arlington Cematery and write something this stupid.
For all that want to enlist to protect this country, you better think twice about who you really are protecting. It might just be the corporate war machine that trades your blood for money.People are getting rich from these insane wars.
The original was by P.F. SLOAN... but actually done by the MAMAS AND PAPAS first... and BARRY McGUIRE put his vocal in over them....(he used their background music for the hit version
"Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin today..." Does anyone else here feel a deep, seated, intuitive fear that in many ways is worse than a fear of nuclear war that haunted our society for so many decades. It is even more frightening because 'the enemy is us." It is a growing insidious corporatistic consumerism that creeps through our society like dryrot, buying our politicians', numbing our own souls, and dulling us the cold, callousness becoming so pervasive.
@monkeytx1 Many people do seem to base their decisions about who to vote for on sound bites are commercials that bear no semblance to the truth but not everyone does this. There are thoughtful people who make their decision after researching the issues and candidates. I presuming you are referring to OWS but not all networks and journalists are demonizing them. Fox noise is, and the Republican party because they are afraid of them. Aside from them, they are getting pretty good press.
There are some very interesting and thoughtful comments here. I agree with many of them. The ones I have a problem with are those posted by so called patriots who think they have a monopoly on it and parade the flag around and yet stand back and cheer while the monied interests pillage the country. In a democracy, the people are the govt and for the righties, yes we are a democracy- and are trying to hold onto it against those tyrants you carry water for.
@colleen59701 I know right? People seem to believe anything they are told, so long as it is from the news, which I might add, are all demonizing everyone who believes in working towards a better world.
You know one of the great things about this country? Is that even those who leave such racist, hateful and disrespectful comments have a right to do so, their speech no matter how offensive to some is allowed. You don't have to worry that storm troopers are going to take you away in the middle of the night because you disagree with the President or any other faction of the government. Remember that when you bash this country and it's defenders.
look,even my generation remember The Arms Race and Nuclear fear-"When The Wind Blows" and "Threads" are just two examples of the VERY VIVID memry "I" have about Nuclear war,my words I address to Americans who's friends died in Iraq and the like.."Do you not understand how Jews used the Dollar to destroy poor countries-First Old Palestine-they did not then constitute an enemy ,the Egypt then Jordan then Poor Syria then the NIGHTMARE OF LEBANON"! Can't you see what seeds of evil The Dollar cause?
Funny how underschooled and undereducated some people are - hence the comment of "617AV86892". I'm happy for u man! The American army does a great job on ruinin' the world peace :-). Grab ur rifle and make it a nice sunday. Ur mindless comment makes me understand why this world sucks so much again. Ghehe!
@Kommommer go shop organic,you fucking hippie.Blaming America for the worlds blunder doesn't make you any better than the gun toting republicans that run this shit hole.While your playing holier than thou on a fucking video sharing site,real world crisis, genocide,and suffering is going on,and what are you and the other idiots bickering in the comments section doing to stop it?posting mundane comments and pointing fingers on a Barry McGuire song.
@xXZeRoOmEgAXx It is actually a myth that religion both now and in the past has been the cause of wars, mind you some of the time yes but if you actually study history for yourself it has been about power for wealth, land and other resources not solely religion. Like anything else there are those who use teachings of ALL faiths and warp them for their own agenda it doesn't mean that is what that believe system stands for.
Respond to this video... To ALL those soldiers past and present who are reading this, please know that most of your countrymen are behind you and love and respect you for your sacrifices. From a GRATEFUL AMERICAN
The western world is exploding. Violence flaring, bullets loading. It has become a reality. God Bless Scot Olsen. Iraq vet wounded defending our constitution in Oakland
What happened to the lost art of a protest song? I guess people are too glued to their cell phones nowadays to bother. People have become way too self absorbed to consider others misfortunes. Artists are too afraid to show any sign of a conscience in fear of losing potential earnings. Why else are people looking up 40 year old songs for an outlet to fustration to the silence?
@boredsmile You are right. Today its all about the money. When this song first appeared, it was banned from being played on the radio. It wasnt about money back then. It was more about right and wrong. Besides I dont think I want to hear a protest song written by todays artists.
We were just kids, havin a little fun. They busted us with four joints. I didn't see a real problem but Ritchie was scared. They told us our lives would be ruined, but they could help us out if we joined the army for a couple of years. We could even get some college out of the deal. I eventually paid most of a hundred dollar fine. Ritchie? He was killed six months later in an ambush.
@MHPSpokane Your sorry I hope it haunts you the rest of your life. Cowards like you have no place in society. Move to Europe Slacker. Your ambush will be eternal damnation . A man can only die once , a coward like you dies a thousand deaths a day .
@617AV86892 I would never wish my anguish on even someone as angry as you. Do you know which war I refer to? Do you know my gender? You seem to have created a scenario from your OWN life and transferrd it to a stranger.I have no problems with who I am but I bet you have a problem you were hoping to resolve by attacking me. Do you feel better now?
@617AV86892 Go away! You sound like one of the soldiers currently on trial for sport hunting Afghanistan civilians and then taking trophies to relive the kill. Very creepy -- listen to Barry Saddler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" or get your meds adjusted or something. You need some help, my friend. Today's military will take anyone, and that's the awful truth.
@LJBroussard Go Away and join the Wall Street protests with the rest of the freshman college rich kids, and the professional left hippies and the mentaly ill freak shows. Liberal American hating turds like you always scream and shout and act like tough guys like that P*ssy Alec Baldwin, or Bill Mahr, and michael Moore but whenthe fighting needs to be done they throw on thier Burkas and hide like the true cowards all libertards are. The Left, Climate Change , and all liberal causes are B*llsh*t !
Like Jesse the body Ventura said once, congress and the rest of the politticains fight in front of the camera for u , the viewers, but behind close doors , their friends again. its all fake, Jesse said,llike big time wrestling. but anyways thank u soldier for eveythng you've done for our cuontry and god bless.
Flameboy.. I lived through those times and yes this was the true feeling of Vetinam.. Trying to impress another way of life.. Sad yes.. Killing was not there way, but of course some did.. I seen a lot back then but the true feeling way love.. Why can't we just love..
Sad to say But I was a kid when this song came out. I remember drills in case of nuclear attack, as if hiding under a desk would do any good. This song is as relavent today as it was when it was written, maybe more so. in fifty years we learned nothing, just changed the face of the enemy
@my3sons1958 One thing rather glaring about the difference between now and the Nam war is that there is media praise for those "serving" (i.e. fighting for Israel's interests), with the masses clapping and cheering for them in airports and such. Vets were demonized during those days----the VietNam conflict gave no benefit to our masters, the Jewish State.
@my3sons1958 My thoughts exactly! My wife and I heard this tune this afternoon on the radio..I turned to her and said.."This song applies to the world today"....we learned nothing in 50 years!! I was 13 when this song was released...I'm 60 years old, I'm still on the radio everyday..and this song is exactly what is going on today..as you say..even more so today...scary, eh??
@my3sons1958 I got a real eye-opener for ya. We are our own enemies. How bout that!? Yes, mankind, as a whole, is his own worst enemy. thats my final answer
@my3sons1958 I remember getting under my desk during the Civil Defense air raid drills too. Then I remember that WE are the only ones who actually dropped Abombs on people.
@my3sons1958 Learned "nothing?" In the mean time discovered the "Greatest Generation," and now want to dog them again like in '68 and 69? Evil is always here, Chief and some Americans pay the CONTINUING price of FREEDOM. The real question is if you're a Worker or a Slacker.
You don't know what freedom is, dumbass. Right now 99% of all the American assets are held by 1% of it's inhabitants. That one percent are corporate paymasters who work as a strain of economical parasites. Your existence from cradle to grave is monitored, exploited and undermined entirely for the sake of their interests. Whether you slave away for some corporation for all your life: Or die in a ditch in Pakistan. You don't do it for anyone's sake but theirs.
@TheFacelessActivist "Dumbass?" I can NOT care less for what other folks have! Their assets? They're NOT mine! And they will one day rot into dust! Just as you and I will one day be compost or a biofuel. It's a shame you're going to waste your life wanting what other people have, and pouting over missed opportunities, whining about cups half-full and worrying about whole forrests while ignoring the tree.
@TheFacelessActivist Frustration and anger and remorse and regret are your companions while dogs and cats and gardens and old chevy pickups and working-with-my-hand skills, being able build or repair ANYTHING I can see are mine. I build things that will outlive me but they too will go to dust like myself. My life is gravy and productive and full of unconditional love, yours is hatred and anger and apparently living and making decisions based on these unreliable emotions.
You forgot the part about you being an arrogant ass who thinks he knows everything about someone after reading a paragraph about them. See, there's people out there who are dying, starving and live pretty miserable lives because of those rich assholes that you're so eagerly defending. I'm not cool with that since I actually pulled the head out of my ass and looked at the world around me. So go on and selfishly stew in your remedial lifestyle, but don't comment on mine.
You're so ignorant, man... The Department of Homeland Security makes it very clear that a nuclear bomb incinerates a fifty mile radius completely within approximately two seconds... With the exception of people who pay their taxes, salute their flag or hide under their desks!
Please someone post "I'm Just An Orphan Of World War Two," which was aired during this time on the TV Show "The Smothers Brothers." Thank you, comrades.
Don't you understand what I am trying to say, can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today, If the climate changes there's no running away, there will be no one to save with the world in a watery grave, take a look around you boy, its bound to scare you boy.
For anyone who really cares about peace, come out to the october 2011 rally in dc. it is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the afghanistan war.
Im not a fan of protesting, and preaching and all that, but I have always loved this song. I remember when I was a kid when my mom played this 45, I always stopped what I was doing and ran into her room to listen to it. Maybe, because Barry Mcguire wasn't a natural singer, which made it sound like a"regular" guy was singing?
Barry's son, brennan, is coming to visit us after he comes and stays with the epiphany trust. i met him like 3 years ago at the lowton Methodist church, and he gave me inspiration to become a musician, and a studded band. im wearing it now.
@UserNamei5 you'll probably never get rid of war, your right, but does that make ot alright for one so called race to feel superior over another and make people use the back door or sit at the back of the bus or many other things that are much worse and call it democracy.
@UserNamei5 Cynical people are the ones who hold hope back, I’m not saying it will be now, eventually we will be a better society, might be a hundred years, might be a thousand, we cant maintain our current capitalist society forever, its inherently floored, ultimately destructive to both us and our planet, just like all other social and governmental systems, but, eventually, we will get it right, but it wont be in our life time.
i am 14. i love this song, but it pains me to scroll down and here people bicker like a bunch of rabid dogs. did the violence of teh 60s, the gulags, the riots, the extremists teach you nothing?!?!?!?!
@FLAMEboy677 Good to see that there is some people from the younger generations that see where we have been goin' wrong in the past. Self knowledge is the first step to happiness and this is a top tune!!!
@FLAMEboy677 how about the violence of nowadays? this song could be written today. people seem to be ignorant and waaay to selfabsorbed to notice the shit going on today. don't you believe we are on the eve of destuction? have a nice life, I truly hope it will be free of war and the misery coming with it...
@FLAMEboy677 Agree with you, without even reading the comments. Please know, from someone who lived through those times, that there are many of us who did learn. Still working for peace and looking for answers. Don't give up.
@FLAMEboy677 I was 14 when I first heard this song, back in 1965 when it was first released. Still love it after all these years but oh! how it makes me realise how little we've learnt since then. I'm ashamed of how we of the "protest generation" seem to have sung a lot but done almost nothing about the dangers. I can't see that the world is any better for today's 14-yr-olds, and I just hope that one day, people living in a safer world will play this song and wonder what all the fuss was about.
@FLAMEboy677 sadly my dear for too many it did not. Your simple and profound statement gives me hope for your generation; if only the ones before it could get a clue.
@FLAMEboy677 No shit right? Its unfortunate. Humanity, no matter how many nice people are born the truth is. Even you could pick up a weapon and end a life. Once humanity is incapable of killing one another is the time we will stop killing. Unfortunately... thats not going to happen. We can always pray and hope for world peace but... if it comes? It won't be in our life time.
In the case of Vietnam or any other war that any of us may or may not agree with, it wasn't or ever should be about 'the war', it's about the WARRIOR. We may not have been successful there but that doesn't change the sacrifice of those who fought there. Instead of being welcomed by their countrymen they were spit on and called names like baby killer. They already had scars but mental and physical as due the current vets, they needed our love and acceptance not scorn.
Those who protested the war had ever right as American citizens to question their government and use the system to have their voice heard;this is a right of the people. Those who used 'protest' for another kind of agenda of destruction such as blowing up buildings or using violence to further their cause were being hypocritics;doing exactly what they claimed to be against. Disagreeing with the government is fine, defaming those who fight is another. There is NO excuse for that.
@Mdude667 I can't even describe just how disgusting it is for any to do such a cruel thing. I know someone who is in the Patriot Guard Riders. Have you ever heard of them? When invited they come to a funeral and form a line all holding the flag and preventing these idiots from getting anywhere near the family or the service. They are civilians who are mostly vets themselves. May you and the family feel GOD's peace in this time of suffering and sadness. GOD BLESS OUR SOLDIERS PAST AND PRESENT.
@JerFish12 Yes, that is one of the groups and the one that unfortunately has received so much publicity. They are actually basically made up of one family with the head being Fred Phelps. The Patriot Guard Riders started because of jackasses like them. They didn't follow through with it but they even said they wanted to protest the funerals of the Amish children that were murdered in the one room school house shooting.
@abffchick17 those WBC guys are the EXACT opposite of christian. thats so messed up they need to read the part of the bible that talks about forgiveness and loving everyone.
@JerFish12 I know it pains me that he even dares call his following a 'church', he is anything but Christian and gives the rest of us a bad name because unfortunately there are those who mistakenly believe that is what Christianity is about. Jesus preached tolerance, acceptance and love thy neighbor.
@dragonfitter No, what I said is that some who during the Vietnam era who claimed that peace was the only way then took to bombing government building and colleges. They were hypocrites; taking the law into their own hands and not using the political and judicial process. What Mandella dealt with is completely different. The protest movement was just when it focused on questioning the governments actions not degrading the soldiers who fought. There is never an excuse that.
@abffchick17 I agree with you to some extent. But blowing up empty ROTC buildings is a far cry from, say, Al Queda killing thousands of innocent people, to push their cause. The 60's protesters tried to be peaceful. Murdering people was not their way. It was the Gov't pigs that turned peaceful protests into violence, (as in Kent State, for example). If the semi-violent protests back then hadn't happened, we might still be fighting in Vietnam.
@abffchick17 Have you ever heard of the term "Preservation of life"? I agree with you completely of course. There should never be violence in a peaceful protest... But if the only way I am to be heard and taken seriously is when I kill someone who's the cause of my protest to begin with then so be it. Take the Few for the Meany.
@panda1345 That is the excuse that those who murder docs. that perform abortions use, I am not saying that is how you meant it. In the Nam era the majority of that movement were peaceful and they got different officials elected who supported them and even got laws passed (the civil rights movement), they changed the country where the ones who committed violence didn't.
@abffchick17 The true ones were never violent in any way, they ran campaigns to elect people who believed in their cause and fought to change policy by having sit ins and protests. In some cases those empty buildings actually had people in them and they were killed.That was the fringe sect. It wasn't the violent ones who got us out of there it was the ones who used them system and changed the system by shouting until people listened the same goes for the Civil Rights Movement, like Dr. King.
Respond to this video... The government itself made grave errors in judgement as well, incidents like Kent State should never have happened. Just as the majority of those who practice the faith of Islam live in peaceful coexistence, the majority of protesters were non violent. It is the radicals that create hardship for every legitimate cause. Martin Luther King Jr. preached and used non violence and he's one of the major heroes of the Civil Rights Movement.
@abffchick17 Yes of course. People who kill others in a peaceful protest are complete jack asses. But people like a few of these terrorist groups like the Rebels in Libya? they are fighting for freedom. For what they want in life. Think of it as a strike only... blood is spilled.
@VestigiumVeritatis Fascist?
ChrisYonts 2 days ago
Very accurate and timeless song! In the timeline of mankind no one knows how long the "eve" will last.
bleep691999 1 week ago
I think my grandad said it best. Never start a fight, never be afraid to walk away, but never run from one.
driver3464 1 week ago
It is a very prophetic song indeed! Just listen to the lyrics, and look really look at what is happening all around you! Wars, and rumors of wars! Terrorism! Violence everywhere! The globalist wanting a two class system of the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer! Our rights being stripped away! And human rights in places like China, and Cuba where the government has no value of human rights!
Marty43936 2 weeks ago
the 10 people who disliked this can burn in hell. That is all :)
kholehinrichs 3 weeks ago
@kholehinrichs you guys are starting to piss me off....
detroitrockrr 1 week ago
stupid spell check by Yahoo......Iraq and Iran
gdwarch 3 weeks ago
If i was rich enough, im going to buy an island and create my own nation and leave all this bullshit behind.
XSoulStormX 3 weeks ago
Hard to believe this was from 1965 or so
cscdigitalgraphics 3 weeks ago
This world hasnt changed .
jeancorban 3 weeks ago
Excellent song! I like the picture too! :)
MrCarl220 1 month ago
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Wars can be stopped If people put their mind to it-If more people offer their time to pray together they could stop Wars without little resistance-mind over matter-like the film-The Man Who Stare At Goats-We are all electric-magnetic like a generator-that we effect the rotation of the Earth with distorting Time & Space-the present & future-ever had static electricity touching chrome with a shock or static stockings?
Ever attracted bolt of lightening by standing under a tree in rainstorm
dardingz 1 month ago
RON PAUL 2012!!!
417KathAmanti 1 month ago
It would have been better if you used more art and put in more effort but usually I'm just on hear to listen to the music and not so much the videos...
colergenni 1 month ago
Vietnam, Irag, Afganistan; and soon Iraq.....what the hell is the difference? "hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say Grace".
gdwarch 1 month ago 2
@gdwarch Irag?
wessnyder117 3 weeks ago
the world is governed by war hungry trigger happy generals and leaders, greedy corporations and man's greed for more and more of fragile earth's resources.....this whole crazy world is just frustrating, how true that is!
clouds882 1 month ago 2
did you see my crotch?
XARMYXxx 1 month ago
Sadly a song that has still not outlived being very relevant. We didn't pay attention then and we don't now.
misstexaskitty 1 month ago 5
@VestigiumVeritatis Me tooo sweetie! All we can do is ... Wait. For the hunger games? You MUST read the books. Its a trilogy. Im on 2 and one ....... Kinda like we all will be ...
inatizzy2 1 month ago
Or lack there of.
CocoaChaos13 2 months ago
This was the #1 song on the day that I was born...........Explains a lot about my personality.
CocoaChaos13 2 months ago 2
Hmmmm. apropos for 2102?
karlmoles65 2 months ago
I feel like like is a mischief brew cover just waiting to happen.
666popeman666 2 months ago
Why is YouTube running sooooooo slow?
pundakay 2 months ago in playlist mixed stuff 3
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pundakay 2 months ago in playlist mixed stuff
who diskiked this vidio?
XRAY670 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@XRAY670 Bush
aidan752 2 months ago 2
awsome
XRAY670 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
God forbid anyone says they hate war. Its like you're a communist if you don't want people to die and suffer...soooorrrreeee.
FanOfPopCulture 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
to have peace be prepared for war
TheMowmow1 2 months ago
@TheObamaNigger So, you love war. I can tell you haven't buried your best friend, brother, father, cousin, fiance. How sick is it to love something so very destructive. You go to Washington DC and stand before the memorials there, then go to Arlington Cematery and write something this stupid.
reddkl 2 months ago
@reddkl problem with you is you never stand for anything so you get run over.
godfugitive 2 months ago
@godfugitive I stand for more in one pinky than you do in your entire body
reddkl 2 months ago
STOP OBAMA NOW!
Halftrac 3 months ago
This song holds as much relevance today as it did in '65.
francis7841 3 months ago 20
Mankind never learns from history. This song is a prophecy about what will be if things don't change.
MissRubberBunny 3 months ago 2
spent 6 years in the navy and learned one thing, Uncle Sam doesn't tell us what "we need to know". Sad but true brother....
Murfinias 3 months ago
For all that want to enlist to protect this country, you better think twice about who you really are protecting. It might just be the corporate war machine that trades your blood for money.People are getting rich from these insane wars.
goodthing52 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos 3
The original was by P.F. SLOAN... but actually done by the MAMAS AND PAPAS first... and BARRY McGUIRE put his vocal in over them....(he used their background music for the hit version
7734Duke 3 months ago
"Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin today..." Does anyone else here feel a deep, seated, intuitive fear that in many ways is worse than a fear of nuclear war that haunted our society for so many decades. It is even more frightening because 'the enemy is us." It is a growing insidious corporatistic consumerism that creeps through our society like dryrot, buying our politicians', numbing our own souls, and dulling us the cold, callousness becoming so pervasive.
jeff62rey 3 months ago
@monkeytx1 Many people do seem to base their decisions about who to vote for on sound bites are commercials that bear no semblance to the truth but not everyone does this. There are thoughtful people who make their decision after researching the issues and candidates. I presuming you are referring to OWS but not all networks and journalists are demonizing them. Fox noise is, and the Republican party because they are afraid of them. Aside from them, they are getting pretty good press.
colleen59701 3 months ago
There are some very interesting and thoughtful comments here. I agree with many of them. The ones I have a problem with are those posted by so called patriots who think they have a monopoly on it and parade the flag around and yet stand back and cheer while the monied interests pillage the country. In a democracy, the people are the govt and for the righties, yes we are a democracy- and are trying to hold onto it against those tyrants you carry water for.
colleen59701 4 months ago
@colleen59701 I know right? People seem to believe anything they are told, so long as it is from the news, which I might add, are all demonizing everyone who believes in working towards a better world.
monkeylx1 3 months ago
neither is letting tyrants run over ebverything you love....fucking peacnick assholes.
judeyorke 4 months ago
@judeyorke Another war junkie.
goodthing52 4 months ago in playlist goodthing52's favorites
@goodthing52
who has given you a voice.
judeyorke 4 months ago
You know one of the great things about this country? Is that even those who leave such racist, hateful and disrespectful comments have a right to do so, their speech no matter how offensive to some is allowed. You don't have to worry that storm troopers are going to take you away in the middle of the night because you disagree with the President or any other faction of the government. Remember that when you bash this country and it's defenders.
abffchick17 4 months ago in playlist Protest Rock
look,even my generation remember The Arms Race and Nuclear fear-"When The Wind Blows" and "Threads" are just two examples of the VERY VIVID memry "I" have about Nuclear war,my words I address to Americans who's friends died in Iraq and the like.."Do you not understand how Jews used the Dollar to destroy poor countries-First Old Palestine-they did not then constitute an enemy ,the Egypt then Jordan then Poor Syria then the NIGHTMARE OF LEBANON"! Can't you see what seeds of evil The Dollar cause?
Alxalifate 4 months ago
Funny how underschooled and undereducated some people are - hence the comment of "617AV86892". I'm happy for u man! The American army does a great job on ruinin' the world peace :-). Grab ur rifle and make it a nice sunday. Ur mindless comment makes me understand why this world sucks so much again. Ghehe!
Kommommer 4 months ago
@Kommommer go shop organic,you fucking hippie.Blaming America for the worlds blunder doesn't make you any better than the gun toting republicans that run this shit hole.While your playing holier than thou on a fucking video sharing site,real world crisis, genocide,and suffering is going on,and what are you and the other idiots bickering in the comments section doing to stop it?posting mundane comments and pointing fingers on a Barry McGuire song.
xXZeRoOmEgAXx 4 months ago
We all know religion is to blame for every single problem we have today.
xXZeRoOmEgAXx 4 months ago
@xXZeRoOmEgAXx It is actually a myth that religion both now and in the past has been the cause of wars, mind you some of the time yes but if you actually study history for yourself it has been about power for wealth, land and other resources not solely religion. Like anything else there are those who use teachings of ALL faiths and warp them for their own agenda it doesn't mean that is what that believe system stands for.
abffchick17 4 months ago in playlist Protest Rock
Respond to this video... To ALL those soldiers past and present who are reading this, please know that most of your countrymen are behind you and love and respect you for your sacrifices. From a GRATEFUL AMERICAN
abffchick17 4 months ago in playlist Protest Rock
The western world is exploding. Violence flaring, bullets loading. It has become a reality. God Bless Scot Olsen. Iraq vet wounded defending our constitution in Oakland
goodthing52 4 months ago in playlist goodthing52's favorites 2
7 sadic soldiers dislike this song...
elterroyelnegro 4 months ago
this song is freaking excellent always has always will be thanks for posting this
ponkaton1 4 months ago 3
What happened to the lost art of a protest song? I guess people are too glued to their cell phones nowadays to bother. People have become way too self absorbed to consider others misfortunes. Artists are too afraid to show any sign of a conscience in fear of losing potential earnings. Why else are people looking up 40 year old songs for an outlet to fustration to the silence?
boredsmile 4 months ago
@boredsmile You are right. Today its all about the money. When this song first appeared, it was banned from being played on the radio. It wasnt about money back then. It was more about right and wrong. Besides I dont think I want to hear a protest song written by todays artists.
goodthing52 4 months ago in playlist goodthing52's favorites
7 people are morons!!
MrOribear 4 months ago
Just because you're a "Man of Service" it doesn't mean you're a fucking saint. NO LIES JUST LOVE.
AudreyAubergine 4 months ago
We were just kids, havin a little fun. They busted us with four joints. I didn't see a real problem but Ritchie was scared. They told us our lives would be ruined, but they could help us out if we joined the army for a couple of years. We could even get some college out of the deal. I eventually paid most of a hundred dollar fine. Ritchie? He was killed six months later in an ambush.
MHPSpokane 5 months ago 42
@MHPSpokane Wow. What a story. My thoughts go out to your friend Ritchie. RIP.
domswhg01 4 months ago
@MHPSpokane Your sorry I hope it haunts you the rest of your life. Cowards like you have no place in society. Move to Europe Slacker. Your ambush will be eternal damnation . A man can only die once , a coward like you dies a thousand deaths a day .
617AV86892 4 months ago
@617AV86892 I would never wish my anguish on even someone as angry as you. Do you know which war I refer to? Do you know my gender? You seem to have created a scenario from your OWN life and transferrd it to a stranger.I have no problems with who I am but I bet you have a problem you were hoping to resolve by attacking me. Do you feel better now?
MHPSpokane 4 months ago
@MHPSpokane :)
abffchick17 4 months ago
@617AV86892 Go away! You sound like one of the soldiers currently on trial for sport hunting Afghanistan civilians and then taking trophies to relive the kill. Very creepy -- listen to Barry Saddler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" or get your meds adjusted or something. You need some help, my friend. Today's military will take anyone, and that's the awful truth.
LJBroussard 4 months ago
@LJBroussard Go Away and join the Wall Street protests with the rest of the freshman college rich kids, and the professional left hippies and the mentaly ill freak shows. Liberal American hating turds like you always scream and shout and act like tough guys like that P*ssy Alec Baldwin, or Bill Mahr, and michael Moore but whenthe fighting needs to be done they throw on thier Burkas and hide like the true cowards all libertards are. The Left, Climate Change , and all liberal causes are B*llsh*t !
617AV86892 4 months ago
@MHPSpokane A life gone,,, for what ? The System .
natobaden 4 months ago
@MHPSpokane Fuck you asshole. Real men signed up, you hippie fag.
godfugitive 2 months ago
@godfugitive
They also died, that's what we call "Natural Selection".
TheFacelessActivist 2 months ago
I'm just curious, this version sounds much rougher than what I am used to hearing (the mainstream version).
This is interesting.
mrwibbles1 5 months ago
Like Jesse the body Ventura said once, congress and the rest of the politticains fight in front of the camera for u , the viewers, but behind close doors , their friends again. its all fake, Jesse said,llike big time wrestling. but anyways thank u soldier for eveythng you've done for our cuontry and god bless.
hunkydude322 5 months ago
Say what the song is all about.... Vietman ....I am proud to have served.
foneBro 5 months ago
@foneBro Thank You for your service and sacrifice!
abffchick17 5 months ago
try Eve 2012.
it's current, and it's amazing...
suziQ27 5 months ago
Flameboy.. I lived through those times and yes this was the true feeling of Vetinam.. Trying to impress another way of life.. Sad yes.. Killing was not there way, but of course some did.. I seen a lot back then but the true feeling way love.. Why can't we just love..
Breakawayguyinzen 5 months ago
Sad to say But I was a kid when this song came out. I remember drills in case of nuclear attack, as if hiding under a desk would do any good. This song is as relavent today as it was when it was written, maybe more so. in fifty years we learned nothing, just changed the face of the enemy
my3sons1958 5 months ago 24
@my3sons1958 One thing rather glaring about the difference between now and the Nam war is that there is media praise for those "serving" (i.e. fighting for Israel's interests), with the masses clapping and cheering for them in airports and such. Vets were demonized during those days----the VietNam conflict gave no benefit to our masters, the Jewish State.
UnseenCaller 4 months ago
@my3sons1958 My thoughts exactly! My wife and I heard this tune this afternoon on the radio..I turned to her and said.."This song applies to the world today"....we learned nothing in 50 years!! I was 13 when this song was released...I'm 60 years old, I'm still on the radio everyday..and this song is exactly what is going on today..as you say..even more so today...scary, eh??
sunray65 4 months ago
@my3sons1958 I got a real eye-opener for ya. We are our own enemies. How bout that!? Yes, mankind, as a whole, is his own worst enemy. thats my final answer
MsLeen101 3 months ago
@MsLeen101 ...no shit. Now multiply that by the people who want to kill ya....just sayin....mdawg
mdawg1238 3 months ago
@my3sons1958 Sad but true...
Greyghost1961 3 months ago
@my3sons1958 I remember getting under my desk during the Civil Defense air raid drills too. Then I remember that WE are the only ones who actually dropped Abombs on people.
goodthing52 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
@my3sons1958 Learned "nothing?" In the mean time discovered the "Greatest Generation," and now want to dog them again like in '68 and 69? Evil is always here, Chief and some Americans pay the CONTINUING price of FREEDOM. The real question is if you're a Worker or a Slacker.
ReevesPete 2 months ago
@ReevesPete
You don't know what freedom is, dumbass. Right now 99% of all the American assets are held by 1% of it's inhabitants. That one percent are corporate paymasters who work as a strain of economical parasites. Your existence from cradle to grave is monitored, exploited and undermined entirely for the sake of their interests. Whether you slave away for some corporation for all your life: Or die in a ditch in Pakistan. You don't do it for anyone's sake but theirs.
TheFacelessActivist 2 months ago
@TheFacelessActivist "Dumbass?" I can NOT care less for what other folks have! Their assets? They're NOT mine! And they will one day rot into dust! Just as you and I will one day be compost or a biofuel. It's a shame you're going to waste your life wanting what other people have, and pouting over missed opportunities, whining about cups half-full and worrying about whole forrests while ignoring the tree.
ReevesPete 2 months ago
@ReevesPete
Yeah, aspirations are terrible... Otherwise we'd all be happy starving to death in a puddle of our own piss. Whoop-tie-fucking-doo...
TheFacelessActivist 2 months ago
@TheFacelessActivist Frustration and anger and remorse and regret are your companions while dogs and cats and gardens and old chevy pickups and working-with-my-hand skills, being able build or repair ANYTHING I can see are mine. I build things that will outlive me but they too will go to dust like myself. My life is gravy and productive and full of unconditional love, yours is hatred and anger and apparently living and making decisions based on these unreliable emotions.
ReevesPete 2 months ago
@ReevesPete
You forgot the part about you being an arrogant ass who thinks he knows everything about someone after reading a paragraph about them. See, there's people out there who are dying, starving and live pretty miserable lives because of those rich assholes that you're so eagerly defending. I'm not cool with that since I actually pulled the head out of my ass and looked at the world around me. So go on and selfishly stew in your remedial lifestyle, but don't comment on mine.
TheFacelessActivist 2 months ago
@my3sons1958
You're so ignorant, man... The Department of Homeland Security makes it very clear that a nuclear bomb incinerates a fifty mile radius completely within approximately two seconds... With the exception of people who pay their taxes, salute their flag or hide under their desks!
TheFacelessActivist 2 months ago
todays .
fabricsman1 5 months ago
Libya? The shit is right at your back door.
goodthing52 5 months ago in playlist goodthing52's Favorited Videos
Please someone post "I'm Just An Orphan Of World War Two," which was aired during this time on the TV Show "The Smothers Brothers." Thank you, comrades.
Boelcke1919 5 months ago
Sadly this is timeless. :-(
army2k08 5 months ago
EBRO'S MUSIC TRIVIA: The Eve of destructino was a 1965 hit # 4 alogn with Supreme' BACK IN MY ARAS AGAIN and Wayne Fonatna's THE GAME OF LOVE
videokeking2009 5 months ago
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Great song. The same as then goes for now too.
MsShirleyD 5 months ago
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Great song. The same as then goes for now too.
MsShirleyD 5 months ago
Great song. The same as then goes for now too.
MsShirleyD 5 months ago
they could push the button at any time ...and theres nothing we can do
2braindamage 6 months ago
whoever disliked this song obviously doesnt have any hearing!
neilackland84 6 months ago
do you ever notice that primerminsters never send their sons or daughters to war
bi184 6 months ago
If we had a draft today, we'd see a lot more protesting.
dblari 6 months ago
I was a fly on the wall in the 60's..just watchin,learnin and listenin,this was one of many lesson's..........
calyman453 6 months ago
it was posted when i turned 13
12martin12rojas 6 months ago
This song makes me want to run through a wall!!
ctriamimgons 6 months ago
Anti-war ... why didn't I think of that?
lizzabug007 6 months ago
Don't you understand what I am trying to say, can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today, If the climate changes there's no running away, there will be no one to save with the world in a watery grave, take a look around you boy, its bound to scare you boy.
OccupationG 6 months ago
Timeless classic... I've heard this song countless times, and it never fails to bring a chill to my spine, and remind me there's work to be done.
screwyootube1 6 months ago 2
For anyone who really cares about peace, come out to the october 2011 rally in dc. it is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the afghanistan war.
ronda21645 6 months ago
@ronda21645
what date???
sneeze76 6 months ago
Nothing has changed will it ever?
TheMinutman 6 months ago
I dont care about the message, this song is great!
ThrowMeAbLad3 6 months ago
thanks for the post strange I bought that WAR is not healthy art in Topanga in the 60's for my parents
dont know if it ever did a thing.......... guess not.. look around........
sz3rd 7 months ago
If you sit down and listen to this song......It is so sad...And very true...Just sayin'
TheRedman91 7 months ago 4
@TheRedman91
Looks like he had a good view on the future!
Turbulenzz 6 months ago
Im not a fan of protesting, and preaching and all that, but I have always loved this song. I remember when I was a kid when my mom played this 45, I always stopped what I was doing and ran into her room to listen to it. Maybe, because Barry Mcguire wasn't a natural singer, which made it sound like a"regular" guy was singing?
FanOfPopCulture 7 months ago 2
This song is even more revelant now than when it was released years ago,liked it then,like it now.Timless
cockshutt570 7 months ago 2
Well it's time to visit gun shop
JULIANZ47647 7 months ago 2
Barry's son, brennan, is coming to visit us after he comes and stays with the epiphany trust. i met him like 3 years ago at the lowton Methodist church, and he gave me inspiration to become a musician, and a studded band. im wearing it now.
LonelyAnarchist 7 months ago
This song is as true now as it has been for many years.
glasslady424 7 months ago
Youtube the group 77s song "The Lust, the Flesh, and the Pride of Life" - they gleefully admit they copped the beginning of this song.
BadSneakers 7 months ago
@UserNamei5 you'll probably never get rid of war, your right, but does that make ot alright for one so called race to feel superior over another and make people use the back door or sit at the back of the bus or many other things that are much worse and call it democracy.
fireandashstudio 8 months ago
4 people have already been destroyed.
albatross7677 8 months ago
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I hate Youtube comments.
SirDefaultPlayer 8 months ago
@UserNamei5 With Troglydites like you around, your comment stands true.
Rush6477 8 months ago
rings true today don't it boy's n girls
25FIREBALL 8 months ago
@UserNamei5 Cynical people are the ones who hold hope back, I’m not saying it will be now, eventually we will be a better society, might be a hundred years, might be a thousand, we cant maintain our current capitalist society forever, its inherently floored, ultimately destructive to both us and our planet, just like all other social and governmental systems, but, eventually, we will get it right, but it wont be in our life time.
stainonsociety3451 8 months ago
@UserNamei5 Nothin wrong with a little hope bro.
stainonsociety3451 8 months ago
3 of my cousins served in Nam. Thank God they got home alive. Many did not
snowbeard54 8 months ago
Keep in mind kiddies FREEDOM isn't free you have no clue till its taken from you!
And free LOVE back then the price was an STD often call the CLAP!!
I lived thru it and what will they say about these times we're living in 10or20 years from now???
leerider52 8 months ago
@leerider52 let me guess r u a homophobe?
MrStopthestereotypes 8 months ago
never a better reason to stay away from drugs. ..mcguire is a sick SOB. ..
HMFRiverdale 8 months ago
One of the greatest protest songs of all time. still has resonance today 45 years later.
littlebigbrain 8 months ago
i am 14. i love this song, but it pains me to scroll down and here people bicker like a bunch of rabid dogs. did the violence of teh 60s, the gulags, the riots, the extremists teach you nothing?!?!?!?!
FLAMEboy677 8 months ago 102
@FLAMEboy677 Obviously it did not. You sound very sain for a 14 year old. I do wish you a happy and long life. :-)
littlebigbrain 8 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 Age could be one of many criteria. You have the right spirit and let's hope you keep it.
Peace!
kaatje2111 8 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 Good to see that there is some people from the younger generations that see where we have been goin' wrong in the past. Self knowledge is the first step to happiness and this is a top tune!!!
rosenthal81 8 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 how about the violence of nowadays? this song could be written today. people seem to be ignorant and waaay to selfabsorbed to notice the shit going on today. don't you believe we are on the eve of destuction? have a nice life, I truly hope it will be free of war and the misery coming with it...
Tryclyde 8 months ago 3
@FLAMEboy677 Agree with you, without even reading the comments. Please know, from someone who lived through those times, that there are many of us who did learn. Still working for peace and looking for answers. Don't give up.
mckathiki 7 months ago 3
@FLAMEboy677 Some don't learn from history, bro. :\
JayGOS117 7 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 I was 14 when I first heard this song, back in 1965 when it was first released. Still love it after all these years but oh! how it makes me realise how little we've learnt since then. I'm ashamed of how we of the "protest generation" seem to have sung a lot but done almost nothing about the dangers. I can't see that the world is any better for today's 14-yr-olds, and I just hope that one day, people living in a safer world will play this song and wonder what all the fuss was about.
TrevsMum 6 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 well said young man
loyalwull 6 months ago
@FLAMEboy677...Good on ya! Your 14 & you write more sense than some adults twice your age!
TheBostonsurfboard 6 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 sadly my dear for too many it did not. Your simple and profound statement gives me hope for your generation; if only the ones before it could get a clue.
abffchick17 6 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 Shut up. No one cares how old you are, little kid. Stop trying to sound philosophical.
xXSgtWolfXx 6 months ago
@FLAMEboy677 Why does your profile say you are 49 yrs old . Dont preach to me , you fraud. .You are an idiot.
goodthing52 6 months ago in playlist goodthing52's Favorited Videos
@FLAMEboy677 No shit right? Its unfortunate. Humanity, no matter how many nice people are born the truth is. Even you could pick up a weapon and end a life. Once humanity is incapable of killing one another is the time we will stop killing. Unfortunately... thats not going to happen. We can always pray and hope for world peace but... if it comes? It won't be in our life time.
panda1345 5 months ago in playlist panda1345's Favorited Videos
too many faggots infested with Aids spreading their diseases, mothers aborting their babies, the wicket supreme court says it all okay.
thincow12 8 months ago
"Hey, everybody! Let's go kill! THAT'S true patriotism! Fite fer Amurika!!!!!!!!!!"
~The right wing~
peacefreak9 8 months ago
stop talking and listen to the music, peace out !
kobedeprins 8 months ago
In the case of Vietnam or any other war that any of us may or may not agree with, it wasn't or ever should be about 'the war', it's about the WARRIOR. We may not have been successful there but that doesn't change the sacrifice of those who fought there. Instead of being welcomed by their countrymen they were spit on and called names like baby killer. They already had scars but mental and physical as due the current vets, they needed our love and acceptance not scorn.
abffchick17 9 months ago
Those who protested the war had ever right as American citizens to question their government and use the system to have their voice heard;this is a right of the people. Those who used 'protest' for another kind of agenda of destruction such as blowing up buildings or using violence to further their cause were being hypocritics;doing exactly what they claimed to be against. Disagreeing with the government is fine, defaming those who fight is another. There is NO excuse for that.
abffchick17 9 months ago 35
@abffchick17 Wow I wish you were there when people protested at my buddies funeral.
Mdude667 7 months ago
@Mdude667 I can't even describe just how disgusting it is for any to do such a cruel thing. I know someone who is in the Patriot Guard Riders. Have you ever heard of them? When invited they come to a funeral and form a line all holding the flag and preventing these idiots from getting anywhere near the family or the service. They are civilians who are mostly vets themselves. May you and the family feel GOD's peace in this time of suffering and sadness. GOD BLESS OUR SOLDIERS PAST AND PRESENT.
abffchick17 7 months ago 6
@abffchick17 Are you talkin about the west baptist church?
JerFish12 4 months ago
@JerFish12 Yes, that is one of the groups and the one that unfortunately has received so much publicity. They are actually basically made up of one family with the head being Fred Phelps. The Patriot Guard Riders started because of jackasses like them. They didn't follow through with it but they even said they wanted to protest the funerals of the Amish children that were murdered in the one room school house shooting.
abffchick17 4 months ago
@abffchick17 those WBC guys are the EXACT opposite of christian. thats so messed up they need to read the part of the bible that talks about forgiveness and loving everyone.
JerFish12 4 months ago
@JerFish12 I know it pains me that he even dares call his following a 'church', he is anything but Christian and gives the rest of us a bad name because unfortunately there are those who mistakenly believe that is what Christianity is about. Jesus preached tolerance, acceptance and love thy neighbor.
abffchick17 4 months ago
@abffchick17 so you think nelson mandella was wrong ? he used violence
dragonfitter 6 months ago
@dragonfitter No, what I said is that some who during the Vietnam era who claimed that peace was the only way then took to bombing government building and colleges. They were hypocrites; taking the law into their own hands and not using the political and judicial process. What Mandella dealt with is completely different. The protest movement was just when it focused on questioning the governments actions not degrading the soldiers who fought. There is never an excuse that.
abffchick17 6 months ago 2
@abffchick17 I agree with you to some extent. But blowing up empty ROTC buildings is a far cry from, say, Al Queda killing thousands of innocent people, to push their cause. The 60's protesters tried to be peaceful. Murdering people was not their way. It was the Gov't pigs that turned peaceful protests into violence, (as in Kent State, for example). If the semi-violent protests back then hadn't happened, we might still be fighting in Vietnam.
london2z 5 months ago
@abffchick17 Have you ever heard of the term "Preservation of life"? I agree with you completely of course. There should never be violence in a peaceful protest... But if the only way I am to be heard and taken seriously is when I kill someone who's the cause of my protest to begin with then so be it. Take the Few for the Meany.
panda1345 5 months ago in playlist panda1345's Favorited Videos
@panda1345 That is the excuse that those who murder docs. that perform abortions use, I am not saying that is how you meant it. In the Nam era the majority of that movement were peaceful and they got different officials elected who supported them and even got laws passed (the civil rights movement), they changed the country where the ones who committed violence didn't.
abffchick17 5 months ago
@abffchick17 The true ones were never violent in any way, they ran campaigns to elect people who believed in their cause and fought to change policy by having sit ins and protests. In some cases those empty buildings actually had people in them and they were killed.That was the fringe sect. It wasn't the violent ones who got us out of there it was the ones who used them system and changed the system by shouting until people listened the same goes for the Civil Rights Movement, like Dr. King.
abffchick17 5 months ago
Respond to this video... The government itself made grave errors in judgement as well, incidents like Kent State should never have happened. Just as the majority of those who practice the faith of Islam live in peaceful coexistence, the majority of protesters were non violent. It is the radicals that create hardship for every legitimate cause. Martin Luther King Jr. preached and used non violence and he's one of the major heroes of the Civil Rights Movement.
abffchick17 5 months ago
@abffchick17 Yes of course. People who kill others in a peaceful protest are complete jack asses. But people like a few of these terrorist groups like the Rebels in Libya? they are fighting for freedom. For what they want in life. Think of it as a strike only... blood is spilled.
panda1345 5 months ago