Brian Eno - Banned Anti-War Demo in London

[MyDadsMusic1]

I liked all the Americans that I have met in my life, Please if you are American try not to take offense at what the sane people living in "Little America" (Formerly the free country called Great Britain) are saying about your government. Successive administrations in America and here have been and are being controlled by the makers and dealers in arms. It is THEM we must become free from, Look up what Eisenhower said about war, and arms, and poverty in the world.....

[kapsulamusic]

the hate of americans in europe is because the american goverment screws everyone all over the world plus america even thow its a first power it acts like a 3rd world country with their corruption and control , politician here its all a joke know one believes in them ..just old,stupid, ignorant, racist people and that is a fact!!!! capitalism has destroy this world like virus

[mloaks]

@kapsulamusic

well, they got VOTED in! your alternative is?

[joanofarcxxi]

Unfortunately, there is a massive hatred of americans in europe. I am european, but have lived in the US for some time, and have an american accent. As soon as I open my mouth while in europe, I got treated differently: with contempt and an attitude. Shame... because there are millions of americans who hate war and the politicians who endorse it. the american people in general is very generous and willing to help others in need. they are optimistic and kind.

[mloaks]

@joanofarcxxi

folks like you are why we are the greatest nation in history. glad you are here, sorry for the 'tudes you face there. most of us hate war, but will defend ourselves against those who hate US, international jealousy and evil be d@mned...

[smackyjack]

I dislike political bullshit from anyone on any issue, but in particular entertainers, and preachers.

[smackyjack]

I hate political entertainers. I don't give a shit what you think.

[maelstone]

who controls the US ?...In my opinion the city of London co-operates with washington over the heads of both brits and americans - and i think that the hatred towards "america" (both south and north?) is an intended strategy from the people in europe who wants to regain their old colonies...

[revtkatt]

Eno was god, is god, and will be god. How can such a smart man be merely a musician and performer? I expected another dry video on music theory, which is fine, albeit his music is infinately better. Instead, I find he is speaking geopolitical truth. Stuff hard to say here in the States. Granted, very UK oriented and eventually dry, but he has a clue and is willing to tie his public persona to it. Mr. Eno continues to impress. DH, Irvine, CA, USA (forgive me)

[billythewill67]

"How can such a smart man be merely

a musician and performer?"

What are you saying?

[msbfd]

re stopping fascism: we have a hell of a lot more power to stop fascism at home than we do on the opposite side of the globe. Like the so-called pro-lifers who preach death everywhere but rapists' babies, I will take anti-fascists seriously when they propose, in bumpersticker terms, "impeach, prosecute, convict, execute" here in America FIRST. Only when we have wiped our own ass should we go out in the world telling others to wash their hands.

[du2vye]

And this was banned?

That's the irony. Maybe Americans and Britons should defend their own freedom at home.

[kookofor96]

Hearing this reminds me of why I am so goddamn proud to be a fat, intellectually lazy american who believes everything I see on TV. What do Marx and Hegel know. History does repeat itself, but the second time it's not a farce, it's a sitcom. Ooops! Commercial is almost over. I've got to get back to making a sandwich and watching reruns of Happy Days. God Bless George Bush.

[belzondium]

I love the man's work and usually appreciate what he has to say, so it saddens me that he's so dead-ass wrong on this issue.

[salvadorveri]

what is incorrect?

[sausagezombie]

Yes, the Bush admin lied about the war, and now we have added more gasoline to the fires of Jihad. The world is a more dangerous place than ever, but the pretexts of our wars are merely justifications for invasions for corporate profit. This, too has backfired. Where is the $20 barrel of oil Rupert Murdoch promised after endorsing the war? Not only are our leaders corrupt, they're also incompetent.

[TheFinalCut2207]

I love listening to this man speak.

[Mistertrapdoor]

Stylish Brian with his Prada.

[Malaka57]

We are not preventing anything in Iraq or Afghanistan. We have made a terrifying mistake there, but not Bush and Co., they wanted permanent war, irrespective against whom. And for what? Democracy? I don't think so.... to perpetuate power. Period.

[idealtypical]

I agree: the mess in Iraq is all about money & power (2 terms for the same thing!); & it's all for the benefit of an elite few: the super-rich.

So many honest people here in the USA are easily tricked into supporting Bush/the GOP. They're not given access to the education they need to see through propaganda & lies telling them it's their moral/patriotic duty to support these loathsome military adventures.

& the reason our education system is so bad is because Reagan/Bush took away its funding!

[idealtypical]

Thank God the vast majority of my beloved USA has finally figured out that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism, that Bush & his handlers lied to us.

Finally more & more people realize that the most patriotic thing you can do is educate yourself to see through the propaganda/fear-machines and exercise your democratic duty to stand up to the charlatans!

Eno is standing up for our right (& responsibility!) to hold our democratic governments accountable for their actions. Bravo!

[Jhensy2001]

A disgrace. Oh sure, America is the enemy of civilization, not the radical believers of a medieval religion who behead and massacre non-believers. Too complicated too address that, right Mr. Prada sunglasses? Much easier to just blame the US. Stick to airport music.

[anaimou]

If you can't see by now how criminally reckless and incompetent Bush's war is, and how, far from making "us" safe, it's made the world a more dangerous place and traumatized millions of people (Iraqi and American), then you're a dangerous fanatic.

Right on, Eno.

[Jhensy2001]

You have to fight fascist evil. Period. Radical Islam gets no more leeway. It must be stopped, or their next slaughter will be nuclear, and the deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands. You fight them now to prevent such a holocaust. You think they wouldn't do it to NY or London if they could?

Wake up, Eno.

[idealtypical]

Shame on you, Jhensy. Irrespective of your political differences with Eno, you should at least be applauding his calls for intellectual honesty, the preservation of a substantive right to dissent, and open debate. If the actions of the USA-UK nexus is to be supported, as you claim, then you owe it to anyone with whom you communicate to CONVINCE rather than propagandize and/or threaten (emptily). The ad hominem nature of your comments serves to undermine the credibility of your position.

[Jhensy2001]

Before 9/11, such comments would have been ad hominem. Mass slaughter by these religious fascists is now reality, whether you like it or not. The civilized world cannot cross their fingers and hope the bad men go away. Brian Eno, for all his moral righteousness, will not do a DAMN THING to protect NYers like my daughter and myself, who work in Manhattan skyscrapers. If and when that happens, Eno will say, "What a shame, such horror" and STILL not fight the evil.

[idealtypical]

But your moral resignation is based purely on gesture and innuendo. Without taking seriously the substance of any opinion that isn't yours, how is it that you expect anyone to take your "moral righteousness" more seriously than Eno's? It's not enough simply to proclaim your steadfast opposition to religious fascism, and presume that everybody around you will accept whatever formulation of world politics you-or the Bush administration-feel to be implicit in that label to be morally binding.

[Jhensy2001]

I don't agree with everything the Bush administration or the U.S. does, but I do know we have to fight this very real threat. Can the left display just a little anger with radical Islam, maybe 10%, please? Is 10% too much to ask? It's 100% hate Bush/America, all the time. Insanity.

[idealtypical]

I think it's awfully suspicious (& of dubious moral foundation) for you to preoccupy yourself with the demand that a group of people that you call "the left"-that you & know is to be amorphous as to be chimerical-display a 'percentage of anger' that comports with a litmus test of your own devising in order to 'prove' to you that its membership is sufficiently dedicated to fighting a 'real threat,' which you insist to be 100% radical Islam, & to have 0% to do with international oil & arms wealth.

[Jhensy2001]

I'll take that as a no, then. LOL.

[idealtypical]

Wrong. The problem is that you're engaged in a rhetoric that is at best egocentric & at worst Stalinistic. You've shown that you don't care one bit what anyone's argument is or what their ideas are, only that they register the sufficient allegiance to whatever you frame the issue to be. I shouldn't let it exasperate me so, but I can't help but despair at the depths to which either you or the technicians of orthodoxy whom you follow will stoop in wrecking democracy & replacing it with demagogery.

[idealtypical]

Who is 'the left' exactly? Brian Eno? Really. Eno's actually a fairly conservative guy. He's calling for things like participatory democracy & THE RULE OF LAW. This is a leftist ideal? That, my friend, is more than insane. It says something SCARY about our political climate if being pro-democracy makes you a leftist.

Worst, you display no intention of making arguments; you're replicating sound-bites. Think for yourself! Don't trot out innuendo; insist on convincing & being convinced!

[jugoponos]

TX for upload adycousins, so true.

Mr ENO, Human beeing & Artist par exellance.

There IS hope for england. Not sure for usa.

MERCI, BRIAN ENO!!!! Long live in peace.

[faust100000]

You're in the wrong place, un3dited. There are plenty of videos of Bill O'reilly on youtube: go find those. They're right on your intellectual level.

[un3dited]

Just attack the person, real way to prove a point.

You know what that is called? It's called a logical fallacy. It means that you said something that has no merit because you have no way to prove it. You just said it because you wanted to hastily discredit me.

Go ahead, listen to this guy. What he doesn't know and what a lot people don't understand is that if we lose this war we will get attacked again.

[Normandt88]

God bless philosophers and poets!

Normand

[un3dited]

Damn, you guys want the Terrorists to win, you want the U.S. to fail.

We lost vietnam by losing on the homefront. We didnt lose because our military might wasnt strong enough, or the soldiers were weak and tired. It was our homefront. Luckily, vietnam wasn't an global network of terrorists that is funded by billions and billions of dollars yearly. But Iraq is... If we leave iraq without finishing, we will get attacked again.

We must win.

God Bless USA

[schenkmore0]

why just the USA? Well, actually, there is no god, but if god exists, why should he/she/it bless just the USA and not the rest of the world, when we're all indeed his/her/its creation?

[flippypimpstein]

Actually the terrorists will lose, they already are losing. George Bush has a 20 something approval rate and he will lose the election just as the usa has already lost the war. On your user page you say dumb "F--- B-- GO KILL YOURSELF" Spoken like a true amerikan. Why not start with yourself? Bye Bye. Poof.

[koridatz]

FUCKING SEXY!!!!!

[magnussg]

A serious artist makes a statement. The truth.

Grate!

[PhilabustaBlue]

A lot of people are losing me here. It doesn't so anti-American to me. It sounds like he's mad at his own government for buying into the U.S. rationale for the war and the selling of arms to promote democracy. Socialism? I don't think so. Is he not poking at Russia as well? That the media has an agenda of it's own, I don't disagree.

[einhander2112]

Ok i get the message.. most of you hate americans..does that automaticly make you a better person? NO . Just because you dont like one or maybe two americans dosnt justify the entire country.There are more ppl in America who are against war than there are ppl living in your countries.There is no need for being openly hateful for any reason.

[adycousins]

No. most of us hate your government. Some people think that means we hate all americans, but that's because they think anybody that opposes the war hates americans. The majority of americans OPPOSE the war, it would be foolish and unfair to dismiss americans because of the actions of their lying, warmongering leaders.

[xbry89x]

This man speakeths the truth.

[shatterglass]

Longtime Eno fan here disappointed to see Mr. Eno fall in with "Stop the War", one of many groups that have co-opted this war to promote other agendas, primarily socialism. It's ironic now reading "Swollen Appendices", as Eno anxiously waits for someone (bomb-dropping American pilots, eventually) to help the poor Bosnian Muslims. And speaking of Muslims, the composer of "Qu'ran" shouldn't ignore the threat of censorship in the face of growing sharia-based attacks in Europe.

[PhilabustaBlue]

Sounds like you're reading into things a bit much to suit your views...typical right-wing trait isn't it?  Sounds to me as though Mr. Eno is speaking to the abuse of power which leads us all down the road to neverneverland. I don't think you'll find him endorsing muslim attacks in Britain anytime soon.

[maggotbrain342]

There is nothing wrong with anyone asking for a stop to war. It is impossible for stopping war to be negative. war hurts... in every way possible. Not many things in this world are black and white but one thing is: war= horrible.

[nosadsongs]

To all who feel sorry for me and think I am rude and "americanish": I happen to have been born in Scotland, raised London for 30 years before coming to the US. I have been here for 20 years now and I have never heard so much clap trap in my life as the misinformation the BBC and the liberal UK media puts out about the US. It's no wonder people in the UK hate Americans. Don't believe everything you read.

[adycousins]

I don't feel sorry for you. People hate America because their government drops high explosives on civilians or pays proxies to do it for them. I don't believe everything I read - particularly things written by you. Please stop posting your drivel on my videos and get back to watching Fox.

[DGS120]

Lackey to the fascist American state!!

[detectivesyme]

Wake me up when this washed up glam boy is done reading the paper.

[thimble288]

lol, but still, stfu

[enquirewithin]

Poor Nosadsongs. A sad victim of neo-con spin. The BBC has failed very badly in stopping the lies that led up to war crimes of Iraq.

[metzgerg4]

most of your comments are rude and very 'americanish'

[lwirbel]

Sorry, nosadsongs, but there really IS no legitimate position in favor of the unilateral invasion of Iraq. It just can't be made/rationalized.

[yourcamden]

Nor is there any mention of Brown allowing Sweden to SHIP and dump their nuclear waste in in the UK.

[nosadsongs]

sorry brian. big fan of your roxy days and beyond, but you have, like so many in britain, been influenced by the British Brainwashing Corporation. wake up and smell reality

[lmurcutt]

what happened in the middle, did you loose your footing or something lol

thanks for all your work :)

[adycousins]

got bored, and my arm was aching and I couldn't be arsed to put a cutaway in there...