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  • great, great song . . .

    OLD RED

    I wish Icould write even remotely like this . . .

  • Dude I can almost play every one of his songs. + ohio is my jam =P

    :)))))))

  • This isn't just Neil Young. It's Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young to be fair.

  • if peaceful revolution is made impossible, violent revolution is inevitable

  • Revolutions never happen peacefully. You don't make a revolution with silk gloves.

    There's a reason society was never intended to be run by a bunch of 18 year olds.

    Just remember, the quickest way to get killed is to throw a brick at a man who is holding a rifle.

  • in your info... dont you mean "anti-war"?

    thought you might wanna fix that

  • my dad and uncle both attended kent state university during this time. crazy shit

  • land of the free, unless you disagree with someone. This was a disgrace

  • "land of the free, home of the brave", more like a indigenous holocaust and land of the slaves. Just like Che Guevara, a group of people tried to change the world, and got killed trying to do so. God bless America

  • YUP...GOT UR BACK....is there anything these money/power hunger reprobates didn't contaninate....

  • Yeah, cause Cuba is a great place to live.

  • I wasn't referring to any country in specific you know. I do agree that America is most likely the best country, But even the best country is full of corruption and stricken by the influence of money. There truly is no real good place to be anymore.

  • What have you ever seen another country? Canada doesnt have mega over populated areas, huge pollutants but i admit we still have to much, kent state U :P, retard ex presidents(i love obama). Dont go around saying your the best, there will be other opinions. like europe has great places to and i bet they will think their country is best, it just depends who you are. and no i do not support the BC adds saying we are the best place on earth, i hate gordon campbell :P

  • i agree with buzzman276 and we can't think about it still like that because if you hold a grudge you can't spread peace only more hate. i believe the government knows what they are doing, for the most part, they do make mistakes and i'm not the biggest fan nixon but this was a sign of weakness on both sides of the conflict

  • Whoever is Kitchenwitch83, they were not being peaceful. they were throwing bombs at they guard. im not saying that what the national guard did was smart. but if you had bombs thrown at you then you would freak out too. but those who were dead weren't the ones throwing the bombs. and one of them was my fathers friend

  • They were throwing rocks at the guards. They were also throwing back tear gas grenades that were thrown by the Ohio National Guard.

    Where did you hear this?

  • great vid whoever did this. these images is what i call a show of force, the force and power and feelings images can bring.

  • this songs the shitttt!!!!

  • i read that Stills said Young heard the news,took his flat top walked off into the garden,and 10minutes later,came back with this song...

  • good story. and also, the song was first play withing two days after the killings.

  • Ohio! HO HO HO HO!

  • My mother went to Kent when this happened and was in the croud when the Guard started shooting; she saw one of the girls get killed though she doesn't remember which one it was.

    This kind of thing makes me sick, the kids there were just protesting, they were being peaceful about it though! Why did they have to shoot them? Government...*shakes head sadly*

  • I lived through this. We'd seen enough. We shut down the university....

  • Never foget this, ever or it will repeat. Harmless students armed w/ a microphone and the right to assemble against those weak little national guardsmen w/ guns. This makes me sick. I hope Nixon is burning in hell.

  • The ammendment to carry guns was for the minute men of local wars to protect their home, and before that they were used to hunt. Carrying a gun now, aside for hunting, has only ever lead to accidents and gang violence.

  • "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." "well regulated militia" refers to everyone, and even if it did'nt refer to everyone, then according to your logic the national guardsmen, who are the legitimate and official militia, still would have had the right to carry guns.

  • National Guard isnt a militia, go read a book

  • why do you have a constitutional amendment to carry guns if you're not gonna use them. SHOOT BACK

  • I knew the man that threw one of the first rocks at Kent State when this happened; he was my sixth grade art teacher and also my neighbor. Now im a senior and i smoke weed with him everyday... no joke

  • nixon and bush, this is for you

  • I can play this on my guitar =P

  • neil young would be proud.

  • So can I. :)

  • Was Neil Young a liberal or an Anarchist?

    Because either way he probably wouldn't like Nixon.

    Even though Nixon was a decent president. Better than Kennedy, hands down.

  • This is my favorite Nixon song.

  • great song. it's amazing how often a musicians greatest music is inspired by tragedy

  • Wonderfull music! Ademilson, Brazil.

  • neil young is one of my heroes i grew up listening to him with my dad learned how to play alot of his songs on the guitar and me and my dad sit around every weekend and play his songs and sing them around bond fires and its those moments in life that i will always remember and help me through the rough parts of life

  • The internet does not care what you did with your dad growing up.

  • I have the album 4 way street in which csn&y did this live.. Talk about a killer song on a killer album. God bless Neil Young. He is a hero..

  • Things like that, when military kills their own people only happens in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea.

    And USA... "The home of freedom", yeah right.

  • Extremely powerful song. Wow I can't even put this song into words.

  • they already put it into words dipshit

  • Damn everybody is worked into a shoot!!!

  • hop2171, bet you are spouting your shit words standing in front of a mirror. don't be too cruel with yourself and shut the fuck up retarded fag

  • sorry, alan canfora is waving a black flag at 2:55

  • Alan Canfora at 2:58

  • if you want to know more about those days google "alancanfora" a witness who was shot in his wrist

  • wrong board loser

  • liberals are the reason there exist decent societies. i think you meant to right fascist distopias. no biggie though, we all know you're an idiot anyways, so you've not let us down. though I'm sure your parents are quite depressed, and I recommend a healthy dose of suicide.

  • This is my dog checkers...

  • ur a bitch

  • Who the fuck are you talking to? I bet you are some southern pile of dog shit you fucking low life loser you. Who put your ass in charge to say who wants to hear what here? Bring it on fun bags!! Redneck? You live in the redneck capitol of the country!! Move to cuba douchbag!

  • I cant believe the filth ive read here,while the US were away in Vietnam destroying not just civilians,but there land!with radioactive poison,even killing some of the soldiers that spread that on the land(Cancer,aswell as the vietnamese exposed for decades)not only that they were also killing there brightest breed,the hippies predicted(what we all resent) a corporate world and corrupt governments pumping propoganda,but most of you are too pumped up in that crap to even start explaining myself

  • I MASTERED THIS SONG. And ...why must the military kill inocents!..we did it Vietnam! we did it here! we did it in Iraq! PRETTY MUCH ALL WARS! * be more peaceful* (im no hippie so dont even think about it!)

  • i hope your kid hates you and becomes a hippie.

  • Lol, while their comrade were fighting in vietnam, they were shooting at unarmed hippies...

    Doesn't sound glorious to me...

  • eat a dick you fuckin coward

  • This is the kind of enlightened comment that put our society in the dungheep for the past 40 years. That all changed on 11/4/08!

  • Am i the only one who thinks that theotiscampbell should shut the fuck up go and make sure his kids aren't gettin shot at University? And if you don't have kids that aint the point...

  • Barely saved were they

    ejb12439 eh?????

  • REX84

  • i hope your kid throws a rock at me.

  • Hey this is Amie,

    i'm the maker of the video, thanks for all the heartfelt response from the song, thats exactly why it was written.

    reywilliamr puts it exactly how it is, it could be your kids someday, be thankful for where you live cause its probably a nice house in a safe place.

    -amie

  • if you weren't there you don't know shit about any of the students and what they were fighting for-i was there-class of 70 and a year later viet-nam-class of 71 with a combat medics badge as my reward -we were fighting to change the world and some of us havent given up so move over while-as we said in nam-kick ass and plow on. get a life you morons it may be your kids some day

  • It's a crying shame that those kids died, I don't know where I stand though. My dad was an Israeli pilot, my uncles were all in the israeli infantry and I'm national guard. I've heard some nasty horror stories about dumb kids taking their teenage angst out on soldiers who are just doing their job or minding their own business. The Guard shouldn't have opened fire on those kids. But if someone puts my life or that of any of my battlebuddies I'll return fire, enemy or otherwise.

  • spoiled rich coward bastards saved by dads cash

  • probally voted for olbomber too

  • theotiscampbell HAS NO HEART!!! U sick sick man!

  • wow otis ur a psycho

    

    p.s. very glad i dont know you and you dont know where i live.

  • kind of reminds me of another massacre that occured in boston in 1770, that led to a certain rebellion...

  • no the people didnt want war

  • government killed own citizens...you defend... you=trash

  • If this was Britain we would have probably asked them to stop what they were doing, with the incentive of tea and cake though :P

  • i love this song. wen i lost my virginity it was playing on the radio

  • yeah man i was great wasnt i....lets get together again you loved it

  • This is a very nicely edited video.... love th song, Neil Young is a genius. I heard he wrote this song in a half hour. The armed assault on unarmed students shocked the whole nation and all the university students across the nation went on a boycott following the incident, all caused by Nixon lying about "his secret plan" to end the war.. by invading Laos and Cambodia. Lying to the public will never illicit respect from the citizens it attempts to govern. His fall from grace was classic.

  • is the USA that great come people think about it compare us to the USSR or Nazi Germany after we defeated them we picked up some of there citizen controll

  • College kids couldn't get drafted back then, they were listed as students, and therefore they weren't allowed to be drafted.

  • They created Multiculturalism to divide, when it finally explodes they will introduce martial law and then the dark age will begin.

  • great song

  • Great song?...four people died by the hand of the Government Zero indictments. Same is happening now....except it's money....EVERYONE'S money...yeah...great song. God bless the 4 kids killed.

  • come on man i am sure that he (as i do) agrees completely with you and was summarising it in his agreeance with the song

  • iraq that is, in reply to ufcCanadianhockey87

  • martial law? slow but sure their pushing it on us. just making you think about it can only help

  • Its all about the state of Ohio, Baby.

    Obama, Baby!

  • what does this have to do with obama

  • The state of Ohio is a political battleground,

    in many different ways. . .

  • The state of Ohio has been a social and political battleground fro years!

    DUUUGGHHHHH! Moron

  • This should always be a reminder to Americans that our "democracy" is in many ways just an illusion.

  • This was an absolute digrace. I remembered when it happend.Richard Nixon was a bum,I am sure that he is burning in hell.

  • so sad becuz the whole war in iraq nowadays is almost as bad as vietnam ..and no one even bothers to speak up anymore :(

  • dude the iraq war is not even as close to being as bad as vietnam. there is no comparison buddy.

  • its still a disgrace that bush should shot for

  • its also congresses falt. dont point the finger at one person. people probably like you were dumb enough to believe his bullshit.

  • it's because most people our age these days are too lazy, they think its nothing to do with them, the majority of young people are politically retarded.

  • And they are indoctrinated by the schools. They are not taught how to think critically. They accept whatever they hear in class as truth. Very few are independent thinkers.

  • Exactly. And when you think idependantly now your punished, myself and several friends were often either snubbed or sent out of class for simply questioning certain things such as immigration and unemployement and we were simply shunned for being either unpolitically correct, or simply because the teacher could not give an answer. All I can say is I'm glad not to be at school anymore, although again at college views are restricted somewhat.

  • I would think the really big difference is that there is no draft in U.S. now, so the college kids really are not forced to care.

  • love this song.

    i think it is really cool.

    because i am at kent state right now and i had to watch a video last night about may 4.

    it was weird sitting where the soldier shot their guns and looking at the memorials of those who died.

  • The more things change...

  • great song, good vid well done

  • How soon they forget..

  • a lot of things good came in nixons presidency but this sure wasnt 1 of them and watergate didnt help him in any form

  • name two

  • The vietnam war came to an end,tensions in Russia were reduced, we suceeded in negotiations with China for diplomacy, the elimination of the Gold Standard. maybe you could read some history books or encyclopedias on Nixon to find more. That watergate scandal made most people forget about any good(which was bad).

  • 1 million "atta-boys" is erased by one "oh shit!"

  • lying, cheating and slander became the foundation for running a political campaign ... profanity replaced prose ... you have rose-tinted glasses, my friend ... Nixon was a prick, and a poor excuse for a President. There was no good that came out of him period.

  • good song for neil young i guesse

  • you did a very good job making this, kudos!!!

  • Crappy Job ... Shitty Video ... JUST KIDDING ! Its awsome its the best at the end ... You show the dead. When you mix drugs with the Army your just asking for it. Great video awsome song thxs for sharing it with the world :)

  • yeah they did fagot

  • man you need to go read the articles this is tragic american history

  • I wonder if the men who pulled the trigger's that day are still alive....And if so how they feel.

  • this song was written after 4 protesting students

    were shot by a security guard who overeacted.

  • Correction: Sandy Scheuer was going to class and not involved with the protest. She was a considerable distance away. The students were shot by Ohio National Guardsman, not security guards. The guard found themselves cornered--by unarmed, albeit angry students. Instead of shouldering arms and marching out th regroup, they chose to shoot their way out. The real culprit, however, was Gov. James Rhodes, who sent in troops (who were exhausted after a Teamsters strike) with live ammunition.

  • Ohioguy19, have you considered our own bloody history of ethnocentrism? Does anyone here remember the native americans? Does anyone remember the genocide of the people who were on our continent first? You have no right to complain about China's imperialism when we have our own capitalist version of it! Are you one of those bastards who think that all chinese are bad?

  • SgtColbert42 -

    You do realize that ethnocentrism and capitalism cannot coexist, right? Considering that capitalists just want the best man to do the most work he can, regardless of what country he's from, capitalists SUPPORT open borders. Pick up a f**king book by someone OTHER then Chomsky or Marx, and learn something. Don't just sprout what the "intellectuals" tell you.

  • Egoist1957

    Are you denying that what we did to the native americans had any relation to ethnocentrism?

  • No (I never even mentioned the Native Americans). I was explaining the opposition between ethnocentrism and capitalism.

  • Which proves my point, that ethnocentrism is not just tied to China.

  • ummmm....

    there's this little thing called reality.

    they are not mutually exclusive.

    there are plenty of historical and current examples of ethnocentrism and capitalism coexisting.

    there are markets for ethnocentric

    media which have,are, and will be serviced by suppliers in our capitalist system.

    your definition that:

    "capitalists just want the best man to do the most work he can, regardless of what country he's from" is just as "pie in the sky" as those who think communism is faultless.

  • Nobody listen to OhioGuy19, as he is broadcasting a message of love for war and a hate for peace.

  • does anyone know what key this song is in?

  • It's in the key of D I think.

  • actually F or Dm goes really well with the cd on guitar

  • America keep your guns...Canada doesnt want em

  • Nobody ever accused Canada of wanting anything that makes sense. They want the most immigrants per capita of any nation in the world (250,000 legally and 250,000 illegally per year)... What does Canada's government know?

  • This is very well put together. Gives me goosebumps.

  • You astonish me

  • I'm so cool, I astonish everybody.

  • what do you mean with 'destructive' . what does he want to change??

    im european so.. :p

  • ROFL communism is a valid political theory just like democracy, that isn't to say i agree with it, but it is far from terrorism; how exactly is obama a terroising anybody?

  • electric is awful compared to acoustic

  • but very good musik too

  • Great clip, i love this song

  • just sad!!

  • -China is using its clout to turn the nations of the Third World against America

    (no joke, China prohibited three central American nations from receiving the President of Taiwan at the last minute...and they obeyed)

    -China now operates the Panama Canal

    -China is building the world's largest container port in the Bahamas

    -China & Russia operate an electronic spy base in Cuba

    -China has jammed US propaganda transmissions to the Third World

  • -China has fired multiple ballistic missiles over and near Taiwan

    -China has threatened US carriers to keep out of the Taiwan Strait (and our carriers have obeyed)

    -China has threatened to take out all the US bases in Asia, invade South Korea and initiate strikes against the continental US should America intervene in Taiwan

    -China has stolen America's most advanced nuclear secrets (we let the only Chinese spy we caught-Wen Ho Lee-go free)

  • Go to amazon and read the description of this book-

    China: The Gathering Threat

    -China has claimed Taiwan, the Paracels, the Spratleys, the Japanese Senkau Islands and South China sea as Chinese

    -China is buying the ultimate in modern weaponry en masse from Russia

    -China has formalized an official military alliance with Russia against America

    -China has built a veritable forest of missile launchers astride Taiwan

  • My grandpappy was in the United States Marine Corps. He fought in Korea and he said that it was fun and that killing Chinese communists was the best thing he ever did.

    That's true...

    See how different people have different opinions and perspective?

  • That's just disgusting.

  • How so? That's just how some people are. Not everybody shares the revulsion to war that the modern hollywood elite would like you to think. Some people are perfectly at home in a combat zone.

    If you asked him about it, he'd make like he was holding a rifle, say "the government gave me an M1 and had me go hunt gooks" then he'll do a comical mocking of Koreans by pulling his eyelids tighter, then he'll laugh some, and make shooting noises.

    Everybody has their own perspective.

  • You're an idiot. You seriously are. What is with this Republican obsession with Hollywood?

    I know you watch movies, so you apparently don't have a problem with what they produce.

    Your stupid granddad might have done that but what about everyone elses granddads who died during the war that they never got to see again?

  • Everybody else? If EVERYBODY else had lost a grandfather in the war, I would be one of the people left alive today.

    Statistically about five percent of combatants die in war, unfortunate but hardly a majority.

  • Big surprise, you don't understand what I'm saying.

    I'm saying your grandfather might have been happy to do it, but what about everybody else in that war who may have just wanted to go home? Not everyone thinks fighting proxy wars for the United States is cool shit.

    What's funny today is that North Korea is still a threat, and China is not even Communist anymore.

  • China is a racist imperialist nightmare. If you think they're no longer an authoritarian police state, then you're on a lot more drugs than most crazy people.

    North Korea is hardly a threat, they have a decaying country, they have virtually no electrical power, most of their people are eating wild animals, rats, and grass.

    China is an economic colossus with a strong military, a history of violent and aggressive expansion, and a sense of cultural and racial supremacy to their neighbors.

  • Authoritarianism and Communism are two absolutely different things.

    Communism is an economic doctrine stating that the workers of a country should own the means of production.

    They are an authoritarian police state, but that's something that American needs to point out and urge to change.

    By the way, America is the premiere imperialist nation in the world right now, invading Iraq for oil, setting up bases everywhere.

    Your political awareness is entirely selective at best.

  • America didn't invade Iraq to gain oil for America. America invaded Iraq to gain oil for Israel (google: MOSUL-HAIFA pipeline).

    America is fighting proxy wars for Israel, not proxy wars for itself.

  • That too, but America was facing a big problem with OPEC speculating about switching their trade currency to the Euro, dumping the US dollar which had been its mainstay since its inception.

    The reason is because the US dollar is losing its value, and quickly.

    We took Iraq, and basically made it into a puppet for our government, so essentially the US is now a member of OPEC.

  • The US dollar has lost its value because the US government has engaged in decades of wasteful spending while they simultaneously printed more of their worthless FIAT currency that was no longer backed by gold let alone gold and silver (it should be backed by both).

    Nobody has any real idea how many US Dollars are in circulation as the Federal Reserve stopped publishing the M3 money supply data in 2005.

  • No argument there.

    I'm well aware of the debasement of our currency, but still, it's not an excuse to go kill other people's children, not to mention our own.

  • Communism necessarily entails the concurrent existence of a system of political tyranny and terror against the masses.

    You need to read- Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.

    Communism in all of its forms has WITHOUT EXCEPTION always required tyranny to either implement or to both implement and maintain. Communism is contrary to human nature in that it suppresses man's desire to be free.

    Communism is inherently authoritarian and oppressive, at the very root of the ideology it is such.

  • Fine. You want to believe that, go ahead. You are wrong, but whatever.

    Communism hasn't really existed in it's true form in the world.

    I will admit that its inherently flawed by design, but it doesn't require what Mao and Stalin did.

  • The idea of "communism has never existed in the true form" is something that communists say simply so they can write themselves a blank check to "try again" and in the process kill another 100 million of their political enemies.

    If I said "Nazism in it's true form has never existed" the implication is "it would be a great thing, give it another chance" nobody would take such a remark seriously.

    The world has seen the horrors of true communism, the only communism there is.

  • OhioGuy19 that was the best remark ive ever read on youtube in my life

  • true

  • Communism is merely the consolidation of the means of production into the hands of the working class. With similar policies towards property in general. That's it.

    Communist dictatorships had nothing to do with, and were not illustrated in the original theories of Karl Marx.

    Marx was going for an egalitarian society, and obviously a dictatorship is fundamentally at odds with that.

    I'm not advocating Communism, but it's dishonest of you to misrepresent history.

  • Depriving people of their personal private property naturally requires a massively powerful dictatorship, and that's the truth of the matter. Marx was an aspiring dictator promoting an ideology that he knew would lead to death and misery across Europe. His doctrine of the destruction of nations was aimed at destroying the whole of Western Civilization.