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CNN to Neil Young: Worried That People Think 'That You're Unpatriotic?'
Posted by Michael M. Bates on May 27, 2006 - 11:57.
Friday on CNN Headline News' Showbiz Tonight, a segment was devoted to celebrities getting political. Host Sibala Vargas began with, "From coast to coast and TV movies and music, stars are speaking out loud and clear." The Dixie Chicks, Jon Bon Jovi, Pearl Jam, Merle Haggard and Paul Simon all oppose the war and the President, the program noted.
Rocker Neil Young, whose recent musical contributions include the toe-tapping ditty "Let's Impeach the President," was asked by Miss Vargas: "Are you concerned that some might think that you`re unpatriotic?" He replied, "Oh, no, I`m not concerned about that in the least. I feel like I`m exercising my right of free speech which is what our boys are fighting for the Iraqi people to have."
Of course Young isn't being unpatriotic. At least not to the United States. That would be impossible.
Neil Young is, and always has been, a Canadian citizen. Which makes one wonder what in the world he means when speaking of "our boys" fighting in Iraq.[/B]
Not that anyone at Showbiz Tonight would ever ask him.
So in the first part he wants the President impeached for the war, and in the next part he says "our boys" are fighting for the Iraqis' freedom? Is he confused?
Now a snip from a Time Magazine interview:
TIME: Are you an American or Canadian citizen?
I’m a Canadian. I’d like to vote in the U.S. election because I feel like I’ve got just as much right to vote in them as anybody else. I’ve lived here for so long, paid taxes for so long and my kids have to register for selective service. I guess I could be a dual citizen, but if I ever had to give up my Canadian citizenship to become American I wouldn’t do it, because I wouldn’t want to hurt Canada. I love Canada. As I get older, more and more I start singing about Canada. My wife’s a California girl, so she loves to be near the ocean, and I love to be near her. So I’m probably going to be here longterm. But a part of me, I don’t know, maybe I’ll get a cabin up in Canada so when I’m older I can sit on the gold coast up in B.C. and look around. Or be up in the Rockies up there around Banff or something. I wouldn’t mind going back, being part of it again.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1110988,00.html
Just because you open your mouth in a free country doesn't automatically make what you say patriotic. Duh.
Since you have to be a citizen of a country to be a traitor, I guess we can't call him one. What would he be then? An insurgent?
Posted by Michael M. Bates on May 27, 2006 - 11:57.
Friday on CNN Headline News' Showbiz Tonight, a segment was devoted to celebrities getting political. Host Sibala Vargas began with, "From coast to coast and TV movies and music, stars are speaking out loud and clear." The Dixie Chicks, Jon Bon Jovi, Pearl Jam, Merle Haggard and Paul Simon all oppose the war and the President, the program noted.
Rocker Neil Young, whose recent musical contributions include the toe-tapping ditty "Let's Impeach the President," was asked by Miss Vargas: "Are you concerned that some might think that you`re unpatriotic?" He replied, "Oh, no, I`m not concerned about that in the least. I feel like I`m exercising my right of free speech which is what our boys are fighting for the Iraqi people to have."
Of course Young isn't being unpatriotic. At least not to the United States. That would be impossible.
Neil Young is, and always has been, a Canadian citizen. Which makes one wonder what in the world he means when speaking of "our boys" fighting in Iraq.[/B]
Not that anyone at Showbiz Tonight would ever ask him.
So in the first part he wants the President impeached for the war, and in the next part he says "our boys" are fighting for the Iraqis' freedom? Is he confused?
Now a snip from a Time Magazine interview:
TIME: Are you an American or Canadian citizen?
I’m a Canadian. I’d like to vote in the U.S. election because I feel like I’ve got just as much right to vote in them as anybody else. I’ve lived here for so long, paid taxes for so long and my kids have to register for selective service. I guess I could be a dual citizen, but if I ever had to give up my Canadian citizenship to become American I wouldn’t do it, because I wouldn’t want to hurt Canada. I love Canada. As I get older, more and more I start singing about Canada. My wife’s a California girl, so she loves to be near the ocean, and I love to be near her. So I’m probably going to be here longterm. But a part of me, I don’t know, maybe I’ll get a cabin up in Canada so when I’m older I can sit on the gold coast up in B.C. and look around. Or be up in the Rockies up there around Banff or something. I wouldn’t mind going back, being part of it again.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1110988,00.html
Just because you open your mouth in a free country doesn't automatically make what you say patriotic. Duh.
Since you have to be a citizen of a country to be a traitor, I guess we can't call him one. What would he be then? An insurgent?
