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Pete Townshend on ISIS in Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone: While we're on the subject, when you look at ISIS and Boko Haram — and even what Putin has been up to, to some extent — do you worry about the state of the planet?
Pete Townshend: Not as long as we remember. [Laughs] You know, I am not going to get fucking accused of being a neocon by Arianna Huffington again, that dimwitted woman. [Editor's note: Huffington herself didn't call Townshend a "neocon"; he was described as that in a 2012 piece on the Huffington Post.] But I do think it's very important that we keep our ammunition ready. I do feel there is nothing to worry about as long as we're willing to protect ourselves.
Had America not interceded in World War II, Germany would have taken over the whole of Europe. I think the most important thing is that we remember that. But also remember that we don't need to act until this shit comes to our door. When that happens, whether it comes to our door in a Charlie Hebdo scenario or in a 9/11 scenario, we need to keep calm and to honor our own sense of values and justice and law and the way that we want to live.
RS: Are you able to understand why a young person in America or the U.K. would go join ISIS?
PT: I'm not particularly politically well-grounded, but from 1967 to the mid-Seventies, I was following Meher Baba and also considering joining a Sufi order. It's not exactly Islam, but it's very close. I kind of understand what they mean when they talk about what jihad is, but I don't see how it helps anybody. I don't see how it helps the people in the countries in which they live. They're getting to a point where the so-called caliphate will be run by a bunch of bullies, basically. But then, I've seen this before — in my lifetime, I grew up with bullies at school, I grew up with bullies in the Sea Scouts, I grew up with bullies in my band!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/whos-done-pete-townshends-ambivalent-farewell-20150507
Rolling Stone: While we're on the subject, when you look at ISIS and Boko Haram — and even what Putin has been up to, to some extent — do you worry about the state of the planet?
Pete Townshend: Not as long as we remember. [Laughs] You know, I am not going to get fucking accused of being a neocon by Arianna Huffington again, that dimwitted woman. [Editor's note: Huffington herself didn't call Townshend a "neocon"; he was described as that in a 2012 piece on the Huffington Post.] But I do think it's very important that we keep our ammunition ready. I do feel there is nothing to worry about as long as we're willing to protect ourselves.
Had America not interceded in World War II, Germany would have taken over the whole of Europe. I think the most important thing is that we remember that. But also remember that we don't need to act until this shit comes to our door. When that happens, whether it comes to our door in a Charlie Hebdo scenario or in a 9/11 scenario, we need to keep calm and to honor our own sense of values and justice and law and the way that we want to live.
RS: Are you able to understand why a young person in America or the U.K. would go join ISIS?
PT: I'm not particularly politically well-grounded, but from 1967 to the mid-Seventies, I was following Meher Baba and also considering joining a Sufi order. It's not exactly Islam, but it's very close. I kind of understand what they mean when they talk about what jihad is, but I don't see how it helps anybody. I don't see how it helps the people in the countries in which they live. They're getting to a point where the so-called caliphate will be run by a bunch of bullies, basically. But then, I've seen this before — in my lifetime, I grew up with bullies at school, I grew up with bullies in the Sea Scouts, I grew up with bullies in my band!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/whos-done-pete-townshends-ambivalent-farewell-20150507
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
to a large degree our ongoing actions and policies help in a great way to perpetuate and grow what we have seen. in my lifetime anyway.
aside from him willing to give his opinion as it was asked for( i agree with most of it), who really gives a fuck what an individual musician says. Especially one not a citizen of THIS country.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Godfather.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/05/11/duck-dynasty-stars-think-bobby-jindal-should-run-for-in-2016/?intcmp=features
Godfather.
unfortunately, more often than not, it seems the only people who realize this are the ones who are already in tune enough to understand the issues already enough to have made up their own mind.
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Not every pronouncement that mentions Islam is a call to wage war in the interests of "security."
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Which skit is funnier Canada or the USA version?
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/11/snl-accused-of-plagiarizing-sketch-from-this-hour-has-22-minutes
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Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1