For What It's Worth...

For What It's Worth

Buffalo Springfield

For What It's Worth has, for years, been mistakenly thought to have been written about the 1970 Kent State Ohio shootings of four students during a protest. That would be a little difficult, though, since Stephen Stills wrote the song about what were known as the Sunset Strip Curfew Riots in late 1966.

Residents and business owners in the Sunset Strip area were becoming fed up with the late-night traffic and noise due to young people going to the clubs on the strip. They got the city to mandate a curfew; the young clubbers were not amused. They organized a demonstration in November that ended up getting violent. Stills wrote the song, and it was recorded in December. The rest is history - just inaccurate history.

The song, though, does fit in with the times, and definitely fits in with the events at Kent State in Ohio in 1970. "There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear." The feelings and sentiment of this song also ring true for me today.

I would like to see more people from my generation, children of the 60's and 70's, to remember what was happening during those times. Too many people I know and grew up with just voted for one of the most vile presidential candidates who ever existed. NO, I am not talking about Hillary; she was slandered and smeared beyond comprehension, and my generation fell for it in a big way.

Now we are stuck with a POTUS who, at best, is facilitating the dismantling of programs that have taken years to put into place, at worst, is colluding with his buddies Bannon-Himmler and Miller-Goebbels and/or Vladimir Putin to dismantle our democracy.

Wake up, people! You have been DUPED!

RESIST!!

For What It's Worth Stephens Stills

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound