Informant38

I feel that in my whole life I have never done anything of any conspiratorial nature and I resent very much and very deeply the implication of being called before this Committee that in some way because my opinions may be different from yours, that I am any less of an American than anyone else.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

tribal elder Pete Seeger, before the HUAC Inquisition, 15 August 1955
link from the pre-Lacanian, post-structuralist, spiritually edifying, and, above all else, steadfast
::: wood s lot :::

{or is that post-Lacanian, pre-structuralist?}