When I look out my window Many sights to see Donovan

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And when I look in my window
So many different people to be

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And so my friends let’s go back…let me take you to 1964 and let you see what was a’ happenin’…..let me lead you back to the days of my misguided youth when my hair was long and my body slender…when the world tripped the light fantastic and the music was to die for—to the days when we stood for peace, equality and a bit of free love while we were at it….we fought against war and many of us in the war…it was a time when the world it was exploding and nights in white satin never reaching the end….and we loved and hated—we were passionate and we lived—we went and did and would have been appalled that our grand and great grand children would waste life setting in front of screen….but hey if they didn’t I wouldn’t have all those subscribers—-and so we made love not war while the planet about us seemed to explode with reds which to us was no excuse to be dead—but read on kinds ladies and gents and see the lay of the first of the years beyond the last innocent year:

That it’s strange
So strange

The Civil Rights movement Continued on with Dr. King starting the year registering voters in the south while Federal Courts in Mississippi indicted 18 for violating civil rights.

Not all of the issues were white against black as in the case of Malcolm X who was killed by members of Elijah Mohammad’s Nation of Islam.

If you ever question the rights in this you only have to look at Selma, Alabama in which over 50% of the populations was black, but they only made up 1% of the voters. It was the days of TV and when King’s march for voter’s rights was attacked by state troopers with clubs and tear gas it made the evening news and then some.

You got to pick up every stitch
You got to pick up every stitch
You got to pick up every stitch

And suddenly the nation was on fire with protests for civil rights from California to Michigan, where the Governor, George Romney lead a parade of 10,000 and in Chicago where demonstrators blocked rush hour traffic….meanwhile back in Alabama in Selma additional protests were blocked and a white Unitarian minister,demonstrator is beaten into a coma and his trip to the hospital delayed. He dies three days later and more demonstrations errupt

But the US was not the only place that blacks were abused and down trodden–in South Africa it is said that allowing the African native vote would result in domination by Witch doctors and the only way they can have a decent life is by allowing the white man to continue his rule.

And then LBJ summons George Wallace to the Capital while white men are arrested for demonstrators being murdered in Selma but the beating goes on now in Montgomery where the police attack another group of marchers. And Johnson’s civil rights bill reaches congress. and still all manner of other demonstrations being met with violence and resulting in many cases in death

Mmmm, must be the season of the witch
Must be the season of the witch, yeah
Must be the season of the witch

ThenÂ a federal judge’s ruling allows Dr. King and 3,200 to march from Selma to Montgomery while on August 6 the Voting Rights Bill is past into law.

But if we thought that was going to help–5 days after the bill was signed Watts erupted into 7 days of riots which started with a traffic stop and just grew from there. Eventually thousands of National Guardsmen were brought in to assist. In the week of confrontation 34 were killed, 1,100 injured, 4,000 arrested and $100 million dollars of damage was done.

Son everyone was getting involved including The John Birch Society who claimed that American Negroes had no room to complain as they were better off than anywhere else in the world and accused the Civil Rights movement of being created by Communists.

When I look over my shoulder
What do you think I see?

And Johnson, not a new president, but the first time he was actually elected to the position was sworn in and introduced the country to his plans for the Great Society after being sworn in.

When a Viet Cong raid in South Vietnam resulted in the death of 48 Americans LBJ ordered the bombing of the country to be increased. Many felt the Cong just saw us as right up there with the French who had ruled the country just a few years previous to this and invader and dictator but our government didn’t see it that way and LBJ also sent in 3,500 Marine in March, insisting that the fight was “to live in a world where every country can shape it’s own destiny.

By May the South had a new leader–the 10 th government in 20 months–and despite claims from our government that the country was stable and by July LBJ had increased the ground forces to 125,000 and raised the montly draft from 17,000 – 35,000.

Some other cat lookin’ over
His shoulder at me

When CBS’ Morley Safer covered US Marines burning down homes of Vietnam citizens Johnson accused him of being a Communist, but it turns out he was actually a Canadian.

On November the Battle of la Drang erupted between the US and North Vietnam forces…it was the first formal battle of the conflict–like Korea before it–it would never be a WAR and we declared it a win but many have questioned that.

What happened there, in the Ia Drang Valley, 17 miles from the nearest red-dirt road at Plei Me and 37 miles from the provincial capital of Pleiku,…Pentagon as they tallied the American losses… 234 men killed and more than 250 wounded…November 14-17, in two adjacent clearings dubbed Landing Zones X-ray and Albany. Another 71 Americans had been killed in earlier, smaller skirmishes that led up to the Ia Drang battles. http://www.historynet.com/ia-drang-where-battlefield-losses-convinced-ho-giap-and-mcnamara-the-u-s-could-never-win.htm

And he’s strange
Sure is strange

Not that the rest of the world was in much better shape: In Casablanca, Morocco students and workers against King Hassan II were attacked leaving 1,500 dead. He would soon go on to suspend the constitution and assume all powers with the support of his military.

Johnson couldn’t resist using troops either and deployed 42,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic in defense of ousted President Juan Bosh and to protect U.S. citizens in the country against a supposed Communist take over.

There was a coup in Algeria and off the coast of China Chiang Kai-Shek tried to reclaim China loosing 2 of his naval vessels and 200 of his troops in the effort.

You got to pick up every stitch
You got to pick up every stitch, yeah

In Indonesia by late 1965 there is fragmentation and a war against perceived communist results from conflicts–generals are killed and ethic Chinese who are all perceived to be Communist. By the end of the year the US ambassador claims that 400,000 have been killed, a figure not agreed with by other non-involved observers.

About the world the Muslim nations have joined the fray and vigilantes are murdering anyone they think are Communists including labor union members. In Paris an internationally known Moroccan leftist in exile Medhi Ben Burke disappears, never to be seen again.

And our own Communist neighbor allows 3,000 – 4,000 Cubans to be air lifted by the US and relocated in the USA.