If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. You’re going to meet some gentle people there, there’s a whole generation with a new explanation-1967 song by Scott McKenzie during US anti-war movement

Those demanding intolerance today came to prominence selling the opposite, peace, love, and understanding. Even in 2003, Hillary said disagreeing with government was patriotic and our right as Americans.

Released in 1967, “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” unofficial anthem of the counterculture and anti-war movement of the 1960s, was written by John Phillips, leader of 1960s group The Mamas and the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie.

Above, 11/15/1969, 500,000 in Washington, DC as part of national movement to end US involvement in Vietnam war. npr

Lyrics, “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)”

“If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco
You’re gonna meet some gentle people there

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For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

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All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion

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There’s a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion
People in motion

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For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

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If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.”

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Above, “On March 25, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. led 2,000 anti-war marchers through Chicago in protest of the Vietnam war,” image source, copyright Jo Freeman

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Added: “The Vietnam anti-war movement was one of the most pervasive displays of opposition to the government policy in modern times. Protests raged all over the country. San Francisco, New York, Oakland, and Berkeley were all demonstration hubs, especially during the height of the war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But Washington, D.C. remained one of the most visible stages for this mass dissent of the government’s decisions regarding the war.”

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“Anti-War Protests of the 1960s-70s,” whitehousehistory.org

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“The Mayday Protest in 1971 is a prime example of how citizens used the nation’s capital as the ground on which to stage their disapproval. Activists planned to shut down the city completely, handicapping the government and making it impossible for it to function. Protesters camped out in masses on the edges of downtown Washington on May 2, 1971. They chose this place so they would be able to spread out along the entrances to the city as quickly as possible the next day. Traffic was stopped, at least for a few hours, and although it angered some commuters, no one could disregard the strength of the movement. CIA director Richard Helms remarked that Mayday was “one of the things that was putting increasing pressure on the [Nixon] administration to try and find some way to get out of the war.” 

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Added: Hillary in 2003 said disagreeing with the government was “patriotic:”

“I Am Sick And Tired-Hillary Clinton“

From You Tube page: “In 2003, Hillary Clinton screeched, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

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Comment by blog editor: My anti-war contribution consisted of including my name, Sue Mullen, on a banner, below, we attached to our sorority house at Syracuse University in fall 1969. Part of the sorority’s name, “Alpha Chi Omega” is seen to the left of the banner.

 

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