Posted on 07/04/2019 9:50:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Singer's 'indecent liberties' with 14-year-old girl -- pardoned by Jimmy Carter -- get him nixed from folk music festival
An 81-year-old member of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary has been disinvited from a music festival to be held in upstate New York this fall over his 1970 jail sentence for taking “indecent liberties” with a 14-year-old girl, the festival board announced Tuesday.
Peter Yarrow -- whose offense was later pardoned by former President Jimmy Carter -- was removed from the lineup at the Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival. The board announced its decision Tuesday, citing negative reactions on social media to Yarrow's inclusion. The singer was to perform Sept. 8.
"When booking this artist we were not aware of news stories about an incident involving Yarrow in 1970," Colorscape's board president Melissa DeCordova told the Press & Sun-Bulletin, a newspaper based in Binghamton, N.Y.
"When booking this artist we were not aware of news stories about an incident involving Yarrow in 1970."
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yep -was in the news a few days ago actually- The girl was thrilled to get to go on stage with madonna- and modanna pulled the girl’s shirt down exposing her breast- people were outraged, but the mother and girl didn’t care- they only cared that the daughter got to be onstage- sick mother-
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1962 recording released in January 1963. Lipton wrote a poem in 1959; Yarrow found it and wrote the lyrics based on the poem."But either way it is still a question of the meaning of those words - not to me, you, any other listener or even Leonard Lipton - but to a convicted pedophile.
When a convicted pedophile chooses to perform and/or write a children song, some may have a kumbaya moment - but I rather call the pervert out to answer for it. (And yes, even based on just the suspicion of masking a depraved meaning by the use of innuendo.)
He was a merchant of temptation. To string the liberals along, he took it just a few steps farther than they did and then circled back, enticing them to come closer.
Guess it was “Rape Rape”
Good thing I don’t play folk music!
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