If I don't have a fairly extensive file, it would surprise the hell out of me. Not that I am or was a particular danger to the country. I do favor overthrowing the government (such as the current one), but by elections; violence reserved for really extreme situations, and although some might disagree, I really don't think we're there yet.

But during the paranoid (a Red under every bed) 1950s, I'm pretty sure I got onto the books, not because of anything I did, but because of people I happened to knew and places I happened to be. And because I was a "folk singer."

Don Firth