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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-08-09 12:45 AMOriginal messageI am not over Kent State. I hadn't really thought about it until I heard Democracy Now's broadcast this afternoon.Yes, it's 39 years on. And maybe I should move on.Still.A couple hundred malcontents making a joyful noise against their oppressors. Richard Nixon has a problem. He orders a hit.39 years later, there's still no justice.And I guess I can take comfort in the knowledge that when this kind of monstrosity happened to us, we organized, we had a student strike across the nation to commemorate this abomination, and it helped turn the tide against the war in Vietnam.Contrast this with the Reich Wing's big poutrage, the Waco case, wherein on the one-year anniversary, some nutball decided to blow up a federal building.Yes, I get that we are better than they are. Yes, I get that we won.What I don't get is the rage I still feel inside for those unavenged deaths.
In the thread that got my mole popped, some DUmmie went off on me about Kent State. Said that was all the reason he needed to hate the military. I don't think it was the same one.
Kent State was most unfortunate...that being said, when police and national guardsmen tell you to disperse, you disperse. You don'y burn buildings, you don't incite to riot, you don't make any uncertain moves......
Too bad Nixon didn't just order a few dozen bulldozers instead. It worked with Rachel Corrie.Cindie
...Or piss off people with loaded guns by bouncing rocks off the heads of most of them. They weren't there under Federal orders, Nixon had jack to to with it - that was just what the DUmmies and their ilk tell us is the "Well-regulated militia" to which we should cede all right to bear arms individually.
They are really obesessed with Kent State aren't they? First of all, it was their own doing.