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Kent State remembers the 4th of May
By Eric Verlo
NOT MY TRIBE - 5/03/2008 1:52PM MDT - 22 Comments
Did you think lone hooligans waving the Anarchist flag under the noses of police was a new thing?
On May 4, 1970, after several days of student protests at Kent State University, the Ohio National guard opened fire on the students, killing four and wounding nine others. Sparking a wave of campus revolts proclaiming “They can’t kill us all.” The Kent State students weren’t protesting the Vietnam War, but the just begun US invasion into Cambodia. Is this going to sound familiar? MAY 4 is commemorated every year.
Posted: May 3rd, 2008 under Activism.
Comments: 22
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Comment from dumbass
Time: May 6, 2008, 10:20 pm
Read the account. A shouted order was given and two dozen soldiers turned in unison and fired.
The Kent State students were protesting Nixon’s April 30 announcement of the US attack on Cambodia.
The four protesters shot, and nine wounded, were students, not “something else.”
Comment from Richard
Time: September 2, 2008, 2:11 pm
over 300 shots fired! Only 4 protesters killed, 9 wounded. Piss poor shooting.
Comment from The 13th
Time: September 2, 2008, 3:14 pm
Pissant shooting mouths oft forget that the Vietnam and Cambodia “excursions” were not nearly as censored for the homeland’s comfort as wars prior or since - therein creating reaction beyond Kent State and including your dear old Aunt Martha. Gads Richard, where were you??
Forget the soldiers. Forget the carnage. Forget the history.
Enjoy your feelgood wars forever. Hooray for ignorance!
Next up for your reading amusement: Surgery with plastic spoons.
Comment from Richard
Time: September 3, 2008, 11:34 am
I just love getting a liberal goat.
Comment from tony logan
Time: September 3, 2008, 11:37 am
Richard, would that be one of those fainting goats?
Comment from Jonah
Time: September 4, 2008, 7:38 am
The Guard had set out to Murder Americans.
The excuse they use now is that they simply forgot to unload their machine guns (that’s what an M16 is, by the way) after being used by the Corporate Bosses to assist in breaking a Union Job Action earlier in the day.
They were perfectly willing to kill or at least threaten to kill Americans for their exercise of Freedom to bargain collectively for a just payment for their product– Their Labor.
Instead they wound up Murdering 4 students.
Much like your pig asshole buddies, Richard, are doing now in Minnea-Police-State.
I heard a couple of the Kent State MURDERERS committed Suicide in remorse. Just years later and on separate Anniversaries of the MURDERS.
Good Riddance.
They should have had the balls to refuse to fire on their Fellow Americans in the first GodDamned place.
Pigs ought to realize, too, that every act of brutality or Cold Blooded Cowardly Murder they commit radicalizes their surviving Victims. Like those Torture Victims who were released from Abu Ghraib, Khandahar, Gitmo, and then got a gun and went hunting Pigs.
Or the ones who in separate incidents blew Jensen and Jordan away.
That, Richard, is the normal HUMAN response to your government or any other using Shock and Awe TERRORISM… Like the Kent State Massacre.
Like your candidates Terror Bombing of a nation which had never declared war on the U.S. and the U.S. had never declared war on them.
and extending that Terror Campaign into Laos and Cambodia.
General George up at the top of the comments or McCain might be proud of doing what they did, but so were the Waffen Schutzstaffel and so were the TotenKopf Schutzstaffel, (the ones who ran the Death Camps)
The Terrorist Pricks who run Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are proud of their torture techniques as well.
And some of the Kent State Murderers are proud of their Terrorist actions as well.
Comment from Richard
Time: September 5, 2008, 12:40 pm
And thanks for your comment Mr B. Hussein Obama
Comment from tony logan
Time: September 5, 2008, 1:45 pm
Richard, do you hate Arab names or Arabs themselves?
Comment from Major George Hutton
Time: May 6, 2008, 9:46 am
Yo Eric,
Couple points you missed. This Guard was mostly untrained young folks and believed they were under fire. True, they should have never just fired away. As an professional soldier, I have to say that was wrong.
Second point these students were really protesting the just Vietnam war but not because it was just or unjust, Eric, the main point of all this was the draft. These young men(?) did not want to be drafted. As to days example of no draft most young people care less about the current wars, just or otherwise. Put the “draft” into todays wars and bong-bong these student heros would be out.
As for the trip to Cambodia, I was there. It failed due to comminist within the South Viet-nam military. The Commie HQ was warned & ran away. Just wanted to bring you up to date with facts. Oh by the way this picture of this young woman by the person down was NOT a student but something else.
Lets hope such as this never happens again. That is why the “vote” is so important. There is a legal way of doing things, agree?
thanks.
George