rugrunner
you are right.
the commander who sent a bunch of young guardsman out to face a peaceful demonstration on a college campus with loaded weapons made the right decision.
of course police trained to handle an unruly crowd keep their weapons holstered, but they should start shooting into the crowd.
i believe one of the girls that was murdered was a long way off on her way to class and that commie pinko bitch, who was probably instigating the crowd from where she was, should have been blown away. fucken hippies.
that'll teach her and the rest of those peacenik, unamericans protesting the bombing of cambodia not to disagree with the president.
you've opened my eyes to the glory of being a true blue american and as the current administration said "if you aren't with me, your against me."
next time people gather out side a building where our glories leader is speechifying, to protest, lets blow their asses to kingdom come.
Kent State, May 4, 1970: America Kills Its Children
Twenty-five years ago this month, students came out on the Kent State campus and scores of others to protest the bombing of Cambodia-- a decision of President Nixon's that appeared to expand the Vietnam War. Some rocks were thrown, some windows were broken, and an attempt was made to burn the ROTC building. Governor James Rhodes sent in the National Guard.
The units that responded were ill-trained and came right from riot duty elsewhere; they hadn't had much sleep. The first day, there was some brutality; the Guard bayonetted two men, one a disabled veteran, who had cursed or yelled at them from cars. The following day, May 4th, the Guard, commanded with an amazing lack of military judgment, marched down a hill, to a field in the middle of angry demonstrators, then back up again. Seconds before they would have passed around the corner of a large building, and out of sight of the crowd, many of the Guardsmen wheeled and fired directly into the students, hitting thirteen, killing four of them, pulling the trigger over and over, for thirteen seconds. (Count out loud--one Mississippi, two Mississippi, to see how long this is.) Guardsmen--none of whom were later punished, civilly, administratively, or criminally--admitted firing at specific unarmed targets; one man shot a demonstrator who was giving him the finger. The closest student shot was fully sixty feet away; all but one were more than 100 feet away; all but two were more than 200 feet away. One of the dead was 255 feet away; the rest were 300 to 400 feet away. The most distant student shot was more than 700 feet from the Guardsmen.
