KENT, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed college students during a war protest at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Four students were killed, and nine others were injured. Not all of those hurt or killed were involved in the demonstration, which opposed the U.S. bombing of neutral Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
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Horse shit.
ReplyDeleteCambodia was about as neutral as Schiff during the impeachment farce.
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Cambodia was not neutral. Officially they said they were but they supported North Vietnam. Pretty much like Pakistan supports the Taliban.
ReplyDeleteEvery one of those guardsmen should have been put in front of a firing squad.
ReplyDeleteThe guardsmen all walked in the criminal trial. The civil trial was settled for several hundred thousand dollars paid by the state of Ohio and the defendants had to say they regretted the shootings. Cheap at twice the price.
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...stay away from crowds. Especially when unarmed and confronting armed aggressors in Army green.
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Remember this when they let the National Guard start enforcing their quarantine orders.
ReplyDeleteThat so-called barn with the tractors was the ROTC building. While it was burning to the ground with "students" cheering while firemen were inside, my brother being one, they were cutting the water hoses putting the firemen in danger of being burned alive while they looked for possible people inside. They weren't the little boys and girls the media portrays. Order had to be restored.
ReplyDeleteAnd who fired the shots that the Guardsmen responded to?
DeleteThere's lots of evidence showing that the protest leaders had expected a reaction by the Guardsmen. And lots of damage, gunshots, firebombing etc before the Guard ever got there.
It wasn't a case of 'Oh, hippies, send in the Guard.' It was 3-4 days of rioting, destruction, fights, normal people getting jumped and beat up, cops being assaulted, cars tipped over, and then the ROTC building fire and THEN and only then was the Guard called in.
Fuck. Fucking Guard should have shot more. It is a wonder that only 4 died. Which shows you the Guard were shooting to scare, rather than shooting to kill. Seriously.
Wanna talk about Waco?
DeleteThere was A LOT more to the shootings than most people know. I'm not saying it was justified, but it was understandable.
ReplyDeleteThose kids were being entitled, evil jerk offs trying to inflict serious harm. Plus, you don't throw rocks at people with guns!
Love the first line of the file pic In this May 4, 1970 file photo, Ohio National Guard soldiers move in on war protestors at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
ReplyDeleteMore kill-crazy Vietnam vets, right?
If you look at the actual tape of the shooting, one round goes off, then another, then the line lets loose. Those National Guardsmen were the ones who were scared. They wanted to be anywhere else, but they were being showered with bricks and rocks.
Read a book by a couple of LRRPs who said, when the news got to the troops in 'Nam, guys went around with 4 fingers raised on one hand, closed fist on the other. 4 - 0, there was little sympathy for the campus commandos in Charlie Company, 75th Infantry.
A lefty (can't remember if he was a reporter or a professor) had a tape recording that he sat on for 30 years, that proved that the "innocent unarmed" students had a gun and started shooting at the guardsmen first. Truth finally came out, but decades after the lies were used for daily lefty propaganda.
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