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To: BlackElk

There were four dead. Two of those four, which I mentioned, were not in the Mob. They were walking to class. One of those two one was an ROTC member who was planning on entering the Military.


83 posted on 05/06/2008 7:09:45 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Each and every person shot would not have been shot but for the actions of the criminals in the mob who were assaulting the guard. IF every person shot was totally innocent (which even you are not arguing since you say that two killed were not in the mob), the criminal mob was the proximate cause of the deaths and other shootings.

Two dead were walking to class???? Were they interviewed after their death? Did their mommies say so? Was this from a press release of the campus Ho Chi Minh Admiration Society? Even if true, they died because pampered Muffy and Skipper leftist windtunnels rioted and were assaulting guardsmen.

As to military credentials, there are several groups of former generals and admirals who whine in favor of our nation's enemies and against the use of the military in every war. They should be stripped of ranks and pensions but our system does not allow for that. They should not be confused with patriots. Nor should bomber pilots like McGovern who had no problem with the deaths and maiming of European civilians in nazi occupied territories that he bombed but was caterwauling on the floor of the Senate about "this chamber stands knee deep in blood" in relation to our actually fighting the communists (his ideological soulmates) in Vietnam.

One was in ROTC and planning on entering the military. The cynical among us would reply that ROTC was a way of getting an educational subsidy and of avoiding the still extant draft (maybe the war would end by the time he graduated?) ROTC students were OBLIGATED to military service at some point so that "planning" is not the right word. Analogy: Mickey Jones was enrolled at West Point and "planning" on military service after graduation. Translation: Mickey Jones had achieved an appointment to West Point. After 4 years of study and achievement of an engineering degree, while receiving military pay and having no tuition to pay, the Army would require Mickey to serve several years on active duty.

90 posted on 05/07/2008 10:27:03 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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