\ What makes you think that the national guard were not prepared??? They behaved rationally and effectively and put a stop to leftist campus violence at Kent State and elsewhere by making the pukes realize that they and the governments of the US and of Ohio were deadly serious and it was time for the little leftwing revolutionary romantics to stifle themselves and their cause or face the music physically. The guard helped them to translate their puffed up revolutionary rhetoric into fatal reality. Catholic martyrs took satisfaction in their opportunity for martyrdom, likewise the Dietrich Bonhoeffers. Of course their respective causes were something and Someone worth dying for. There is a lot of buyer's remorse on the radical left among its "martyrs" because Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Kim Whazzisface (who led North Korea against the US sixty years ago), Kim Whazzisface's descendants, Ho Chi Minh and his political descendants are not so much worth dying for especially when you are an atheist and don't believe in an afterlife.
As to the dead punks and the collateral damage, you are wrong. Aggressively marching against the national guard is not a First Amendment right of any sort and neither is it constitutional. It is utterly amazing that anyone would have the gilt-edged nerve to call him/herself conservative while being a partisan of the Marxist-Leninist campus Cong of yesteryear. Many of the cc are now dead and a good thing too. Good riddance! Hopefully they repented first and hopefully you will too.
The fact is that leftist college punks and their agitators were killed revolting violently against our nation. The fact is that the government of Iran lacks moral legitimacy and deserves to be overthrown. If some Iranians die in the streets or in combat trying to make that happen, they are far more noble folk than the communist trash that threatened the guard at Kent State. Nixon wasn't much but he was infinitely superior to the mullahs.
Somehow our increasingly sissified upper middle class sees nothing as worthy of the deaths of their children regardless of the evil alternatives guaranteed by their non-actions or by their half vast "revolutionary" pretenses.
As far as the Constitution and First Amendment are concerned, buy a clue. You certainly don't have one. I graduated a top ten law school and practiced law for 25 years. You probably did neither. In the unlikely event that you think you did both, I will tell you that you would have to go a long way to grasp the meaning of the Constitution and First Amendment based on what you are posting here. You are simply enthusiastic in favoring the enemies of our nation and our civilization and our people cynically using alleged freedoms to deprive everyone else of those freedoms.
There is no moral equivalence between activist communist scum threatening the troops sent to control them in order to widen the spread of actual tyranny and genuinely oppressed Iranians battling the tyrannical mullahs to establish a foothold for freedom. It was another spineless spoiled guy named Jimmuh Cahtuh who created most of this middle East mess in the first place by destabilizing Iran. If Reza Pahlevi's son had succeeded him, Khomeini and Khameini would have been blood-soaked history in short order, making Iran a far more pleasant place for its citizens.
Do you whine about the martyrdom of St. Peter or St. Paul or so many others? If not, is it because they were Christians rather than communists??? Libertarianism is NOT conservatism.
No cigar, Willy!
Great post!