Posted on 12/05/2014 10:07:46 AM PST by PROCON
Governor Jay Nixon finally explained why he did not send the National Guard to Ferguson, Missouri. –We Didn’t want a Kent State situation.
On early Tuesday morning, November 25, 2014, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told FOX 2 anchors that he had repeatedly requested the National Guard… But his requests were ignored.
“I know I’ve been on the phone in contact with the County Executive’s Office. I know he has requested. I am requesting. I’ve requested the National Guard troops to come out from their command post to help restore order along the business district. We have not seen that… Those calls have gone unheeded at this point… We need to have the governor step up and give us the resources that he’s promised from the beginning. He said he would have a strong response. The resources necessary would be provided. They have not been provided so far.“
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Isn’t it also true that the Guardmen at Kent State fired a warning volley over the heads of protestors that struck innocent students away from the violence? If so a Kent State situation would have been avoided by firing only directly at looters:-)
It’s more than disdain of the military. The Left isn’t the Dem party of 30 years ago; they are totalitarian nut-jobs who lust for control.
It sure took him a long time for Nixon to come up with such a lame lie.
The real reason is that dictator 0bama told him not to call up the guard so that the Feds could get their provocateurs and arsonists in place.
The idea is to federalize and militarize the police for the planned race war. Then martial law will follow for the unstable regions.
That’s a tacit admission that government is not so much there to protect as to it is to clean-up after the fact, and that folks must protect themselves.
The girl on her knees was not even a student there.
So he calls up the National Guard but doesn’t employ them to protect the citizens. Some protection ay Nixon? Another demoRat boob strikes again.
In the aftermath of Kent State, a bullet hole was discovered in a house BEHIND the national guardsmen. That bullet would have been fired by a demonstrator. We know that some of the “demonstrators” in Ferguson were armed. He may have prevented a Guardsman’s death, not to mention the plethora of MSM stories about the guard being used for riot work.
I would resign from the Missouri National Guard & tell the governor thanks for nothing & to go bleep himself.
I say that as a former Guardsman who received regular civil disturbance training in the 1970’s.
Yep I am really confused.
So they didn’t want a Kent State. So that means you stand aside and allow a riot to happen??? Does this make sense to anyone else?
Come on Dilbert...it's called LIBERALISM...
What?!?
Soldiers are a blunt axe. Wrong training and methodology for riot control. Soldiers kill. That is all we train for. To train soldiers for anything else, ruins them.
Tin soldiers and Nixon not coming...
Nixon is lucky one or more persons did not get killed in the rioting and looting and arson that went on due to his Liberal actions.
Just keep diggin’ he’ll find Claire down there some place. Jay just removed all doubt that he is directed by Val-Jar.
Two of the four people killed at Kent State were not taking part in the anti-war demonstration but were in a parking lot some distance away which just happened to be in the line of fire.
actually, I remember when the late Philly Mayor, Frank Rizzo, refused to send in the National Guard for a riot in the 1960’s...he explained that shops can be rebuilt but dead people cannot. And that, while the cops were used to being spat at and having things thrown at them, soldiers were not.
Which is why only one person was killed in that riot.
Frank Rizzo was about as “law and order” as they come.
Same thing here. I think that some people would have loved a panicky National Guard soldier decide to shoot rioters, because they aim to start a race war. So the governor here made a good choice.
IIRC, the woman was screaming "They're using real bullets!", and I thought at the time, "Well, DUH! You act like a revolutionary and then complain when you are treated like one."
I worked at Camp Pendleton as a civilian programmer in the '70s and happened to talk with one of the Marine EOD guys. He said they were sent to Kent State in the aftermath to check things out. (This was the time of the Weathermen, who were carefully filling light bulbs with black powder and re-seating them in the sockets in various businesses.) He said they found 78 rpm discs with double-edged razor blades taped to the edges where the NG had stood and figured the "innocent" students were skimming them like Frisbees at the troops.
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