The Wound to Our Social Order Is Deep and Pervasive

American Thinker.com ^ | June 11, 2020 | E. Jeffrey Ludwig

[Kaslin]

Fifty years plus one month ago, a student protest against the Vietnam War took place on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. The National Guard had been sent at the request of the mayor of Kent. They fired on the protesting students, and four were killed and nine wounded. In April, President Nixon had widened the Vietnam War to include Cambodia because the Vietcong were using trails in Cambodia as supply lines. This widening of the war was the immediate cause of the protest. The mayor of Kent and other observers said the students were becoming violent and that police cars were hit with bottles, traffic was stopped, and bonfires were being lit in the streets. The deaths of the youths shocked the country, but this writer recalls that wild campus demonstrations against the Vietnam War that were common at that time subsided after that event. No one was sent to jail for those shootings.

The Kent State student demonstration took place less than two years after another conflagration at the Democratic National Convention of 1968. The accused instigators of the Democratic Convention riots, the Chicago Eight — Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale — would be put on trial for inciting to riot, traveling across state lines to incite to riot, and conspiracy to incite riot. The trial degenerated into a theater of the absurd, with Bobby Seale sent off to jail for contempt of court by Judge Julius Hoffman. The remaining seven were convicted of inciting to riot but not of conspiracy. Abbie Hoffman mocked the judge relentlessly even calling him "Julie." Eventually, on appeal, all convictions were reversed. The riots at the Democratic Convention were real enough,

[The Toll]

Well, at least something good happened in the 60’s.

[ealgeone]

Abbie Hoffman mocked the judge relentlessly even calling him "Julie." Eventually, on appeal, all convictions were reversed. The riots at the Democratic Convention were real enough,

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Antifa learned from this.

[MRBIGMUTTS]

Those students at Kent State were all over that city destroying and stealing from the locals. If the Guardsmen hadnt shot them the citizens were ready to.

If the black folk care so much about blacks being being gunned down why arent the protesting in Chicago after the worse weekend for shootings in 60 years?

Go protest in front of a gang bangers lair and see if they dont shoot at you.

Once you get your worse city in order then the white folks will begin to take you more seriously and really work with you to end police brutality.

Once the riots started you lost all momentum to your movement and the support of many white folks.

Taking orders/$$$$$ from ANTIFA to riot/protest is no different than being back in slavery.

Get your own house in order and the rest will take care of itself.

[knarf]

A lot of good and dynamic statements here on this thread.

[IAGeezer912]

I distinctly remember Kent State. I was a sophomore at Ia State Univ. The day after Kent State I heard a loud explosion. Someone had planted a bomb in the window well of the Ames police department and killed a prisoner in a basement jail cell. The Des Moines paper then had a picture on the front page of a Univ of Ia student standing in front of a burning police car with his fist raised. That guy was a good friend of mine from high school.

[poinq]

Kent State was started by anarchists who swarmed a little college town. They broke store windows, and looted them. They burned down the gym at the local college. And the next day when the national guard came out the protesters danced and abused the national guard, a bunch of weekend soldiers trying to stay out of the war themselves. The guard fired over the heads of the professional rioters, and their bullets hit actual students two football fields away in the head and neck. While no people were following laws that day, bullets were. The bullets were following the laws of gravity. When the students were shot, protesters did not allow the ambulances to come and try to save them. So they just bled out. The protesters threw rocks at the ambulances like they had thrown rocks at the fire department the night before.

Neil Young likes to simplify this event as a protest against Nixon. Nixon had nothing to do with it. But the history books write a story different than the news papers of the time. You really only get the facts when you read the local papers during the week. And the most telling piece of evidence is the map, that shows the people who were shot two hundred yards from those who fired the guns. When the news media came, the rioters slunk away to riot somewhere else, their jobs were done.

[rbg81]

The deaths of the youths shocked the country, but this writer recalls that wild campus demonstrations against the Vietnam War that were common at that time subsided after that event. No one was sent to jail for those shootings.

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That is very true. In the summer of 1970, many parents had stern conversations to their hippee wanna-be kids. Basically they told them to cut the sh!t out. And their kids largely listened.