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- New light shed on Kent State killings--Shots fired at Guard, declassified files indicate [05/03/2010]
- 1970 tape recording of Kent State shootings reveals sound of pistol shots [10/09/2010]
Posted on 05/04/2006 6:42:00 PM PDT by motorcity70
I don't really care whether there was a sniper, or bricks or whatever on the day it happened. Once the Guard was called up and had been pelted repeatedly, I wouldn't have blamed them if they had a hair trigger for just looking at them cross eyed.
This sort of behavior on campus or on the street in our cities should not be allowed period. The blame lies in not shutting this crap down the first minute it started.
Besides that, the Guard should not be called out to handle violent situations, unless the authorities want someone killed. They are soldiers, and their business is killing, and we want them to be good at it, so that our guys come home alive and some other SOB dies for their country.
I feel the same way about Vietnam and The war in the Iraq. Don't send our men over there and tie their hands. Let loose the hounds of war, and let them win or keep them home and forget about war.
Sheer stupidity both on the part of the students and the people in charge caused those deaths. Not the Guards fault. They shouldn't have been there in the first place, if they weren't supposed to kill anyone.
Now that's JMHO. You are equally entitled to yours.
End of story. End of discussion.
have = have been
I was in my 20’s when that happened. I thought every thug should have been shot and I still do. That should be done to every protester especially those who burn, rob, etc. The ones today know nothing will be done to them so that makes them act worse. I could add more but this is probably enough for you to get my ideas. : )
Wikipedia is probably farther left than those we know in the lamestream media. Of course they write history the way they want you to read it.
“Sheer stupidity both on the part of the students and the people in charge caused those deaths. Not the Guards fault. They [the Guard] shouldn’t have been there in the first place, if they weren’t supposed to kill anyone.”
Well, we are getting away from Stang’s article. But to reply:
National Guardsmen are sent out to all sorts of emergency situations. They are trained to maintain discipline and are only supposed to kill as a last resort in self defense.
They were sent to the town of Kent and Kent State University to keep order. It was absolutely not necessary to kill on the day of May 4, 1970. The students had already dispersed and those who were shot were typically hundreds of feet away. The Guard should have at least been convicted of manslaughter.
At least a civil suit was successful, when $675,000 was awarded to the surviving victims and the victims families in January 1979.
Now it’s end of discussion.
You are wrong. I am right. End of story.LOL
Um, no it's not. Guardsmen fired downrange without regard to innocent people who were in the line of fire.
That was grossly negligent, and led to several deaths.
When guardsmens' bullets killed innocent civilians, people who weren't being targeted, then that, clearly and unambiguously, was acting "wrongly".
They were there. They also spent time trying to recruit high school students in the area. My father was a H.S. teacher and kept tabs on them before most Americans knew they existed.
Some of my friends had older siblings at KSU that were active in SDS. To this day some of them STILL travel to KSU on the anniversary to commemorate that day. Old commie hippies reliving their glory days.
Absolutely.
Even then-Attorney General John Mitchell, hardly a liberal, said after the federal investigation that the shooting was “unneccessary, unwarranted and inexcusable.”
SO, here we are, another May dawns and the cavalcade of remembering Kent State is again in the news. Never forget it was the SDS that killed these young students and not the Guardsmen who did their duty.
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