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To the 4 students killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970, may you
continue to rest in peace.

http://kent.state.tripod.com/

Peace? If they were acting peacefully, they wouldn't have been shot.
How many students who stayed in their rooms studying were shot that
day? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?



Yeah sure.....unarmed students deserved to be shot dead.

Where the hell is your head NOYB?

Two days before the shootings, the demonstrators burned down the ROTC
building, and then pelted the cops and firefighters with rocks, and
slashed the firehoses with knives.

Biker groups showed up, store windows were smashed, and shops were
looted. There was talk about "revolutionaries" showing up to destroy the
campus and city and tip off a violent political revolution in the US.


The Governor warned against the Demonstration on May 4th, yet they held
it anyhow. When the crowd was ordered to disperse, they ignored the
demand. Tear gas was used to disperse the crowd, but it was only thrown
back at the Guardsmen. A crowd of 1000 students pursued a retreating
group of 70 armed Guardsmen...and the Guardsmen opened fire.

WTF did they think would happen when they started pursuing *armed*
Guardsmen with rocks, tear gas canisters, and other projectiles?

It's sad that 3 of the 4 who were killed appear to have been "observers",
rather than participants. But the blood of those three is on the hands
of the 1000's of demonstrators who incited the defensive response from
the Guardsmen.



Someone (Gov. Rhodes?) decided to allow the troops to use real bullets.
What a brilliant idea.....NOT!

No one deserved to be shot. No one deserved to be killed.

One can control a crowd with other means......rubber bullets, horses,
water cannons. All those options were available.

You also have to understand the sentiment about the war at that stage in
time, especially amongst college students.

Did you live through this experience NOYB....how old were you in 1970?


By horses I of course mean troops riding horses to control crowds. Very
popular and effective by the New Orleans police during the Mardi Gras
season. You don't screw with an animal weighing 5 times more than you. ;-)