On Wed, 4 May 2005 17:44:19 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"NOYB" wrote in message
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"JimH" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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"JimH" wrote in message
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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?


Having been involved in riot control training, I can say that we did *not* have
rubber bullets for the M-14. Maybe they exist for the M-16 now, but I've not
heard of them.

Nor is the National Guard issued horses for riot control. Perhaps the police had
them, but if the police could have handled the problem, why were the Guard
called out?
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."