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Kent State, The True Story
American Opinion ^
| June, 1974
| Alan Stang
Posted on 05/04/2006 6:42:00 PM PDT by motorcity70
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It's a cliche, and a lie, that the National Guardsmen acted wrongly at Kent State. It's a testiment to their maturity and fortitude that they restrained themselves so well in the face of violence. On this day, the anniversary of their heroism, and also the tragedy that befell those manipulated by the Communist leaning SDS, let the TRUTH be read!
To: motorcity70
Great post.
Kent State was treated to two appearances by Mark Rudd, the S.D.S. Ieader
Mark Rudd was a Columbia undergrad. When I went to Columbia I spend a lot of time in the archives of the Columbia Daily Spectator going over microfiche of old papers. What I learned, and wrote about, was that Rudd was a coward. He would agitate for protests and the taking over of buildings, but whenever the cops showed up he let his dumb followers get arrested while he always jumped out the back window, ran away, etc.
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posted on
05/04/2006 6:47:07 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: motorcity70
I graduated college in 1970 (note my username). I flew helicopters in Vietnam. Sorry to sound like sKerry. I regret people were killed at Kent State that spring.
After Vietnam, I served ten years in the National Guard with ordinary likeable citizens.
Those deaths did not have to happen. Sinister forces made it so. If the instigators still live, pox on them.
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posted on
05/04/2006 6:51:26 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
To: motorcity70
I know the "straight skinny" on this stuff, too. I went to college, undergrad, from 66 to 70, the SDS was fomenting trouble on nearly every campus in the country. They were always after my ex-husband and I to join, but I didn't want any part of their "agenda". I felt even then, in my perfect "salad" state, that there was something very dangerous in their message. Thank God.
This was at Oklahoma University, too--probably one of the most conservative universities in the country at that time.
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:01:41 PM PDT
by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
To: motorcity70
God Bless all of our National Guardsmen.
To: Freee-dame
Ditto that times infinity!
To: motorcity70
Wikipedia has this on the SDS:
"The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a student activist movement in the United States founded in 1959. As part of the New Left movement in the United States, the organization developed rapidly in the mid-1960s, before dissolving for decades in 1969 until its revival in 2003."
Which implies they didn't get involved in Kent State.
Anyone know more?
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:10:17 PM PDT
by
HighWheeler
(The liberal dinosaurs bellow defiantly while sinking deeper into the swamp.......)
To: motorcity70
"Communist leaning? Many of the SDS "leaders", as most of the hippie and Yippie "leaders" were, were RED DIAPER BABIES and card carrying Commies!
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:12:16 PM PDT
by
nopardons
To: motorcity70
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:14:15 PM PDT
by
true_blue_texican
(grateful texan! slightly wasted, tonight)
To: elcid1970
I flew helicopters in Vietnam....After Vietnam, I served ten years in the National Guard with ordinary likeable citizens.
Thank you for your service to our country.
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:16:12 PM PDT
by
HighWheeler
(The liberal dinosaurs bellow defiantly while sinking deeper into the swamp.......)
To: HighWheeler
Bill Bennett was actually very very close to joining SDS in the 60's. But his brother persuaded him not too. As an aside, Bill Bennett once dated Janis Joplin.
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:16:19 PM PDT
by
buckeyesrule
(It just isn't the same without Kellie!!!!)
To: nopardons
Okay, you have me there. They were as red as red can be.
To: HighWheeler
And everyone knows, Wikipedia is the most accurate source of info out there....sorry for the sarcasm, but the SDS was still going strong well into the 1970s.
To: Freee-dame
"God Bless all of our National Guardsmen."
I'm curious what you think of the Oklahoma NG going door to door in New Orleans confiscating citizen's firearms.
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:19:25 PM PDT
by
VRing
(Nine out the ten voices in my head told me to stay home and clean my rifle today.)
To: HighWheeler
Thank you for your heartwarming reply. I am grateful to G-d that I am still able to do so. But, please, give greater thanks to our brave young soldiers who risk far more than that which is already behind me.
To: buckeyesrule
Bill Bennett dated Janis Joplin? YIKES!
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:22:26 PM PDT
by
Hildy
(Producing a penny now costs the government more than 1.4 cents)
To: motorcity70
The move was a typically phony Nixon operation, of course, because at the same time his Administration was sending more and more war material to Soviet Russia, which in turn supplied the Vietcong with most of their equipmenta practice which candidate Nixon had denounced in 1968.
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:22:28 PM PDT
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: VRing
They're following orders....the problem there are spineless politicos that would order such an unconstitutional thing. Besides, it's Nagin's PD doing that not the National Guard.
To: motorcity70
"Besides, it's Nagin's PD doing that not the National Guard."
Nope. OK NG. Just following orders, huh? Simple as that?
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:24:45 PM PDT
by
VRing
(Nine out the ten voices in my head told me to stay home and clean my rifle today.)
To: motorcity70
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posted on
05/04/2006 7:25:05 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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