"Not that it matters, but I was -1.5 years old. Unless you were physically present, then we have exactly the same access to evidence."
Oh but it DOES matter. At 15 you still had the mind of a child seeing everything from a teenager's point of view. Mature adults viewing what happened at Kent State would form a much different opinion, due to their expanded vision of life :)
Why do you continue to argue about something you are so wrong on? There are none so blind as those that will not see...
This happened a year and 1/2 PRIOR to your birth. All you know, is what meager bits and pieces you've read about. I SAW IT HAPPEN, AS IT WAS HAPPENING; AS AN ADULT! And I knew, KNEW, long before David Horowitz finally "turned" and decided to tell the general populace the facts about those bad old days, who was behind ALL of the acts of violence and rioting, that the MSM pretended and still pretends wasn't so.
You keep talking about "NOTHING" happening. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU IMAGINE SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED? That the government was going to round up all of the damned, stinking American Commies running SDS, the Yippies and hippies and publishing RAMPARTS and THE EAST VILLIAGE OTHER, who were getting their orders and funds from the KGB and put them on trial?
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Frankly, it doesn't matter that you're in your 30s right now. You could always have availed yourself of reading matter which WOULD have made you better informed about those times; but you haven't! So, yes, it IS incumbent upon you, to actually listen to those who WERE alive at the time, have no reason, whatsoever, to lie about what actually happened, and are posting to this thread. Sadly, you appear to much prefer to spew LIBERAL propaganda and your own delusions.
A far better question to ask, than the one you repeatedly have...i.e. "WHAT REASON DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE TO COVER UP EVIDENCE THAT WOULD EXCULPATE THEMWHY IS IT THAT I ( you ) AM POSTING AN IRRATIONAL, IRRELEVANT QUESTION ABOUT SOMETHING I ( you ) KNOW ALMOST NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT?
The Federal government had nothing at all to do with any of this.
The police, in Ohio, couldn't handle the situation.
The Governor of OHIO called out the National Guard; as he should have.
Are you under the misapprehension that the president was the one who called out the Guard and then gave orders for them to shoot down anyone who moved on the Kent State campus?
You wanna talk about past history? Fine......LEARN SOME FIRST!
BTW, during the DRAFT RIOTS, in N.Y.C., during the Civil War, the police couldn't handle that and so, THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YOUR STATE CALLED OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD! It most assuredly was NOT President Lincoln!
Though I was not "physically present", at Kent State, this whole mess WAS on T.V. and I witnessed it!
Are you of the opinion that unless I was at ground zero or on one of the planes, on 9/11/01, that I have NO idea what transpired that fateful day?
Trust me, seeing something happen, LIVE, on T.V., is just about as "good" as being there and far and away, much better, than reading about it many years later!
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. : )