Not so. I followed the news at the time very closely and I read the book on the Kent State deaths some ten years ago. I stand by my interpretation of the events.
Bernie is George McGovern
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Not so. I followed the news at the time very closely and I read the book on the Kent State deaths some ten years ago. I stand by my interpretation of the events.
If Bernie loses, sure, bad for the down-ticket races, but if he wins, it would be good for them: presidential winners always have coattails. Look at the security Trump brought in.
We ARE remembering that Bernie is a populist, right? Just a populist for a different population than ours. But still a populist who brings out voters, by definition.
Okay, Bernie makes me nervous. I guess you can tell that.
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Mrs. Clinton would go for it , too, you know.
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Bernie won't even be the nominee
Sure, I was serious --- I've thought she would jump in for months. It's just too weird out there; I bet the party hacks would support it.
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Weren't there four shot by terrified national guardsmen. Not enough if I remember. It should have been 20 or 50 even better.
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Where was this riot you are speaking of?
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That's the job of a propagandist
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Armed cowards who could have backed off from a couple of stone throwers mixed with normal passing students. They viciously fired into a mostly uninvolved crowd. They should have at least gone to prison, or, better yet, front lines in Vietnam for the duration of the war.
Yup. Unruly demonstration, large crowd, National Guard activated: 4 Students killed.
Day 1: 500 students demonstrated. They moved from the University to the Town. Trouble exploded in town around midnight, when people left a bar and began throwing beer bottles at police cars and breaking windows in downtown storefronts. In the process they broke a bank window, setting off an alarm. The news spread quickly and it resulted in several bars closing early to avoid trouble. Before long, more people had joined the vandalism.
By the time police arrived, a crowd of 120 had already gathered. Some people from the crowd lit a small bonfire in the street. Members of the crowd began to throw beer bottles at the police, and then started yelling obscenities at them. The entire Kent police force was called to duty as well as officers from the county and surrounding communities. Kent Mayor LeRoy Satrom declared a state of emergency, called the office of Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes to seek assistance, and ordered all of the bars closed. The decision to close the bars early increased the size of the angry crowd. Police eventually succeeded in using tear gas to disperse the crowd from downtown, forcing them to move several blocks back to the campus.
Day 2: City officials and downtown businesses received threats, and rumors proliferated that radical revolutionaries were in Kent to destroy the city and university. Several merchants reported they were told that if they did not display anti-war slogans, their businesses would be burned down. Kent's police chief told the mayor that according to a reliable informant, the ROTC building, the local army recruiting station, and post office had been targeted for destruction that night. There were rumors of students with caches of arms, plots to spike the local water supply with LSD, of students building tunnels for the purpose of blowing up the town's main store. Mayor Satrom met with Kent city officials and a representative of the Ohio Army National Guard. Following the meeting, Satrom made the decision to call Governor Rhodes and request that the National Guard be sent to Kent, a request that was granted. Because of the rumors and threats, Satrom believed that local officials would not be able to handle future disturbances.
The National Guard arrived in town that evening until around 10 p.m. By this time, a large demonstration was underway on the campus, and the campus Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) building was burning. The arsonists were never apprehended. President's Commission on Campus Unrest: Railroad flares, a machete, and ice picks are not customarily carried to peaceful rallies.
Kent firemen and police officers were struck by rocks and other objects while attempting to extinguish the blaze. Several fire engine companies had to be called because protesters carried the fire hose into the Commons and slashed it. The National Guard made numerous arrests, mostly for curfew violations, and used tear gas; one student was slightly wounded with a bayonet.
Day 3: They saw the most vicious form of campus-oriented violence yet perpetrated by dissident groups. Burning and destroying, throwing rocks at police and at the National Guard and the Highway Patrol. They gave the appearance of a strong, well-trained, militant, revolutionary group.
During the day, some students came to downtown Kent to help with cleanup efforts after the rioting, actions which were met with mixed reactions from local businessmen. Mayor Satrom, under pressure from frightened citizens, ordered a curfew until further notice.
Around 8 p.m., another protest was held on the campus Commons. By 8:45 p.m., the Guardsmen used tear gas to disperse the crowd, and the students reassembled at the intersection of Lincoln and Main, holding a sit-in with the hopes of gaining a meeting with Mayor Satrom and University President Robert White. At 11:00 p.m., the Guard announced that a curfew had gone into effect and began forcing the students back to their dorms. A few students were bayoneted by Guardsmen.
Day 4: Despite clearly communicated orders to cease the lawless protests, 2,000 people gathered on the university's Commons, near Taylor Hall. The first protester began to speak.
Companies A and C, 1/145th Infantry and Troop G of the 2/107th Armored Cavalry, Ohio National Guard (ARNG), the units on the campus grounds, attempted to disperse the students. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that authorities did indeed have the right to disperse the crowd.
The dispersal process began late in the morning with campus patrolman Harold Rice riding in a National Guard Jeep, approaching the students to read an order to disperse or face arrest. The protesters responded by throwing rocks, striking one campus patrolman and forcing the Jeep to retreat.
Just before noon, the Guard returned and again ordered the crowd to disperse. When most of the crowd refused, the Guard used tear gas. Because of wind, the tear gas had little effect in dispersing the crowd, and some launched a second volley of rocks toward the Guard's line and chanted "Pigs off campus!" The students lobbed the tear gas canisters back at the National Guardsmen, who wore gas masks.
When it became clear that the crowd was not going to disperse, a group of 77 National Guard troops from A Company and Troop G, with bayonets fixed on their M1 Garand rifles, began to advance upon the hundreds of protesters. As the guardsmen advanced, the protesters retreated up and over Blanket Hill, heading out of the Commons area. Once over the hill, the students, in a loose group, moved northeast along the front of Taylor Hall, with some continuing toward a parking lot in front of Prentice Hall (slightly northeast of and perpendicular to Taylor Hall). The guardsmen pursued the protesters over the hill, but rather than veering left as the protesters had, they continued straight, heading toward an athletic practice field enclosed by a chain link fence. Here they remained for about 10 minutes, unsure of how to get out of the area short of retracing their path. During this time, the bulk of the students congregated to the left and front of the guardsmen, approximately 150 to 225 ft (46 to 69 m) away, on the veranda of Taylor Hall. Others were scattered between Taylor Hall and the Prentice Hall parking lot, while still others were standing in the parking lot, or dispersing through the lot as they had been previously ordered.
While on the practice field, the guardsmen generally faced the parking lot, which was about 100 yards (91 m) away. At one point, some of them knelt and aimed their weapons toward the parking lot, then stood up again. At one point the guardsmen formed a loose huddle and appeared to be talking to one another. They had cleared the protesters from the Commons area, and many students had left, but some stayed and were still angrily confronting the soldiers, some throwing rocks and tear gas canisters. About 10 minutes later, the guardsmen began to retrace their steps back up the hill toward the Commons area. Some of the students on the Taylor Hall veranda began to move slowly toward the soldiers as they passed over the top of the hill and headed back into the Commons.
During their climb back to Blanket Hill, several guardsmen stopped and half-turned to keep their eyes on the students in the Prentice Hall parking lot. At 12:24 p.m., a sergeant named Myron Pryor turned and began firing at the crowd of students with his .45 pistol. A number of guardsmen nearest the students also turned and fired their rifles at the students. In all, at least 29 of the 77 guardsmen claimed to have fired their weapons, using an estimate of 67 rounds of ammunition. The shooting was determined to have lasted only 13 seconds.
Photo taken from the perspective of where the Ohio National Guard soldiers stood when they opened fire on the students
The adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard told reporters that a sniper had fired on the guardsmen. Many guardsmen later testified that they were in fear for their lives. The President's Commission on Campus Unrest harshly criticized both the protesters and the Guardsmen, but it concluded that "the indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable."
The shootings killed four students. Two of the four students killed, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest. The other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder, had been walking from one class to the next at the time of their deaths.
Only Military and Law Enforcement can be trusted with firearms.
C_Clayton_Jones
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Thus far Democrats aren’t interested in defeating Trump.
Most polls showed McGovern running well behind incumbent President Richard Nixon, except when McGovern was paired with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. McGovern and his campaign brain trust lobbied Senator Kennedy heavily to accept the bid to be McGovern's running mate. Much to their surprise, he refused.
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I am betting some of those voting for Sanders are Trump voters making sure the weakest candidate win the Democratic Primary...
Kent State, a college in Ohio, sorry to assume people knew the venue.
Nonsense, I'm no propagandist. I'm an old Vietnam war protestor, but I know this story well, and that's how it went. I have no idea what silliness some people are trying to retrofit to it at this very late stage, left or right, equally inappropriate, but there was certainly panic on both sides on the campus that day.
The most dramatic thing to me at the time was that the incident was followed by a book titled Don't Shoot, These Are Our Children.
I wonder if any Democrats did the same for Trump in 2016
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"President's Commission on Campus Unrest harshly criticized both the protesters and the Guardsmen, but it concluded that "the indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable."
A criminal act by cowards stoked to violence by an atmosphere engendered largely by vituperative language circulating in media, often issuing from people in responsible positions. This shame to America was never expiated, even by just sentencing for the perpetrators.
A criminal act by cowards stoked to violence by an atmosphere engendered largely by vituperative language circulating in media, often issuing from people in responsible positions. This shame to America was never expiated, even by just sentencing for the perpetrators.
That would be something! If that were to be the case, it would likely look something like this:
Older voters know who Bernie is, we recognize him, we saw a number of these guys in the 60's and early 70's. He is an old-fashioned Communist or Communist fellow traveler or Communist dupe. In the Cold War, they fought on the other side.
He spoke up for the Communist regimes we wanted to see deposited on the ash heap of history. You can go to the tape to see him in action.
He is a true believer. Much as we may want to keep our powder dry for the campaign in the event that Democrats anoint him their presidential nominee, the Democratic establishment is hauling out the evidence of his war record. Yesterday 60 Minutes took its turn. They go easy in case he is the eventual Democratic nominee, but they offered a glimpse of Bernie’s ghost.
CBS has posted the video and transcript of the interview here.
Quotable quote: “It’s taxes on billionaires, you know?”
This Is Not McGovern’s America: Crazy Bernie Can Win It All.
McGovern got less than 30 million votes, Bernie would easily double that. McGovern badly trailed in polling, unless his running mate was Ted Kennedy, then McGovern led in head to head match ups, but, Ted refused the VP slot.
Sanders: “Everything is impossible – until it happens.”
In 1970, Junior High administrators showed “Reefer Madness” to scare students away from weed. Now, marijuana liberalization is happening – and Wednesday night, nary a candidate opposed it. Pete Buttigieg even displays a telltale leaf on a campaign button.
In the McGovern days, Roe v. Wade hadn’t even been decided, and most Democratic Party leaders – even Teddy Kennedy – were pro-life. The right to kill babies till the moment of birth has happened, even after, is not met with outrage.
Just before the 1972 election, the Supreme Court refused even to take up a same-sex marriage case, citing “want of a substantial federal question.” Fear of men and women sharing bathrooms? Almost enough in and of itself to sink the Equal Rights Amendment, sent to the states for ratification that year. What’s happened since?
National health plans in the ’70s were snuffed by powerful committee chairmen. Yet the government takeover of healthcare happened: jammed through over America’s screams 10 years ago, Obamacare now boasts a favorability rate of 55% to 37%. Medicare for All – is now favored by 63% of the public?
Make college a free entitlement? Is that more radical than the $1.4 trillion student loan overhang trapping young folks into a lifetime of debt service?
Ban fracking? How many Americans have bought into the popular narrative of earthquakes and gas exploding in bathroom faucets? Plenty.
And that “socialism” word: will younger voters really desert Sanders in droves over a couple comments praising Cuban communists? The Berlin Wall fell before a substantial bloc even drew breath. Communist China is our biggest trading partner. Millennials and beyond have a vague notion that socialism has been bad for Venezuela, but not why.
“Moderate” Democrats tried the roundhouses on Sanders Wednesday, and didn’t lay a glove on him. Sanders countered with research purporting to show his Medicare for All budget-buster would save money. Cited praise for the Castros from the sainted Barack Obama. Ridiculed efforts to align him with the NRA.
And he pointed to strong head-to-head polling numbers against Donald Trump and burgeoning grassroots support.
It’s not your father’s Democrat Party, or McGovern’s America. What once seemed impossible for a candidate like Bernie Sanders – winning – isn't.
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