Earl (05-30-2020)
You do have to laugh at old Moonshi'ite, very much wedded to the notion that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Meanwhile his mullah pals want a piece of the action as well!! Iran's security forces brutally hacked down and killed thousands of protestors recently, yet they have the fucking audacity to make capital out of this incident. Of course anyone filming them in action would last very long either.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other...an/ar-BB14FOoa
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 05-29-2020 at 09:15 PM.
Earl (05-30-2020)
Wednesday I watched the riot. ..
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn"
"Well, I seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite 'em
And they say it served 'em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin' "You can't understand me!"
'n all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and tv and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
(No matter if it's black or white)
Because he's out for blood tonight." (Zappa)
Earl (05-30-2020)
Where is the National Guard? This shit is appalling. All the businesses and buildings, cars being destroyed. I have zero sympathy for these pieces of shit. I'd be happy to see them all taken out.
Earl (05-30-2020), Life is Golden (05-30-2020)
When a person decides to riot, burn and steal cell phones and TV's, that person is responsible, no one else.
The left justifies the anarchy and blame it on the action of a white police officer killing a black person. Does that mean that when a black police officer kills a white citizen, the whites are justified for rioting, stealing and burning?
Life is Golden (05-30-2020)
Gunslinger, once the bullet leaves the barrel, there is no control over where it stops.
Kent State was 50 years ago this month. Do you remember Waco? Ruby Ridge?
All of the students shot were in good standing at the University. Several of those wounded and killed were just going between classes and not participating in the protest. Let Trump order the National Guard and "take out the trash". Let's see where this ends, Quick Draw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others. Students Allison Beth Krause, 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, and William Knox Schroeder, 19, were killed and nine others were injured, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. All perished at the scene except Schroeder, who was pronounced dead at Robinson Memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna shortly afterward...
...Killed (and approximate distance from the National Guard):
Jeffrey Glenn Miller; 265 ft (81 m) shot through the mouth; killed instantly.
Allison B. Krause; 343 ft (105 m) fatal left chest wound; dead on arrival.
William Knox Schroeder; 382 ft (116 m) fatal chest wound; died almost an hour later in a local hospital while undergoing surgery. He was a member of the campus ROTC battalion.
Sandra Lee Scheuer; 390 ft (120 m) fatal neck wound; died a few minutes later from loss of blood.
Wounded (and approximate distance from the National Guard):
Joseph Lewis, Jr.; 71 ft (22 m); hit twice; once in his right abdomen and once in his lower left leg.
John R. Cleary; 110 ft (34 m); upper left chest wound.
Thomas Mark Grace; 225 ft (69 m); hit in his left ankle.
Alan Michael Canfora; 225 ft (69 m); hit in his right wrist.
Dean R. Kahler; 300 ft (91 m); back wound fracturing the vertebrae; permanently paralyzed from the chest down.
Douglas Alan Wrentmore; 329 ft (100 m); hit in his right knee.
James Dennis Russell; 375 ft (114 m); hit in his right thigh from a bullet and grazed on his right forehead by either a bullet or birdshot; both wounds minor (wounded near the Memorial Gymnasium, away from most of the other students).
Robert Follis Stamps; 495 ft (151 m); hit in his right buttock.
Donald Scott MacKenzie; 750 ft (230 m); neck wound.
In the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (pp. 273–274)[41] they mistakenly list Thomas V. Grace, who is Thomas Mark Grace's father, as the Thomas Grace injured.
All those shot were students in good standing at the university....
....A common sentiment was expressed by students at New York University with a banner hung out of a window that read, "They Can't Kill Us All."[47] On May 8, eleven people were bayonetted at the University of New Mexico by the New Mexico National Guard in a confrontation with student protesters.[48] Also on May 8, an antiwar protest at New York's Federal Hall National Memorial held at least partly in reaction to the Kent State killings was met with a counter-rally of pro-Nixon construction workers (organized by Peter J. Brennan, later appointed U.S. Labor Secretary by President Nixon), resulting in the Hard Hat Riot. Shortly after the shootings took place, the Urban Institute conducted a national study that concluded the Kent State shooting was the first nationwide student strike in U.S. history; over 4 million students protested and hundreds of American colleges and universities closed during the student strikes. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
The reason they had joined the National Guard was to avoid being drafted and going to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Schroeder was getting an education to try to be an officer in Vietnam. He was learning Vietnamese to better serve his country. He told his friends that even if he did not agree with the war, he had been given so much by his country that he thought he owed it to his country to serve, and serve well.
Then a bunch of draft dodging right wingers shot him as he walked between classes.
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