On 7/27/2017 3:20 PM, Winston Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:48:09 -0000 (UTC), "Wile E. Coyote" wrote:
>> Winston Smith wrote
>>
>>> The conservative government turned violent at Kent State.
>>
>> That is an absurd statement.
>
> Why?
>
> "KENT STATE"
> Perhaps there is no place called Kent State.
Wrong.
>
> Perhaps there is a Kent State but nothing of note ever happened there.
Wrong.
> "VIOLENT"
> Perhaps the students ignorantly wandered into a posted rifle range.
Wrong.
> Perhaps shooting unarmed students handing out flowers is not violence.
Perhaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
The war had appeared to be winding down in 1969, so the new invasion of
Cambodia angered those who believed it only exacerbated the conflict.
Across the U.S., campuses erupted in protests in what Time called "a
nation-wide student strike", setting the stage for the events of early
May 1970
Kent State Protest Activity 1966-1970[edit]
During the 1966 Homecoming Parade protesters walked dressed in military
paraphernalia with gas masks.[12]
During the fall of 1968 the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and
a campus Black Student Organization staged a sit in to protest police
recruiters on campus. 250 black students walked off campus in a
successful amnesty bid for the protesters.[12]
On April 1, 1969 the SDS members attempted to enter the administration
building with a list of demands where they clashed with police. Kent
State revoked the charter of the SDS. On April 16 a disciplinary hearing
involving two of the protesters resulted in a clash between supporters
and opponents of the SDS. The Ohio State Highway Patrol was called and
58 were arrested. Four SDS leaders were spent six months in prison as a
result of the incident. [12]
On April 10, 1970 Jerry Rubin a leader of the Youth International
Party(Yippie) party spoke on campus. In remarks reported locally, he
said "“The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents.
They are the first oppressors.” These remarks frightened local residents
who took them literally. Two weeks after that Bill Anthrell an SDS
member and former student distributed flyers to an event in which he
said he was going to napalm a dog. The event turned out to be an anti
napalm teach in.[12]
> "GOVERNMENT"
> Perhaps soldiers in uniforms provided by the government, carrying
> rifles provided by the government, and shooting bullets provided by
> the government is not a government action.
Perhaps the Ohio Guard doesn't represent the entirety of the US Government.
> "CONSERVATIVE"
> Perhaps President Nixon was not a conservative.
Indeed so.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/337447/nixon-100-was-he-americas-last-liberal-john-fund
Conrad Black proclaimed in a 2011piece on NRO that Nixon was “halfway to
Mount Rushmore.” I have a more negative take: I believe that Richard
Nixon governed more as a liberal than anything else, and that the
Watergate scandal set back the cause of conservatism. From our failure
to control runaway spending to restrictions on campaign finance, we are
still dealing with the repercussions of his mistakes. There is clear
evidence that Nixon didn’t really like or trust conservatives, even if
he hired a bunch of them. Rather, he used them and freely abandoned
their principles when convenient. In a 1983 interview, he told historian
Joan Hoff that his many liberal initiatives as president (from the
creation of the Environmental Protection Agency to his calls for
universal health insurance) reflected his own background and association
with the “progressive” wing of the Republican party. In private, Nixon
was scathing about conservatives ranging from Ronald Reagan (he
considered him a showy “know-nothing”) to William F. Buckley Jr., the
founder of National Review. John C. Whitaker, a top Nixon aide, wrote in
Presidential Studies Quarterly that he sat with Nixon on a plane the day
after Buckley lost the 1965 race for mayor of New York to liberal
Republican John Lindsay. “The trouble with far-right conservatives like
Buckley,” Nixon told Whitaker, “is that they really don’t give a damn
about people and the voters sense that. Yet any Republican presidential
candidate can’t stray too far from the right-wingers because they can
dominate a primary and are even more important in close general
elections. Remember, John,” Nixon lectured, “the far-right kooks are
just like the nuts on the left, they’re door-bell ringers and balloon
blowers, but they turn out to vote. There is only one thing as bad as a
far-left liberal and that’s a damn right-wing conservative.” Whitaker
wrote that this and other conversations he had with Nixon were
indicative of “Nixon’s visceral tilt towards the moderate/liberal side
when dealing with domestic legislation, coupled with his respect (maybe
fear is a better word) for the political clout of the right wing, so
necessary to win national elections.”
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/337447/nixon-100-was-he-americas-last-liberal-john-fund
> I believe that covers every word in my post. I look forward to your
> reasoning.
Why?