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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is Jonesin' For Another Kent State.
If his goons shoot a few demonstrators he can supercharge his "Law 'N Order" "I'm a tough guy" image.
Don't think he hasn't been egging them on to do it.
Of course, it didn't exactly help Nixon. But he's an idiot and you can expect anything out of him.
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)again in the realm of possibility, especially w/ these thugs having their own power trip (and probably other drugs too, knowing rump and his nose/sniffling)...
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Fascinating, and eerie echoes.
President Nixon and his administration's public reaction to the shootings was perceived by many in the anti-war movement as callous. Then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger said the President was "pretending indifference". Stanley Karnow noted in his Vietnam: A History that: "The [Nixon] administration initially reacted to this event with wanton insensitivity. Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, whose statements were carefully programmed, referred to the deaths as a reminder that 'when dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy.'" Three days before the shootings, Nixon had talked of "bums" who were antiwar protestors on United States campuses,[49] to which the father of Allison Krause stated on national TV: "My child was not a bum."[50]
There's a lot more just about the aftermath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Aftermath_and_long-term_effects
LiberalArkie
(15,732 posts)a lot of the people are quitting.
leftieNanner
(15,190 posts)Do you have any details?
Trump has been scouring out all of the ethical and knowledgeable people from every level of our government.
LiberalArkie
(15,732 posts)job offers now.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)still emulating one of his idols
Initech
(100,129 posts)And that's quite the disgusting picture!
Walleye
(31,119 posts)Demsrule86
(68,768 posts)And Nixon had nothing to do with calling out the national guard. My sis tells me this was when my parents turned against Vietnam.
Walleye
(31,119 posts)moondust
(20,019 posts)Ohiogal
(32,144 posts)Really eerie comparison.
Thanks, Liberal In Texas
Under The Radar
(3,406 posts)Demsrule86
(68,768 posts)rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)injuring one of this officers. He'd love to run on "police under attack".
As it doesn't make sense that they don't identify themselves, agency or read the suspect there rights.