Kent State and us

Yesterday was the 36th anniversary of the Kent State massacre.

In a piece published at Democrats.com, SmirkingChimp.com, and probably elsewhere, Bob Geiger warns us about how it could happen again.

Geiger gives weight to his premise by quoting the chilling words of a former Kent State student who was permanently disabled by a bullet to the spine by one of those National Guard bullets:
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"When he made the announcement, a very defiant announcement that we were invading Cambodia, he didn’t care what people thought about it -- that's the impression I got and that many of my fellow students got at the same time too. To me, it didn’t make sense. Why were we expanding the war when he was talking about ending the war and bringing our troops home and getting out of there?

"We were invading another country. I thoroughly agreed with the history and political science department at Kent who, the next day, on May 1st, buried a copy of the Constitution because they felt that he had overstepped his powers as Commander-in-Chief by sending troops into another country. The mood kind of changed on campus at that point in time."
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Wow.