You Can't Hate These People Enough
The unspeakable wave of HORROR and BRUTALITY breaking across American college campuses is a chilling echo of….
Tensions swirl! The fuse is lit on the powderkeg of rage!
The demonstrations at Kent State have been peaceful, but there’s still an undercurrent of tension, and there are both Jewish and Palestinian students who don’t feel safe, said Adriana Gasiewski, a junior who has covered them for the school newspaper.
Gasiewski worries about the powder-keg atmosphere at schools like Columbia University, where the current wave of protests originated last month and New York City police have repeatedly clashed with demonstrators.
The story includes interviews with former Kent State students who survived the shooting, to establish the tone — in a story that opens with a description of gunfire.
Meanwhile, actual news:
Campus protesters are mostly being released with misdemeanor citations, a chilling echo of the moment when students were shot and killed. They’re murdering the students again, in the sense that they’re giving them tickets and sending them home.
But wait, there’s more!
The parallels don’t end there.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said “outside agitators” are fomenting antisemitic protests. In 1970, Ohio Gov. James Rhodes, who made the decision to send National Guard troops to Kent State, accused external groups of spreading terror, calling them “the worst type of people that we harbor in America.”
The terrifying parallel! Like the brutal murderers of the 1960s, government officials are smearing protesters as outside agitators to delegitimize their righteous sentiment. Oh, and by the way:
Most of the arrests took place at Harlem’s City College campus, where 170 people in total were taken into custody…Of the 170, 102 were “unaffiliated” with the college, according to the data…Forty-four of the arrests at Columbia happened inside the occupied Hamilton Hall, according to other data obtained by The News. Of them, 25 were Columbia students or employees, six were students at unidentified “affiliated institutions” and 13 were “nonaffiliates,” the data says.
So yes, there just literally were a bunch of outsiders among the people staging the protests and the campus takeovers. It’s just…true. IN A TERRIFYING ECHO OF A CHILLING PAST OF WANTON SLAUGHTER.
Being old enough to remember the arson at Kent State and the mob assault on the National Guardsmen who were there to contain the violence, the greatest irony of all is that those who were involved had student deferrals.
Meanwhile, the rest of us were preparing ourselves to be inducted. I was younger and when my day came, the draft had just been suspended.
The shooting of the arsonists had one salutary effect; the proponents of violent revolution and their agitators became cautious and stopped inciting arson and mayhem for a little while.
Meanwhile, an entire mythology has arisen around the campus riots performed by the sons and daughters of privilege that would have burned working Americans out of their homes in the same fashion as those who burned, looted and murdered across America just a couple of years ago.
I'd blindly accepted that mythology for decades before realizing it for the propaganda it was and still is.
Freedom of speech and association are always under attack when violent agitators are protected from accountability. Millions have peacefully picketed and marched for the causes they believe in, as is their right and even their duty. Equally important is the duty to turn violent agents provocateur over to the police when a peaceful demonstration is redirected into violent mob action.
Much is said about division, of late. A great deal of that division has been sown by those who reject Thoreau's maxim about the duties attendant to civil disobedience.
Well that's what happens when Uber Eats forgets the quinoa on you kale salad!...it feels like murder.
Times are tough Chris!...:)