Could America experience another "Kent State"?

[Bandit]

If Bush* invades into Syria would any College in America stand up and say "Stop It" just "Stop It". And if they did would modern day National Guard troops open fire on them like was done at Kent State thirty years ago? I think that was truly a/the turning point in the Vietnam Conflict. When American College kids start being killed by government agents America wakes up. Will it need to come to something like that before America today will Wake Up?

[tk2kewl]

1. It will require a draft to get people upset enough to protest

on the scale of that time

[LSdemocrat]

5. Yup. That's precisely why the Vietnam protests occured on a large scale

[Lannes]

6. I agree

[UdoKier]

10. There have been several protests with over 100,00 people over Iraq.

The difference is that today's corporate media will not cover them, other than to ridicule them.

[havocmom]

2. Any day now.

Look for 'another Pearl Harbor' soon too. They already deployed ships from Norfolk. Will need a trigger event any ol time to whip the people up into a flag wavin' frenzy.

June is coming fast. Lots of kids getting outta school and no economy to give them jobs. Timing is everything.

[trotsky]

3. Some Repukes have already been conditioning people to accept it.

Driving home the point that colleges are home to subversive liberal professors who are corrupting our youth. Thanks, Lynne Cheney!

[Call me Deacon Blues]

4. I was thinking about that this morning

Unfortunately, I think it's inevitable. Considering the thugs we have in office, it will come sooner rather than later. Right now they can ship them off to their death camps at will, but once there are too many to dispose of quietly, they'll start gunning them down. Count on it. (And I believe it was 35 years ago.)

[calico1]

7. Not unless there is a draft.

Then it will become a personal issue to everyone and not just someone else's problem. Until then, the clueless will continue to be clueless.

[deutsey]

8. I'm getting a sense that younger, draftable people

are not happy with Bush's militarism. A draft could indeed "turn the tide" of public opposition against the Bushkrieg.

If that happens and we have another situation like the late '60s and early '70s, you can pretty much count on state violence increasing in retaliation.

You don't have to look at Kent State or Chicago '68 for instances of this. Look throughout US history, especially the labor and civil rights movements, or even the Bonus Army marching on DC in the early '30s.

[UdoKier]

9. Kent State was a Sunday picnic compared to what's coming down the pike.

It's just a matter of when.

The sheeple are already being conditioned to think of liberals and protesters in general as traitors and anti-American. Most protests are utterly ignored by the corporate media, even when there are tens of thousands of people, so when it happens, there may be dozens or hundreds of corpses.




And the media will be stone cold silent. Your friends in the hinterlands won't even know it happened.

When you tell them to check out the photos on indymedia, there will be no indymedia.

It has nothing to do with Syria or any other specific event. It's what we are being prepared for, and it's what's on the way, inexorably and surely as the entire New Deal safety net is being swept into the dustbin of history.

Do you really have the nerve to try and stand in the way of it?

[donsu]

12. agree

america is dead

what's left is something else

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. Not a chance.

There aren't any National Guard troops around to shoot protesters - they're all in Iraq.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. It's just a matter of time.

The Kent shootings were the best publicized, but they were far from the only such incidents. I think it was just a couple months earlier that 3 kids were killed and a couple dozen wounded on a black campus - just where is not coming to mind at the moment. (Jacksonville?)

Then of course there were also the 'rioters' being shot on a regular basis.

The only notable thing about Kent was that it was middle-class white kids, including some who had nothing to do with the protesting.