As the Trump scheme waddles, trips and and farts its way to failure, any pretense of legitimacy, will soon disappear like a cloud of toxic steam. At that point, expect false flag events like Kent State to occur in order to stir up panic and fear to justify a militarized state.
Originally published at DeMOCKracy.ink
There are some moments that stick forever in the memory. Today is the 55th anniversary of one such moment for me: I distinctly remember when, where and who I was with when I heard of the National Guard murder of four Vietnam War student protesters at Kent State University in Ohio. Another nine were wounded, one paralyzed from the waist down.
Fifty-five years ago and literally almost to the hour as I write this.
Ten days later the same thing happened at Jackson State University, where two were killed and a dozen wounded when police opened fire on a women’s dormitory
The video below of a presentation by Mike Alewitz, a student organizer at Kent State, is a powerful walk through of the event, including many photos and details of state and federal conspiracy, provocation and cover-up I did not know about.
At the time the video was recorded, “Hope and Change” President Obama had recently announced there would be no investigation of the state atrocity even though, as Alewitz, notes an FBI informant, Terry Norman (21:00 mark in the video), was among the students, possessed a handgun and possibly fired four shots just before the National Guard opened fire across an open athletic field at a scattering of students, many just innocently walking by on the way to class.
Student FBI informant Terry Norman was photographing demonstrators for the campus police and the FBI, a fact that was initially denied by both agencies but later confirmed. In addition, Norman was the only person on campus other than a Guardsman who admitted to having a firearm at the scene. ‘There has never been an accounting’
“The shooting has all the earmarks of a classic police operation where you set up the students in order to provide an excuse to gun them downbecause what they wanted to do was was to end the protests that were spreading all across the country and they thought that shooting some students would do that,” Alewitz notes. “ Terry Norman has never gone to court and had to explain what he was doing at Kent on that day. The whole shooting was buried and a cover-up took place about what happened on May 4th. There has never been an accounting.”
The segment of the video how the anti-war movement was embraced by many rank-and-file members of the military is a critically important lesson to understand and learn, especially as Israel’s insistence on war with Iran moves the US to yet another catastrophic Middle East war.
Given what we have seen with the recent fascist crackdowns and illegal jailing and deportation of many students, the lessons of the extent to which the corrupt government — especially so beholding to a foreign fascist country — will go, and underscores the need for informed peaceful protest and resistance.
If you are — or know of — a conscientious college student opposed to the US/Israel genocide, please watch and pass along this important video. This is essential history to understand in order to fully grasp the corrupt deception of the government.
As the Trump scheme waddles, trips and farts its way to failure, any pretense of legitimacy, will soon disappear like a cloud of toxic steam. At that point, expect false flag events like Kent State to occur in order to stir up panic and fear to justify a militarized state.
The Truth and Lessons of the Vietnam-Era Kent State and Jackson State Murders
The evidence is crystal clear that the shootings were not “accidental.” The order to shoot was given on the scene, and given that the commanders were never investigated or charged, the only possible assumption is that their orders came from higher up.
In May 2012, Mike Alewitz, a Central Connecticut State University professor and eyewitness to the Kent State massacre of 1970, spoke about the killings shortly after the Justice Department decided not to take a new look at the murders of the students. After you hear his talk and look at his photos it’s pretty obvious someone ordered the Guard to open fire on the few people in a near empty parking lot.
Mark Taylor is a former newspaper political cartoonist and award-winning outdoor/environmental journalist who later went on to a career as a psychotherapist. He makes all his Substack writing, artwork and photos available for free use in this time of needed resistance and national revival..
