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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:17 PM
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The National Guard would never fire on their own people


Kasich has options.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:20 PM
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1. Kent State 1970 is not now.
If you want to see a REL rebellion in this country, wait until the Guard shoots a few middle-class, middle-aged demonstrators.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 07:27 PM
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11. They Have Done That Before Too
http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/bayviewmassacre.php
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:34 PM
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15. Hell, I know. I posted that same stuff 2 or 3 days ago.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:20 PM
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2. Remember Kent State! nt
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:52 PM
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8. Yeah...
from 41 years ago.

Please.
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AnOhioan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:21 PM
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3. While you are correct that the Guard has fired.....
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 06:27 PM by AnOhioan
on citizens in the past...your post seems a bit paranoid. Kasich would assure his impeachment were that to occur in the present. and the thing he values most is the title on the door.
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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:47 PM
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6. The comment about Kasich was snarkish.
Strickland has just called him a Tyrant.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:52 PM
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7. Wouldn't that depend on how badly the crowd was behaving?
Some people in this country actually believed at the time that the Kent State shootings were justified.

A Gallup Poll taken immediately after the shootings showed that 58 percent of respondents blamed the students, 11 percent blamed the National Guard and 31 percent expressed no opinion.

In my opinion, that's STILL the country in which we reside.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:23 PM
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4. NOT IF THE PRESIDENT STANDS UP TO HIM
The President is the Commander in Chief of the National Guard and he can federalize it under the Warner Act and then give the order to stand down.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 07:08 PM
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9. He can not just do it at a whim
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 08:00 PM
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12. Agreed but if any Gov calls out the Guard against workers
it MUST be stopped. There is no choice.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 06:24 PM
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5. NEVER, fucking EVER, forget. That's our job as Americans. nt
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 06:25 PM by patrice
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 07:08 PM
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10. Why yes. Yes, they would.
And in Ohio, no less.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 08:15 PM
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13. Four dead in O-HI-O. nt
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 08:23 PM
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14. I don't think we have to worry about the National Guard..
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 08:23 PM by AsahinaKimi
on the other hand, armed Tea baggers are looking for a fight.. and if they come armed.. you can bet, they will act like the Thugs in Egypt.
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TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:58 PM
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16. What do you think half the point of embroiling them in the atrocities...
...of Afghanistan and Iraq has been all about? Desensitisation.

That plus putting the Texans in Queens the fundies in San Francisco, and those from the original 13 just about anywhere else would be more than enough to get Americans firing on Americans if "THEY" ever do decide to go the whole hawg with martial law.
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