Kent State: 4 Dead In Ohio: Its Going To Happen Again 2195

I covered some "peace" demonstrations back in those days, and they were anything but peaceful. In fact, given that the demonstrators numbers included those who *sole* purpose was to incite violence, chaos, physical attack and property destruction, it's no small wonder that more "protesters" weren't end.

Just like today's "peace protests", many of the organizations who are involved in the effort, in ways large and small, are hard-core leftists, anarchists and the like using the people who are exercising their right of buttembly and peaceful demonstration to further their own aims.

Case in point, International ANSWER. If you were against the Iraq action and chose to demonstrate against it, you can thank these guys for obliterating the message you may have wanted to convey. If you attended a demonstration organized and policed by ANSWER, you were quite simply being used by virulent anti-Americans, and these people are quite literally thugs.

If someone marched under ANSWER's banner, without knowing the facts about the organization, then people who *do* know the full story of this organization will quite rightly consider that someone as ignorant, or as willing to be used like a tool, or as like-minded thugs themselves.

The Vietnam era was when I first discovered the cynical manipulation by anti-American organizations, and things don't seem to have changed much on the left. Same old same old. But most of us are a bit more well-informed these days. Were I compelled to demonstrate against any American action, I would never do so under the auspices of folks like ANSWER, any more than I would attend a pro-Bush or any demonstration which was tainted by the KKK. After all, ANSWER is not much different than the KKK.

So, when the issue of Kent State comes up, I like to remind people that the Guard was not the only enbreasty to make a mistake that day, and that there were people who actually benefited from the mistake, and wished for it. Those people were what was known then as "Communists", and if someone actually believes that many of the more violent protests of that time were not directed by them, they're simply ignorant or in denial.