Kent State, The Haymarket "Martyrs", And All The Riot Lies You've Been Told
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The recent failed attacks on ICE and Border Patrol Agents that left two attackers dead have led various commentators to compare recent events to the shootings at Kent State University during a 1970 riot protesting American defense of the late Republic of Vietnam, when Ohio National Guardsmen fired on rioters, killing four of them.
Kevin DeAnna Tweets:
American public opinion was strongly anti-rioter, and the Grand Jury that investigated it at the time cleared the Guardsmen of wrongdoing, but it led to nationwide strikes at university in protest.
Neil Young is the singer on this song below, and the lines include:
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
”Four dead in Ohio?" That’s not many dead considering that that same month in 1970, 428 US servicemen were killed in action in Vietnam, and 69 US allied troops (Australian, etc.)
The Vietnam War protesters of the 1970s had two motivations.
One: they didn’t want to fight for their country, because the didn’t want to be on the list of 428 servicemen killed in one month.
Two: they did want to fight against their country—they supported the aims of the Viet Cong and NVA. Thanks to the “silent coup” of Watergate, they succeeded, resulting not only in a national humiliation for the US, but a huge, and incredibly predictable death toll due to communist rule in Vietnam and Cambodia.
When I say “incredibly predictable,” I mean for example that my source for the casualty numbers [ Vietnam War Deaths and Casualties] includes the number of South Vietnamese civilians assassinated and abducted in Vietnam in 1970. For the month of May 1970, that was 861 assassinated and 1069 abducted. So the four deaths in Ohio were in the service of that.
In 2017, I wrote that the killing of “unarmed student protesters” in the Kent State Riots is part of a whole list of things like this that you’ve been lied to about, and said that the Guardsmen who fired at the rioters—armed with rocks, setting things on fire, and outnumbering the Guardsmen a hundred to one, said they were responding to sniper fire. No one ever believed them, but recently evidence has come to light that five shots were fired in the crowd.
Not at the Guardsmen, it’s true. They were fired in self-defense by a photographer—Kent State student Terry Norman—who was afraid he’d be beaten to death by the “unarmed student protesters” .[“Kent State tape indicates altercation and pistol fire preceded National Guard shootings (audio)”. By John Mangels, Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 8, 2010]
Here’s a quote from Robert F. Turner, of the Washington Times, writing on the new evidence, but explaining the background for the young folks:
By way of background, the guard had been mobilized following violent protests against President Nixon’s “illegal” decision to send American troops into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese sanctuaries, from which communist forces had been crossing regularly into South Vietnam to attack U.S. troops and the South Vietnamese. Over a period of four days, bonfires were built in Kent streets, beer bottles and rocks were thrown at passing vehicles and through storefront windows, and more than 1,000 students surrounded the ROTC building, cheering as it burned.
Responding police and firemen were pelted with rocks and bottles, and fire hoses were slashed. Gov. James Rhodes called out the guard to restore order.
Though a Gallup Poll reported 58 percent of Americans blamed the protesters and just 11 percent blamed the guard, the Kent State incident was a great and inexcusable tragedy no matter who was primarily to blame. But its consequences in the years that followed proved far more catastrophic.
Perhaps the greatest irony is that the angry students - as so often was the case throughout the war - had their facts wrong. Going into Cambodia was not “illegal.” Like South Vietnam, Cambodia was one of the “protocol states” the United States had solemnly pledged to defend against communist aggression when the Senate in 1955 consented to the ratification of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization agreement with but a single dissenting vote. Cambodia, like South Vietnam, was similarly incorporated by reference in the 1964 statute, by which 99.6 percent of Congress authorized the use of military force to carry out our SEATO obligations.
[Not a massacre but a mistake By Robert F. Turner, The Washington Times, October 12, 2010]
Turner, as a young man, was there in Vietnam. He spent three years in country, voluntarily, as Captain via ROTC, unlike the Kent State students.
So if you’re wondering why protesters in Minnesota are fighting and in extreme cases dying for the right of child molesters to walk the streets of Minneapolis, remember that their 1970s Leftist counterparts fought, and at Kent State died for the Killing Fields of Cambodia:
By a coincidence—and it was a coincidence, the riots were triggered by Nixon’s April 30 announcement of US incursion into Cambodia four days before the Kent State shooting—the Kent State incident occurred on the 84th anniversary of the Chicago “Haymarket Massacre” of May 4, 1886, in which seven police were murdered by anarchist bombs.
The Chicago policemen, attempting to break up a riot led by foreign anarchists, were met with a home-made anarchist bomb, and gunfire from armed rioters.
The conviction of eight of the anarchist leaders has long been considered a miscarriage of justice, and is generally taught as such in textbooks. Some were later pardoned by liberal governor John Peter Altgeld, who thought them not guilty.
In 2017, I wrote The Fulford File: The Haymarket Martyrs, And Other Riot Lies for VDARE.com in which I explained that the “martyrs” (which to the Left means the bombers, not the police) were always guilty, and the only reason you might think they’re not is because the history is taught by people who sympathize with convicts, on the theory that they’re oppressed, and Vietnam era history is taught by people who sympathize with the Viet Cong, with antiwar rioters, and with Weatherman movement terrorists.
In fact, until recently some of the teachers were Weatherman movement terrorists.
So it was a surprise when a labor historian named Timothy Messer-Kruse got interested in the original records of the anarchists’ trial and discovered, surprise! They were guilty.
If you read my original piece, you’ll not only find out more about that, but about South Africa’s Sharpeville Massacre of which you’ve probably heard…preceded two months earlier by the Cato Manor massacre of which you have, I am reasonably confident, never heard.
My point is that you know they’re lying about Minnesota, because you can see the video and lies on Twitter. What you may not know is that they also lied about Kent State, Sharpeville…and the Haymarket Bombing of 1886, and many other things including the Civil Rights Movement.
James Fulford has been writing about the national question for over 20 years, mostly for VDARE.com, more recently for WhitePapers.