Newly released evidence shows Kent State shootings were likely deliberate murder

[JohnyCanuck]

by government authorities and not an accident, not that you would ever find out about the release of this evidence (as a result of a FOIA request) by following the reporting of the lame stream media whores.

The Lethal Media Silence on Kent State’s Smoking Guns
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

The 1970 killings by National Guardsmen of four students during a peaceful anti-war demonstration at Kent State University have now been shown to be cold-blooded, premeditated official murder. But the definitive proof of this monumental historic reality is not, apparently, worthy of significant analysis or comment in today’s mainstream media.

After 37 years of official denial and cover-up, tape-recorded evidence, that has existed for decades and has been in the possession of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has finally been made public.

It proves what “conspiracy theorists” have argued since 1970—that there was a direct military order leading to the unprovoked assassination of unarmed students. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents show collusion between Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes and the FBI that aimed to terrorize anti-war demonstrators and their protests that were raging throughout the nation.

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For 37 years the official cover story has been that a mysterious shot rang out and the young Guardsmen panicked, firing directly into the “mob” of students.

This week, that cover story was definitively proven to be a lie.

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The fact that the Guard got direct orders to set, aim and shoot flies directly in the face of the official cover story that they were responding in panic to a random shot fired at them, or that they were defending themselves from some kind of student attack.

In fact, it seems highly likely no shot ever rang out prior to the order to fire. Nor could the Guard, who killed a student as much as 900 feet away from the rally, say they were under any serious attack from the students.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/07/1021/

Hmm, US government authorities sanctioning the murder of their fellow citizens. Whoever would have believed it possible?

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Many of us have been saying

....this for years. It's no surprise, but I'm glad it's finally coming out.

Cheers

[Monkeyman]

6. Yep

[EFerrari]

2. This is so sad. And the thought never crossed my mind.

:(

[MADem]

3. I just don't understand the "POINT" business.

Ready, aim, fire, is one thing. POINT, though? I've been decades in service and never heard POINT in that context. I've never served in the Guard, though, but I don't think they're that hosed as to use that term routinely. There is something wrong there, or missing.

Though they're saying that the whole thing is "definitive" it really still isn't.

We know that someone fucked up. We don't know, really, how high up it went, if it was an "organized" effort--a coverup where knowledge went all the way to the top, that orders were given down a chain of command--or if one or two guys who were in charge on the ground either gave a bad order (or their subordinate did) and they knew what happened and just lied from the git-go and kept on lying.

I wish they had the ability to determine, from voice prints, who was speaking those words. That would be very helpful.

We simply cannot make the leap that some fat general sitting behind a desk somewhere barked an order and Kent State "happened." That's a bridge way too far. Some 0-2 who was stupid and scared shitless barking a bad order? That's plausible. So are a number of other scenarios. I do wish they'd reopen an investigation, before all the involved actors die.

[indepat]

4. And look what 'puke rule during 25 of the ensuing 37 years has wrought upon this

Republic, once the land of the free and home of the brave. Since there is no statue of limitations for murder, may the victims' families have their days in court.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. What a shock: 37 years of being right about just about everything.

Like it took a brainiac figure that the murders at Kent and Jackson State were deliberate provocations by that fucking war criminal nixon.

File under the ever-growing No Duh folder.

[bbernardini]

7. I don't understand. There's no mention of Bill Clinton or his penis anywhere in this article!

Clearly, the Kent State killings were Clinton's fault. Stupid liberal media is trying to cover it up.

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