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Subject: Re: "Sometimes Kids Get Killed": Joy Behar Predicts Another Kent State As National Guard Patrols L.A.
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:31:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jun 11, 2025 at 1:30:47 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> Joy Behar predicted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's decision to 
> deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles was likely to result in another
> tragedy 
> like the one that played out at Ohio's Kent State University in May of 1970.
> 
> "There is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause. That's the fact of
> 
> the matter," Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying the protests were "very, very 
> orderly" and claiming that if immigration authorities had not showed up to 
> enforce federal immigration law, there would be no problem.

And here's another doing it: "Stop enforcing the law because it upsets the
criminals."

> It was then that Behar invoked the memory of Kent State, saying that bringing
> 
> in the National Guard reminded her of the situation that had played out there
> 
> in 1970 when anti-war (Vietnam) protesters had effectively cornered the 
> National Guard troops who were brought in by then-Governor James Rhodes. 
> Several of the National Guardsmen fired their weapons, killing four and 
> wounding nine. A 1974 criminal trial against eight National Guardsmen was 
> dismissed by District Judge Frank Battisti mid-trial after he said that the 
> prosecution’s case was so weak that the defense need not present its case at 
> all.

You know I'd say it's amazing that I never knew the outcome of that trial--
that it was such a clear-cut case of self-defense that the judge granted
summary judgment in favor of the defendants mid-trial, but given the leftist
infection of the education system, it's no surprise that my teachers left that
bit out when discussing the incident.