We All Know What's Next Don't We ????

[RagAss]

I'll give you a hint;

Google : May 4, 1970 + Ohio + National Guard.

Enough said.

[valerief]

1. Should we wear bulletproof vests and gas masks when we protest

on Sept 24-26 in DC?

[ToolTex]

3. Afraid vests won't help much.

They have a lot more fire-power these days, and will probably be shooting from choppers with rockets. They have been practicing in Baghdad.

[valerief]

4. So do you recommend putting off the Sept 24 trip?

Are protests too "Tienneman Square" in the US now?

[shadowknows69]

15. Only if you don't have the strength

to fight for our very democracy.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi ToolTex!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Dem Agog]

2. four dead in ohio...

if only four were dead in NO...

four is suddenly such a small number. so sad.

[distantearlywarning]

5. What would be the response if Kent State happened today?

I'm guessing not much.

It'd be spun on Fox News and people would go back to watching 24-7 coverage of "White girl missing in Aruba (these are not the 50,000 black residents of New Orleans you're looking for)"

[RagAss]

6. You got that right !!!!

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Looks like they're halfway there

Several residents of the impromptu shantytown recounted two horrific incidents where those charged with keeping people safe had killed them instead.

In one, a young man was run down and then shot by a New Orleans police officer, in another a man seeking help was gunned down by a National Guard soldier, witnesses said.

Police here refused to discuss or confirm either incident. National Guard spokesman Lt. Col Pete Schneider said "I have not heard any information of a weapon being discharged."

"They killed a man here last night," Steve Banka, 28, told Reuters. "A young lady was being raped and stabbed. And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag down a passing truck of them, and he jumped up on the truck's windscreen and they shot him dead."

Wade Batiste, 48, recounted another tale of horror.

"Last night at 8 p.m. they shot a kid of just 16. He was just crossing the street. They ran him over, the New Orleans police did, and then they got out of the car and shot him in the head," Batiste said.

The young man's body lay in the street by the Convention Center's entrance on Saturday morning, covered in a black blanket, a stream of congealed blood staining the street around him. Nearby his family sat in shock.

Rapes, killings hit Katrina refugees in New Orleans

[RagAss]

8. and the military will keep the cameras off for the next 5 days

while they "clean out the city"......people will have no idea...

[wli]

11. it doesn't look good n/t

[shadowknows69]

16. well there will be a lot of video cameras running in DC

on the 24th. No matter what happens someone will get out with it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. MY God!

:cry: YOU BASTARD BUSH**

[ThingsGottaChange]

10. I can see them shooting demonstrators

Why not? They think they can get away with anything. I thought of Kent State when I first heard about the march in Washington this month. I honestly wouldn't be at all surprised if shots were fired. I would be absolutely horrified but, not surprised.

Anyone else think it's time for a revolution?

To all the folks going to D.C., PLEASE TAKE CARE!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

12. I'm going, they can't stop me...

Fuck them all.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi ThingsGottaChange!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[undeterred]

17. Our numbers will be legion

I'm willing to die protesting this corrupt government if thats what it takes.