MAY 4, 1970: REMEMBERIN
REMEMBERING KENT STATE AND ITS AFTERMATH
Carl F. Worden
May 4, 2013
On May 4, 1970 I was traveling all over the United States doing promotional work with Circus Vargas. The Vietnam War was in full tilt as were the many anti-war demonstrations being held on college campuses across the nation. The news that National Guardsmen had opened fire on demonstrators at Kent State University didn't surprise me at all -- in fact, I was predicting exactly that -- but I just didn't know when or where. I simply knew it was going to happen because I am a student of human nature, and human nature is entirely predictable.
As anti-war protesters became more and more frustrated with the Nixon Administration's failure to address any of their concerns, their demonstrations became more and more violent, finally culminating in the Kent State Massacre. The National Guard was often used in crowd control at these demonstrations, and many National Guardsmen had been injured, some severely, by demonstrators throwing chunks of concrete, bricks, rocks and bottles. All the while as these demonstrations became more violent, the National Guard showed uncommon restraint. That restraint ended that day at Kent State.
We cannot reanimate the dead and we cannot un-wound the wounded, but we can at least learn from the incident. One thing we learned, but nobody seemed to notice, was that the anti-war demonstrations suddenly became totally non-violent unless deliberately goaded to violence in response to government and police infiltrators whose job it was to incite violence, even if they had to do it all by themselves. Once they succeeded, it provided the excuse for the police and National Guard to use force to disperse the crowds with tear gas and batons, and once the police initiated their attacks, the demonstrators just ran for their lives. That generally worked to control and disperse the otherwise peaceful demonstrators, but then the unintended consequences manifested themselves in the form of violent sub-cells calling themselves the Weathermen, otherwise known as the Weather Underground, who began a campaign of bombings, robberies and murders, often targeting just anyone who might be unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Had those morons known the rules of guerrilla warfare, they'd have won a great deal of support by targeting only those responsible for continuing the war -- and I'm not referring to the drafted soldiers who were literally forced to fight. Whatever those idiots thought they were accomplishing by protesting and abusing the soldiers and their families has always been a mystery to me, because those drafted citizens were far more victimized by the Vietnam War than anyone except the Vietnamese themselves.
In truth, the anti-war movement was correct:. The Vietnam War was, like the Korean War, a war never declared by Congress, and that was an obvious violation of our Constitution. Whether it was called a police action or an intervention to prevent the spread of Communism, the Vietnam War was an illegal military action by our government, and it was also the most blatant violation of our trust by the United States Government up to that time. The Bay of Tonkin incident was a false flag action and we all soon knew it. We were bombarded with one government lie after another in support of the effort, and in the meantime, kids we went to high school with were arriving home boxed or disfigured, kids who were drafted into military service mostly against their will to fight what turned out to be a political war against a nation that posed no national security threats to defend against.
Right after the Vietnam War ended, the draft was replaced by a volunteer military because our government malcontents knew they couldn't keep fighting undeclared wars with draftees. Now they just send our troops to fight wherever they want with a clear conscience, because after all, these new fighting men had volunteered to serve and they knew or should have known what they were getting into, right? To this day, I cannot understand why anyone volunteers to serve in the armed forces of the Unites States. They will use you and abuse you, and then after they've consumed you, they seldom fully keep the promises they made to get you to enlist in the first place. If you are a complete fool, enlist in the armed forces of the United States!
Presently, we no longer consider Communism to be the bogeyman. We have full trade relations with Communist China, which holds a huge amount of our debt, and the largest private employer in Communist Vietnam is Nike Shoes of Oregon. All those kids we went to school with died and were maimed for absolutely nothing, just as all the volunteers who were killed and maimed in Iraq, which is currently embroiled in a continuing civil war we never completely defeated before our troops were withdrawn. I have little doubt that Iraq will eventually be overtaken by another dictator just as bad or worse than Saddam Hussein ever was.
The Worden Rule of Guerrilla Warfare holds that it is impossible for a conventional military force to defeat a guerrilla force that is largely supported by the general population, and nothing I have witnessed since the Vietnam War and every other guerrilla war we've gotten ourselves into, places that rule into dispute. The IRA proved the validity of that rule as well. I will go so far as to confidently predict that if a guerrilla war breaks out between the people of the United States and the Government of the United States, the government of the United States will be defeated. It will be bloody and horrific, but the outcome will be the end of this nation as we know it.
All the ingredients for a second American Revolution are in place. Our Christian religion is under constant attack, our right to keep and bear small arms similar to those carried by police, National Guard and our military is being directly threatened by both national and state governments, our right to free speech is being dampened by political correctness, our unborn babies are being slaughtered wholesale, our nation has been invaded by illegal aliens using up our dwindling services and entitlements and the independent and free American way of life has been overtaken by creeping Socialism that is constantly infringing on our most basic civil rights. Just recently in Sacramento, a family took their sick child to a hospital where the parents were told the child needed surgery, so they took the child to another hospital for a second opinion, only to have their child forcibly taken from them by police and Child Protective Services! Near Boston, heavily armed police searched all homes in a large area without search warrants looking for an alleged terrorist! The civil rights violations against private citizens are stacking up at an ever increasing rate with no end in sight, and I have to ask you this question: When the hell are we going to stop protesting and start shooting those bastards?
The murdered and wounded students at Kent State were right to protest, but their brethren had also begun using more and more violence to force the government to obey their oaths. What they got in return was overwhelming violence, whether intended or not, and they still didn't force the government to tow the constitutional line. All they did was continue to protest peacefully after May 4, 1970, accomplishing nothing. Our government finally ended the Vietnam War on their own terms and when they themselves had had enough, and not because so many of our citizens demanded it. Think about that for a moment.
John F. Kennedy correctly stated that those who make peaceful resolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable. The Government of the United States has stopped listening to the people, preferring the counsel of corporations, bankers and elitist socialist revolutionaries. They maintain the general right of free speech and free expression only because it serves as a means to prevent violent revolution because so many Americans still think they can accomplish something by demonstrating, protesting and whatnot. If our people keep writing letters, speaking out and joining groups like the NRA and the Tea Party, the government knows they aren't preparing for war because they still think peaceful resolution is possible. It is not!
What I am going to tell you is this: Don't waste another minute writing letters trying to persuade your politicians to do the right and legal thing because they are no longer listening to you. They will answer your letters & write nice things just to bullshit you along, but they are intent upon doing what they are doing, and the Constitution be damned! Your freedom, your civil rights and your Constitution are over. What I'm telling you is that it is way past time to get together and shoot the bastards, and we'd better do it soon before they shoot us all down separately like they did those students at Kent State.
Carl F. Worden
From: Carl Worden
