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Yankee06
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The Answer
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12/4/2009 12:11:48 PM
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M-RET, -It's an answer; ...not sure it's the answer.
-Traininng: Yes, TRADOC stopped the Garden Plot (anti-riot) training in teh mid-to-late 70's, because the threat ended. There were no more protestor-riots because the protesters had won.
-Kent State: yes, the troops felt threatened. So what. All troops in a tactical/combat situation better feel threatened. Remember, all of the students killed and most of the wounded were more than a football field length away when shot. Were the troops ill trained? Yes ( maybe TRADOC should start trainnig again)! Were the guns loaded? Yes. There are times that the guns have to be loaded. For riot control to work , rioters have to believe they will be hurt. That "hurt" occurs on an escalation spectrum that ends in death. That's just how the system works. -1st and 2nd Amendments; you are absolutly correct. mnay it ever be so.
-The heartlands; are the heartlands free of corruption and corrosion? I think not. We all live in Alabama; it's pretty much heartland, at least politically. Look around. Mayors are going to prison and governors are in prison.
I agree, most agree, that something is wrong with our country; I believe it is getting worse and has been for the last two decades. The present administration is pushiing us over the line form our traditional national identity to a new one of some aberration of socialism. The only successful way to fight it is locally at the political grass roots and nationally at the ballot box.
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