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By Ray Hanania
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It has been 56 years since the student anti-war protests against the Vietnam War at universities around the country that began before the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August 1968. The brutality against protesters then was later called a “police riot” by a national commission.
The student anti-war protests continued as the United States began its humiliating retreat from Vietnam on March 29, 1973, when American combat forces were withdrawn, Saigon did not fall until April 29 and 30, 1975, with the famous image of the last helicopter evacuating people from a Saigon rooftop.
During that period, the Ohio National Guard was called to suppress student anti-war protests on May 4, 1970 at Kent State University.
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Four students were shot and killed. Nine others were injured.
Killed were Jeffrey Miller, who was shot in the mouth while standing in an access road leading into the Prentice Hall parking lot, a distance of approximately 270 feet from the Guard; Allison Krause in the Prentice Hall parking lot, 330 feet from the guard and shot in the left side of her body; William Schroeder was 390 feet from the guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot, shot in the left side of his back; and Sandra Scheuer, about 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when a bullet pierced the left front side of her neck.
Protesters were demonized by elected officials and called Communists, outside agitators and terrorists.
The protests then are the same as the student campus anti-war protests today against the American-funded Israeli government war in Gaza, where more than 34,000 people have been killed, including 20,000 women and children.
Thankfully, so far, students protesting today have not been killed despite the government rage.
But the government response to the protests is a disgrace. The young people of 1968 are the old people of today. What a real shame.
The truth about TikTok and China
Congress is lying to you about why they want to ban TikTok. Read the truth. China has more than $120 billion worth of investments in 40 American states, including those represented by the Congress members seeking to ban TikTok.
Those Congress members don’t want to risk losing those China investments, which help the economy of their states. But they want to fan the flames of anti-China hate by targeting TikTok, which has far less access to public data than the corporate investments China has in their states.
Some of the biggest critics of TikTok have the most investments in their states but don’t want you to know about it because they want those investments.
The real reason they are attacking TikTok is because TikTok is less censored than other social media outlets and gives you unfiltered videos of what is happening around the world, including how America is supporting tyranny under the guise of phony democracy
Tyranny in Orland Park
Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau is one of the most oppressive and thinned-skinned elected officials in the Chicagoland region.
Last week, out of pure pettiness, Pekau removed the signs with the name of former Mayor Frederick T. Owens from the front of the Village Hall, which was named in Owens’ honor back in 1993. He replaced them with several signs that showcase his own name.
Why? One theory is that it was Owens who introduced the village manager government system to the suburb and Pekau was angry that the Owens family worked against his effort to remove it. Pekau’s referendum was defeated in a huge anti-Pekau landslide just over a year ago.
How much longer must Orland Park suffer with this bully in office?
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