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Entry: Remembering Kent State: The President as Street Thug Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/kent_state_the_president_as_street_thug#1426 Post contents: "Thereby solidarity is maintained with both the ‘real’ construction workers as well as the ‘peaceful demonstrators.’" I think you are right. I am a working class Irish American; no amount of education will ever stop my betters from looking under my fingernails for the honest dirt of the railroad worker. In the '70s I had a strong feeling (call it illusion if you will) that working people were being manipulated into playing a public role opposed to their own inner sense of who they are. Not the quotation marks around 'peaceful.' Is it the implication that even a peaceful demonstration is to be treated as an act of war? That is not America. My America. Sent at: 2008 08 30