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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#1431 Post contents: <i>In defense of the troops, it is truly foolish to mess with armed soldiers.</i> Indeed. I find that people from Massachusetts when I point out to them that Crispus Attucks and the other victims of the Boston Massacre were not so much martyrs for liberty as morons who were competing for the Darwin Award for 1770. On the other hand, the men of Baltimore who behaved similarly on April 19, 1861 (and actually managed to kill a few of the Massachusetts militiamen), were similarly bucking for the Darwin Award of that year. People in Massachusetts talk about how those attacking their troops were an unruly, lawless mob--which they were--but somehow don't seem to realize that the victims of the Boston Massacre were pretty much the same thing. And while Marylanders may like to sing about avenging "the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore," I can't help thinking that a smarter course of action would be, next time, not to throw rocks at kids who are scared out of their wits but happen to be carrying firearms--and who lack the discipline of combat-experienced troops. Sent at: 2008 09 07