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In reply to the discussion: Utah soccer referee Ricardo Portillo dies week after being punched [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)don't forget- it was NOT a peaceful protest. and there were many scenerios floating around that made it convienient to blame the national guard (who were just kids too in most cases)
however, NO murder conviction was found, and there was a person named who might or might not have been the one to yell fire who was NOT any part of the National Guard nor an innocent student.
(for the most part people seem to remember a song about the event as opposed to the facts of the case which didn't rhyme like the song did.)
It was not fun and games protest.
and of course, conspiracy theorists have had wanted to blame the National guard time and again and the tapes show a possible shot was fired before they took the first shot.
(and NO charge of murder was ever found, and people wrongly continue to call it that.)
It does seem that that Norman plant might have been to blame more than others, and he was not a member of the national guard whatsoever, so one can't blame the state national guard.
as always conspiracy theories.
The person who killed the ref should be jailed as an adult for the murder.
And no one should make excuses for them because someone might not like authority.
It's called responsibity.
and no one is forgetting about or condoning what happened.
Just who is being blamed.
It would be more realistic to blame President Nixon than to blame the national guard.
If one remembers about Vietnam, the troops were wrongly blamed and the public took it out on the troops after the war ended under Nixon.
One no longer blames the troops.
and there hasn't been another National Guard episode like that, because training was done to insure never again would it happen, and it hasn't.
to recap- NO ONE is saying it didn't happen. Just that the blaming of the state National Guard troops was not fair thing to do if someone in the crowd who was either a professional or an anarchist was the first one to do the firing. No one should have been killed
however- there were NO charges of Murder that were successful no matter how it don't fit the agenda. It is a very important legal term that just doesn't exist in that case.