As of today we are 54 years removed from the shootings at Kent State University in Ohio. Once again it becomes relevant as protests concerning the Israeli – Palestinian situation are being pushed hard by the corporate media. 

Protests have always been integral to America’s functioning and the right to protest is enshrined in the constitution. Protests must remain peaceful, however. Right wing groups are attempting to exploit these protests trying to make the President look inept. He is on top of the situation

President Biden addresses campus protests:

Right wingers who live in a dreamworld fully detached from reality are also trying to equate the insurrection of January 6th, 2021 as yet another protest within the American tradition of protests. It wasn’t. January 6th was a planned insurrection by the then president with a goal of ending our constitutional democracy.

Since then Republicans have attempted to rewrite history by simply lying about their insurrection. Here we see Senator JD Vance of Ohio lying to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins about the attempted overthrow of our government. Collins ain’t buying what he is selling: