[Vision2020] Henry Johnston, Mayor Chaney, and Megaloads

[Ted Moffett]

I watched both the complaint and Mayor Cheney's statement.

It would be shooting fish in a barrel to glorify this tirade of a
complaint with an in-depth response.

But I was horrified by one statement, that denigrates the sacrifices of
many principled protesters during the Vietnam era, who risked their
careers, physical injury, jail and prison, even death, in the effort to
stop a war of atrocity and slaughter on a huge scale:

Johnston stated to Mayor Cheney:

"You set the standard that this Vietnam era disrespect for polite society
can continue..."

Perhaps he's referring to Kent State?  Those national guard soldiers sure
taught those "overgrown children" (as Johnston described the mega-load
protesters), at Kent State a lesson about politeness!  Oh, wait!  You don't
learn anything when your dead...

http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/lewihen.htm

On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of
Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent
State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event
triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and
universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard
Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In *The
Ends of Power*, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State
began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon
administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4th, the shootings
have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions
that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>wrote:

> Greetings Visionaires -
>
> On May 7, 2012, Henry Johnston presented a complaint to the Moscow City
> Council concerning the megaload protestors and Mayor Chaney's recognition,
> in the form of an award on Earth Day, of those protestors.
>
> On May 21, 2012, Mayor Chaney responded to Mr. Johnston's complaints.
>
> Audio and video recordings of the complaint and response may be accessed
> at:
>
> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Highway12/Johnston_050712_Chaney_052112.htm
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares"
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
>
>
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