I lived inside the riot zone during the first LA riot in 1965. A 19-year-old national guardsman lived in our apartment building. During the curfew, he was forced to shoot a rioter who tried to break through the national guard barriers. It’s something he never got over. He was also a victim.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > On Aug 25, 2025, at 12:05 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 8/25/25 12:42 pm, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> A friend of mine in DC describes it as cosplay. Thank goodness they are so >> incompetent. > ironic that this was almost precisely my observation during the Jan 6 > insurrection... and got a brush-back. > > I've a friend who was a National Guardsman at Kent State... he wasn't present > for the shooting but was there for the operation and remembers acutely how > bizarre it was to have one line of 18 year olds pitted against another. His > side had live ammo, the other side had daisies to put in the gun barrels ( > not a Kent State 1970 moment, but of the era 1967 and spirit). > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power_(photograph) > > A good reminder that even incompetent Cosplay can get out of hand? > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings > > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... > --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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