Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’

Journalist Ken Klippenstein just reported that the White House has laid the groundwork for utilizing the Insurrection Act  by labeling the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests an  insurrection, and that Trump’s “border czar” just told Fox News, “We’re gonna bring National Guard in tonight.”

Read Klippenstein’s full article Breaking: National Guard to Put Down LA Protests. And when you’re done, here are the lyrics to Ohio, the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song about the National Guard murdering Kent State students on May 4, 1970. Their crime? Protesting the Vietnam War.

 

Ohio

Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’
Four dead in OhioGotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-naGotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’
Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio (four dead)
Four dead in Ohio (four)
Four dead in Ohio (how many?)
Four dead in Ohio (how many more?)

Four dead in Ohio (why?)
Four dead in Ohio (oh)
Four dead in Ohio (four)
Four dead in Ohio (why?)

Four dead in Ohio (why?)
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio

It’s a reach, I know

‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming,
and look brighter when we come.     
  ~ Lord Byron

Columbus, OH. August 23, 2019.

I’m quite sure the gleam in this chipmunk’s eye had less to do with me than bird seed on the ground. Still, that bright eye can’t be denied.