WARNING: Genius at work. I don’t care which Party you raise a flag for, but when you bark about freedom of speech, you gotta take responsibility for the stupidity that comes out. – PB/TK
Republican official Dan Adamini apologizes after calling for ‘another Kent State – Gretel Kauffman Christian Science Monitor Staff
—A Republican official has apologized for calling for “another Kent State” massacre in response to recent university protests.
Dan Adamini, the secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party in Michigan, tweeted that he was “sorry” for a pair of social media posts in which he referenced the infamous fatal 1970 shooting of four unarmed college students by National Guardsmen during an anti-Vietnam War protest, and suggested that a similar incident might be the “only solution” to modern-day protests at the University of California, Berkeley, and elsewhere.
“Violent protesters who shut down free speech? Time for another Kent State,perhaps,” Mr. Adamini wrote in a tweet last Thursday. “One bullet stops a lot of thuggery.” In a similar Facebook post, he added, “They do it because they know there are no consequences yet.”
