goes around, comes around

...as the hippies used to say. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, when National Guardsmen shot demonstrating students at a university in Ohio, killing four. 

Now here’s a thing. From the Tiananmen Papers: 

In thinking about political reform, Deng added, China should stick with a model of a single National People’s Congress and not go for American style tripartite separation of powers. Student demonstrators had also been met by police and soldiers in the United States, Deng pointed out, but, he said, the Americans were suppressing students and citizens, whereas the Chinese government was putting down counterrevolutionary rioters. 

That was from a speech given by Deng Xiaoping to senior PLA officers, five days after the Tiananmen uprising was suppressed in 1989. In his own way and for his own purposes, Deng always was a quite an avid student of the United States. 

Of course, May 4 has its own significance in recent Chinese history, again involving students.

Comments

[ejh]

Chrissie Hynde was there when the Kent State shootings happened, I believe. One of those facts that sticks in the mind.

[Chris Williams]

And yr man from Devo, says yr man from Devo in boingboing today.