I was at People’s Park before Reagan sent in the troops. If Reagan was President, and wanted to go into Syria, he would get almost every conservative vote in Parlaiment. The Queen gave him medals for his war-like ways. Making war on peaceful hippies made him squeal with joy. He loved telling Thatcher how he beat the Peaceniks with soldiers with bayonets on their rifles.
Only a Traitor, or Dictator like the leader of Syria, would use troops on his own people, then, stand before a foreign monarch and receive a medal for terrorizing the children of common Americans. Reagan’s troops used massive amounts of tear gas, a chemical agent. He had it sprayed down on students from a helicopter.
If the hippies were armed, and fought back, then Regan would have employed lethal nerve gas. Being a Big Winner was all that mattered to him. He rode on the backs of other people’s children into power.
How many dictator-monarchs use Thatcher-Reagan as a model of oppression?
“Get tough with un-armed demonstrators. Show them no mercy!”
Jon Presco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath
In 1989, Reagan was made an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, one of the highest British orders (this entitled him to the use of the post-nominal letters “GCB” but, by not being the citizen of a Commonwealth realm, not to be known as “Sir Ronald Reagan”); only two American presidents have received this honor, Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
In Reagan’s campaign, he emphasized two main themes: “to send the welfare bums back to work”, and, in reference to burgeoning anti-war and anti-establishment student protests at the University of California at Berkeley, “to clean up the mess at Berkeley”.[80] Ronald Reagan accomplished in 1966, what US Senator William F. Knowland in 1958 and former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in 1962 had tried; He was elected, defeating two-term governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, and was sworn in on January 2, 1967. In his first term, he froze government hiring and approved tax hikes to balance the budget.[81]
Shortly after the beginning of his term, Reagan tested the presidential waters in 1968 as part of a “Stop Nixon” movement, hoping to cut into Nixon’s Southern support[82] and be a compromise candidate[83] if neither Nixon nor second-place Nelson Rockefeller received enough delegates to win on the first ballot at the Republican convention. However, by the time of the convention Nixon had 692 delegate votes, 25 more than he needed to secure the nomination, followed by Rockefeller with Reagan in third place.[82]
Reagan was involved in high-profile conflicts with the protest movements of the era. On May 15, 1969, during the People’s Park protests at UC Berkeley, Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol and other officers to quell the protests, in an incident that became known as “Bloody Thursday”, resulting in the death of student James Rector and the blinding of carpenter Alan Blanchard.[84][85] Reagan then called out 2,200 state National Guard troops to occupy the city of Berkeley for two weeks to crack down on the protesters.[84] A year after “Bloody Thursday”, Reagan responded to questions about campus protest movements saying, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No more appeasement.”[86] When the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley and demanded the distribution of food to the poor, Reagan joked, “It’s just too bad we can’t have an epidemic of botulism.”[87]
The Reagans meeting with then-President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon in July 1970
Early in 1967, the national debate on abortion was beginning. Democratic California state senator Anthony Beilenson introduced the “Therapeutic Abortion Act”, in an effort to reduce the number of “back-room abortions” performed in California.[84] The State Legislature sent the bill to Reagan’s desk where, after many days of indecision, he signed it.[88] About two million abortions would be performed as a result, most because of a provision in the bill allowing abortions for the well-being of the mother.[88] Reagan had been in office for only four months when he signed the bill, and stated that had he been more experienced as governor, it would not have been signed. After he recognized what he called the “consequences” of the bill, he announced that he was pro-life.[88] He maintained that position later in his political career, writing extensively about abortion
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