Late this past week, in an interview with aging gawker at Melania Trump and host of MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” Chris Matthews, Counselor to the President and unofficial propaganda minister Kellyanne Conway reminded us all of a national tragedy that recently has escaped the public’s incredibly short term memory: the massacre at Bowling Green, Kentucky. The sudden renewal of public interest in the event came in the wake of President Donald J. Trump’s executive order temporarily restricting immigration from several Muslim majority countries and halting US acceptance of refugees. The controversial executive order, perhaps an attempt by Trump to honor his infamous campaign proposal of a temporary “Muslim ban,” provoked much discussion among an already heavily divided and polarized American public. Worse, protests at airports meant that air travel was briefly even more miserable an experience than it usually is, an incredible feat that was previously considered impossible to achieve.
On the heels of Trump’s latest controversy, a sleep deprived and increasingly impetuous Kellyanne Conway not surprisingly came under further scrutiny and questioning regarding her boss’s questionable actions. In defense of Trump’s new immigration restrictions while being interviewed (or “interrogated,” as she would describe it) by Chris Matthews, Conway broached the national tragedy at Bowling Green as evidence of the threat that our great nation currently faces from radical Islamic terrorism. In light of recent terror attacks in San Bernardino, Orlando, Manhattan, Minneapolis, and Ohio State University, the carnage seen at Bowling Green had escaped the public’s incredibly short attention span. Now suddenly, Bowling Green was relevant once again.
The normally tranquil and relatively populous city of Bowling Green, Kentucky was rocked by terror and violence last year shortly after 1 AM on February 30th. Out of nowhere, terrorists born and raised in Kentucky that never would’ve even been affected by an immigration ban, went on a shooting rampage that claimed zero lives. Compared with mass shootings in recent years such as at Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech, calling this attack a massacre is a dubious decision, but evidently the liberal media needed an overly dramatic moniker to refer to the event by. Regardless, this was a tragedy by any definition of the term, and we must keep all zero victims in our hearts and prayers. This past Saturday night, a massive candlelight vigil was held right here in State College on South Allen Street, with the entire road being closed down in honor of this event (shown in photo above).
In addition, we must remember to honor the heroes whom sacrificed so much to save the lives of complete and total strangers during this tragic time in our nation’s history. Brave men and women in uniform put their lives on the line when the time for action came. Perhaps most prominent among them was civil rights leader Frederick Douglass, whom, as Mr. Trump recently pointed out as part of Black History Month, more and more people are becoming aware of nowadays. We hope that Conway’s recent reminder of the Bowling Green massacre will encourage more people to learn about the life and achievements of the always commendable Douglass.
Elsewhere in our nation this past week, extraordinary chaos and carnage occurred on the usually quiet campus of UC Berkeley. Normally peaceful college students suddenly turned into barbaric savages in the blink of an eye. It was initially reported that the thuggish riots were in response to the UC Berkeley College Republicans inviting over highly controversial conservative writer, provocateur, and Internet troll Milo Yiannopoulos as a guest speaker. Yiannopoulos has drawn heavy negative criticism in recent years for his fiery rhetoric toward a transgender student at the University of Wisconsin, his incessant trolling of easily triggered American actress Leslie Jones, and his constant bragging about the extraordinary number of black cocks that he has sucked throughout his tours as a college guest speaker. However, it was later confirmed that the riots were merely immature thugs attempting to express their anger and sorrow at the Bowling Green massacre in what they perceived as a “socially acceptable” manner. While the rioters may not be at all a good example, they reminded us all this past week to always keep in mind all those that we lost on that fateful day at Bowling Green.
