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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Hypocrisy
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 14:24:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 14:24:32 1984
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>Bob Brown writes:
>   >
>   >...... our Communist friends have quite a record:
>   >
>   >	Lenin		? 
>   >
>   >
>   >	Stalin 		2-3 million Ukranians starved  1930's
>   >	Stalin		10 million ? purges and death lists
>   >
>   >	Mao		30 to 50 million ? Nobody knows for sure.
>   >
>   >	Pol Pot		2.5 million Cambodians
>   >
>   >Anybody know of some I missed ? 
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Yeah, I know of some you missed:
>
>       Johnson
>       Nixon      2 million Vietnamese, 50,000 Americans
>
>       Reagan     40,000 Salvadoran victims of death squads
>                  that are part of government forces armed
>                  and trained by the Reagan regime.
>
>
>   Flame on self-righteous ones!
>
>                      Andy Berman
>

Whenever I see commentary of this type, I'm at a loss to know what it
is supposed to mean.  Does it mean that:

1) They're no worse than us
2) We're OK
3) Therefore, They're OK

or does it mean that:

1) We're no better than they are
2) They're no good
3) Therefore, we're no good

...?

Comparing their behavior to ours does not diminish its (their) loathsomeness
even one little bit.  However, at least in this country, we have a right to 
make that comparison without being shipped off to a Gulag.
-- 

                               Bob Fishell
                               ihnp4!ihu1g!fish