Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Innocent Sandanistas Message-ID: <999@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 22:08:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxq.999 Posted: Mon Jun 11 22:08:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 05:03:29 EDT References: <793@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 68 -- [from T C Wheeler] >> Ken P says that Ed Asner is no flaming leftist. A very curious >> claim indeed. I would certainly hate to see what he considers >> a flaming leftist if Asner is to the right. The image of >> Lucifer comes to mind, but not being into religion, it fades. That's right, Asner is no flaming leftist. I'm sure he is a liberal, and probably a democratic socialist. What are you saying, T.C., everyone to the left of Walter Mondale is a Commie? >> In case you are wondering Perlow, the Sandinistas would very >> much like to aquire certain territories now under the government >> of Honduras. This argument has been seething for 100 years. I wasn't wondering, I know. The eastern end of the Honduras-Nicaragua border has been disputed for a long time. >> When the Sandies came to power, the vowed to take certain areas >> of Honduras and El Salvador. Oh, El Salvador, too? They have no border with Salvador. References, please. >> Where now is the threat of imminent invasion? From the CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries. (You knew that.) >> Further, why are the ships gathered at >> the docks of Honduras, not off-loading food and medical supplies >> instead of arms, the most common complaint of the people >> on the streets of Honduras? And, have you noticed the registry >> of those ships? What does this mean? These questions make no sense. Calm down. >> If the Sandies are so damned innocent, why are >> they gathering offensive weapons instead of defensive weapons? >> Would that things could be so liberally simple. Try looking >> beyond the simplistic liberal reports and discover what is >> behind the Sandanista revolution. Innocent farmers they are >> not. >> T. C. Wheeler T. C. here thinks I'm to the left of Lucifer, or Asner, or somebody, so his mind races on--I therefore support the Sandanistas unequivocally, and Moscow too, huh? Talk about liberally simple. Who says the Sandanistas are innocent? The reports I believe most are first hand, from a guy who is closer to libertarian than anything else. Also speaks fluent Spanish. Well T.C., you seem to know a lot about Nicaragua yourself, so tell us what a great guy Somoza was. Also which weapons are offensive instead of defensive. I'm sure the Sandanistas have some tricks up their sleeves--they'd hardly have stood up against the CIA without them. Innocent farmers they are not, and innocent bystanders we are not. If you've got facts, let's see them. The situation is obviously very complex. That's what makes it so damned interesting. Uh, oh, Lucifer again. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 11 Jun 84 [23 Prairial An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***