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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rumor
Subject: Re: A new theory about flight 007
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 00:50:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 00:50:57 1984
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>>>from Yehoyaqim Martillo:
>>>Electronic surveilance from space is so good nowadays there is little
>>>reason to use a military airplane for most purposes let alone a passenger
>>>airplane when the consequences are rather unpredictable if this passenger
>>>airplane should be shot down.
>
>>But the people on the plane who died are now martyrs.  And the Western
>>culture is based on martyrdom (look at its major religions....).
>
>The Soviet Union makes martyrs daily of Afghanistanis, Refusniks, Soviet
>Human Rights Activists, Soviet Baptists, the Sakharovs, Polish solidarity
>(through surrogates), East Asians (through surrogates) etc. ad infinitum. 
>There is no need for the USA to trick the USSR into creating additional
>martyrs.  If I believed the USA government made such irresponsible use of
>its civilians, I would think about leaving.

Ah, but all these people are not really "full humans", after all they are not
american! (unfortunately, only half-(-:).
The Korean passengers were not american either but there were
enough americans on the plane for america to REALLY get its martyrs.

Sophie Quigley
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