Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rumor Subject: Re: A new theory about flight 007 Message-ID: <8091@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 00:50:57 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.8091 Posted: Thu Jun 21 00:50:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:31:12 EDT References: <2177@mit-eddie.UUCP> <593@ihuxt.UUCP> <2196@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <599@ihuxt.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 >>>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 ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley