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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Don"t blame me (Clinic Bombing)
Message-ID: <1992@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:22:34 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.1992
Posted: Fri Dec  7 02:22:34 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:28:57 EST
References: <149@nybcb.UUCP> <29200168@uiucdcs.UUCP> <688@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Summary: 

In article <688@amdahl.UUCP> muth@amdahl.UUCP (John A. Muth) writes:

>If you want to talk about how bad Reagan is, how about this item from
>the news.
>
>    "Organized Bombing of Abortion Clinics is NOT Terrorism, says FBI"
>

Suddenly, everyone seems to be noticing this pecadillo of the Reagan
administration.  In today's Wall Street Journal there was a "Viewpoint"
on this subject.  The closing sentence said: "If the administration very
obviously reserves 'terrorist' as an epithet for socio-political violence
it dislikes, then the conclusion must be that there are forms of socio-
political violence--such as anti-abortion bombings--that it views in a
tolerant and sympathetic light, and which it refuses to denounce."

I remember thinking during the debates, when Reagan mentioned terrorism,
that Mondale ought to have jumped on Reagan's tacit encouragement of
clinic bombings.  But he let that opportunity go by, as he did a few
other opportunities that I'd have liked to see him use.  Maybe it wouldn't
have changed the outcome, but it would have made more explicit exactly
what people were voting for.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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