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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: 'smear' campaign
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 21:35:23 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 21:35:23 1984
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Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) wrote:
> I have not seen one positive comment about the U.S. coming from Europe in
> net.politics. [...] But if you really want to have a smear campaign, Mike,
> Steven, Piet, and the rest of you, here goes: ...

To which I (Steven) replied
> I think you may be getting paranoid. I don't remember making one criticism
> of the US in any posting. Maybe I'm wrong and I'd be pleased to be corrected

To which Greg replied
> Read Piet's stuff.  Better yet, I'll show it to you here:
[...A posting from Piet was here...]
> This criticism is so constructive that it almost makes me throw up.  Read
> the rest of Piet's articles, and read the other articles from Holland, the
> articles from Sweden, the articles from Canada, etc.
[...]
> If criticizing governments strikes your fancy, then may I call your
> attention to extremely high death rate in Cambodia, the Cuban troops in
> Ethiopia, or the French arms industry.
> 
> But if you happen to be like Piet and others; if you don't care about all
> of politics, or all the things that the U.S. does, but only care about the
> bad things that the U.S. does; if you only want to be anti-American, then I
> have great contempt for you.

To which I now reply:
I think you may be getting paranoid. I don't remember making one criticism
of the US in any posting. Maybe I'm wrong and I'd be pleased to be corrected.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax