Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: 'smear' campaign Message-ID: <6231@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 21:35:23 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6231 Posted: Sat Dec 8 21:35:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 02:44:00 EST References: <6166@mcvax.UUCP> <270@spp2.UUCP> <127@talcott.UUCP> <692@erix.UUCP> <146@talcott.UUCP> <6217@mcvax.UUCP> <173@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 30 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