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From: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: 'smear' campaign
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 18:17:48 EST
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Greg Kuperberg says:
>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.

Certainly, Greg, please do call our European attention to these things.
It doesn't matter whether it's the US, the UK, the USSR, or anywhere else
that's doing them, they should be brought before us so that people can read,
learn, comment, and maybe try to DO something about it.

I don't think anyone who reads this could honestly say that their Government
has NEVER done anything they would be ashamed of; it would be more shameful
if, as you seem to imply, because {C, UN*X, chips, USENET, ...} were all
initiated in the US, that the US should be given a position of immunity
with regard to criticism via {C, UN*X, chips, USENET, ...}.

I don't see the nationalities of USENET contributors as being anything of
great importance. This is, surely, an institution that transcends such
boundaries. The fact that criticism of a government comes from a contributor
whose allegiance (?) is not to that government should not make that 
criticism more or less valid in the eyes of the net.

I don't post often to this newsgroup, though I read it; it takes a good deal
to get me to brave the possible combustion that might ensue.

							Kay.


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