Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site flame.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!flame!kay From: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: 'smear' campaign Message-ID: <305@flame.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 18:17:48 EST Article-I.D.: flame.305 Posted: Thu Dec 20 18:17:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 02:35:36 EST References: <6166@mcvax.UUCP> <270@spp2.UUCP> <127@talcott.UUCP> <692@erix.UUCP> <146@talcott.UUCP> <6217@mcvax.UUCP> <173@talcott.UUCP> Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK Lines: 33 {0} 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. -- "But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?" ... mcvax!ukc!flame!kay