Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: TechNICA a correction Message-ID: <152@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 09:22:21 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxii.152 Posted: Fri Jul 5 09:22:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 10:56:03 EDT References: <653@ihlpg.UUCP> <1340233@acf4.UUCP>, <487@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 59 It certainly is refreshing to see that Ken Perlow has not lost his naive outlook on life. Soviets are not Mongols. What a line. If it weren't for guys like Perlow to be the appologists for the soviets, the net would be a dull place. I'm glad that the world supply of rose-colored glasses has not diminished and that Mondale supporters are still up to their necks in Reagan bashing. Next thing we know, Ken will be calling for a recount of the election. Makes life exciting to think that there are no baddies anywhere. Perhaps Ken should post his writings to net.jokes, they certainly have been good for a laugh. Or better yet, he and Rich Rosen could set up a dirrect line between each other and they could both keep telling each other how perfect everything is in the world with the soviets around. I don't know what we could call their philosophies, but they sure give true liberals a bad name. Perhaps they could be called "rosies" to match their outlooks on life. Well, Ken, I don't know if you realize this or not, but I don't know of anyone who thinks that the average Ivan Lunchpail is any kind of threat or any different than our own Fred Factoryface. They just live in two different areas of the world. What folks get upset about is the actions of that 2 or 3 percent of the soviets who do want to bash the US of A. It is that small percentage who are in control Ken. It is that small percentage who are willing to do anything possible to get one up on the US. It is that small percentage who see to it that they get the technical knowledge through their flunkies around the world. It is that small percentage who set up groups like technica or whatever to skim off the information. It is that small percentage who are screwing up the lives of countless millions of people including Ivan Lunchpail. Take off the glasses Perlow. Stop appologizing for every soviet action. I would be interested in hearing how you explain away the soviet attitude towards soviet jewery. Could you further explain to us your reaction to the East German terrorist training camp? Perhaps you could further enlighten us with your preception of the arming of the Syrians with the only antiaircraft weapons ever placed outside soviet borders (and this before the US ever became involved in the ME). Maybe, when you have finished appologizing for those actions, you could assuage our feelings about why the soviets are maintaining a million man standing army on the Chinese border? Or perhaps you would care to enlighten us as to why the soviets are bombing and straffing Afgan mountain folk into oblivion? Don't bother to answer if all you are going to say is "Well, the US is doing thus and so, so it's OK for the soviets." That kind of argument won't wash. Remember, if it's not Ok for the US, then perhaps it's not OK for the soviets. On the other hand, if you are going to appologize for soviet actions, then I can appologize for US actions. Right? "ROSE COLORED GLASSES FOR SALE" Send $9.95 to Ken Perlow in care of this network. Allow 20 years for delivery. You too can see the soviets as a benign, loving giant who only wants to cuddle the world. Pay no attention to the cracking sounds you may hear, that's only your neck being crushed under the boot. T. C. Wheeler