Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!unc!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.christian Subject: Re: American Hostages Message-ID: <346@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 09:49:36 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.346 Posted: Mon Aug 12 09:49:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:34:49 EDT References: <1042@ihlpg.UUCP> <710@cvl.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Distribution: net Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 31 Xref: linus net.politics:9761 net.religion.christian:1052 In article <710@cvl.UUCP> arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross) writes: [Andy Berman] >> For those who haven't heard, today's news reports indicate that >> the Nicaraguan contras have kidnapped and are holding hostage 29 American >> religious workers ... [Ari Gross] > Glad to know the Sandinista thugs were democratically elected. >But then , haven't you heard, so was Michael Gorbachev -- or have >you cancelled your subscription to Pravda ??? And I thought we buried Joe McCarthy years ago. I deeply resent, Mr. Gross, the way you and your 'buddies' on the right automatically condemn anyone to the left of Bill Buckley as a Bad American with ties to the Soviet Block. I, too, am a taxpayer and a voter in this country and intend to fight the attempts of a vocal minority to force an ultraconservative agenda on this country with my votes and political contributions. I find the left's breast-beating over people who deliberately placed themselves in a situation where they KNEW they would probably be kidnapped or worse by the Contras as naive as their bemoaning the murders of the Communist Workers Party members in Greensboro by the Klan a few years back (sane people do NOT hold a 'Death to the Klan' rally in Klan country!). This is no cause for your suggesting that someone you disagree with might be a Communist, however. I find your smug condemnation of anyone who disagrees with your politics revolting, Mr. Gross. You and your kind are no better Americans than those of us with more liberal aspirations. -- Bill Ingogly