Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!teddy!lkk From: lkk@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing Message-ID: <1105@teddy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 13:38:05 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.1105 Posted: Tue Aug 6 13:38:05 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:15:13 EDT References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 42 In article <1659@mnetor.UUCP> fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) writes: >> > Speaking as a relatively independant observer, and one who >actually favours free enterprise, etc. I have noted that the rumours >I hear about the KGB, (and that is all they are, rumours), are very >similar to the rumours I hear about the CIA and the many other >"security" organisations in the US. None of these groups is likely >to let you or I find out what is really going on! Consequently I >suspect that your statement is a result of a slight bias of your own. >Well, there's a lot of that going around and your probably in good >company. > >Cheers, Fred Williams > I'm sorry, but I don't buy this. The activities of the U.S. govt. are almost all aboveboard, while almost everything that the Soviet govt. does is secret. We have a freedom of information act, and a relatively free press. Can you imagine anything like the Church committe hearings on CIA activity in the USSR? There is no independent human rights group that ever thinks to compare Soviet Human rights abuses with those in the U.S. We do know what goes on in the S.U. We [those who study the S.U.] know that the KGB is a veritable Mafia in that country. It is an idependent power base that gives its head much influence. This is not so true now as it was in the early 50's however. Nevertheless, people in the USSR live in TERROR of the KGB. That cannot be said for any police organization in the US (with perhaps a few exceptions in the deep south?). I am not blind to the faults of the U.S. I am highly critical of U.S. society and govt. policy. However I've seen to many communists (including personal acquaintances) make the mistake of believing that one cannot criticize the USSR without seeming like an apologist for everything bad in the US. -- Sport Death, Larry Kolodney (USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc.arpa