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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 23:16:15 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 24 23:16:15 1985
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>Reagan might be able to wander safely in the US if he did the same
>things as Castro. Namely:
> 
>  a) kill or imprison people with opposing political views
>  b) send criminals and mental patients to some other country
>     as Castro did in the Mariel exodus.
> 
>Mr. Taylor, have you ever wondered why so many people wanted to leave
>Cuba during the Mariel exodus? Have you heard or seen hoards of people
>forsaking their homes and friends to flee oppression in the US?
> 
If (a) were true, the population of Cuba would be largely in prison
or greatly depleted, unless most people agreed with Castro.  If both
(b) and the implications of the next sentence are true, then the
answer to (b) is already given.

As to the final sentence, the answer is YES (presuming you mean hordes,
since I haven't heard of US people stashing away other people since 
slavery was abolished). Examples (old) the Underground railway of slave
days; (newer) McCarthy times; (relatively recent) VietNam. Lots of people
have fled oppression in the US to live in Canada, just as they have fled
oppression elsewhere to come to the USA.  It's all a question of how
you see the world as to whether you agree those people were actually
oppressed. They thought they were.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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