Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!todd From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: American Hostages Message-ID: <343@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:26:07 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.343 Posted: Thu Aug 22 11:26:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:14:45 EDT References: <1042@ihlpg.UUCP> <185@pyuxii.UUCP> <11045@rochester.UUCP> <1399@uwmacc.UUCP> <333@SCIRTP.UUCP> <726@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP <361@rti-sel22 Aug 85 10:26:07 EST Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 12 > >On Americans in war zones deserving what they get: Am I missing something? These hostages knowingly put themselves in positions of danger. They did so because they felt it was one of the only ways to combat a condition they felt was unjust. The group (Witnesses for Peace) is not asking for anyone to pity their plight at the hands of the contras that held them, they are demonstrating that perhaps our "founding father" equivilents are less than noble. -todd jones