Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Thoughts on.. (Shooting Castro vs Reagan) Message-ID: <1658@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 15:22:21 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1658 Posted: Sun Aug 18 15:22:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 20:18:39 EDT References: <416@iham1.UUCP> <1056@ames.UUCP> <146@batman.UUCP> <1040@teddy.UUCP><1652@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Distribution: na Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 32 Summary: >2. Ever think of what might happen to you down there if you shot Castro? You would get shot, probably after a trial, but perhaps earlier. > Now think of happens to you in the US. Some difference, huh? You would get shot, probably after a trial, but perhaps earlier. (Think of Lee Harvey Oswald). What's that got to do with the relative freedom of the leaders to walk around among their people? As for: >1. I bet Castro doesn't go out without his security (even in a nation where > private ownership of guns -all guns- is banned). (here come the flames!!) The fact that Castro can and does wander around more or less alone was a point made by Dan Rather in one of his segments on Cuba a few months ago. (I know -- you think he's a KGB agent, don't you?) Another place were leaders can and do wander around alone is in West Germany. I was myself in a beerhall/restaurant in Munich when Franz Josef Strauss was wandering around glad-handing just after he won a big election victory. His party left, and if there were security men around, they were very un-evident. He joined several tables for a swig of beer, and spoke to us as well (but only in German). -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt