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From: mcgeer@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Rick McGeer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 03:39:56 EST
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In article <1606@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) writes:
[on the deparadations by the United States of various Latin American nations]
>Puerto Rico, 1968-present, Navy occupation and bombardment of the island
>		of Vieques, destroying fish and other national resources
						      ^^^^^^^^

Good God, even Myers can't possibly believe this.  The last time I looked,
Puerto Rico was part of the United States -- proposed for statehood by at
least one US President (Gerald Ford, in the State of the Union address, 1977),
and the statehood party consistently wins gubernatorial elections.  It is, I
suppose, reasonable to debate the Navy's choice of practice bombing ranges,
but I hardly think that the United States is committing outrages on Latin
America by bombing US territory.  Myers might as well argue that the
bombardment of Kahoolawe is an outrage upon the peoples of the Pacific.

					-- Rick.