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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 12:41:39 EST
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> Jeff, Jeff, Vieques has been a naval target range since 1912.  The
> folks living on the island are squatters.  The Navy has been trying
> to get them out for years.  When the navy began using the area as
> a aircraft range in 1968, they wanted the squatters out so they
> wouldn't get wasted by stray bombs and missles.  The squatters
> managed to stay, but were moved to another part of the island
> to protect them better.  THERE WAS NO ONE ON THE ISLAND WHEN THE
> NAVY BEGAN USING IT AS A RANGE.  At least get the story correct
> before condeming the government.
> T. C. Wheeler

Hm.  I'll look into this a little more formally, as my previous info was
based on discussions with Puerto Ricans.  It seems a little funny that
people would want to squat on an island that had been declared a firing
range unless they had been living there for a while.  Time for a trip to
the library.  In the meantime, you might practice typing `condemning'
( <-- unwarrented personal attack ).

``...I reply that since war is not an occupation by which a man [or woman]
can at all times make an honorable living, it ought not to be followed
as a business by anyone but a prince or a governor of a commonwealth; and
if he is a wise man, he will not allow any of his subjects or citizens to
make that his only profession -- indeed, no good man ever did, for surely
no one can be called a good man who, in order to support himself, takes up
a profession that obliges him at all times to be rapacious, fraudulent,
and cruel, as of course must be all of those -- no matter what their rank --
who make a trade of war.''

				Niccolo Machiavelli, *The Art of War*, 1521,
				the first systematic expression of support
				for people's militias in modern times

Para la defensa de la verdad, jeff