Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: One for our side Message-ID: <1660@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 12:41:39 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1660 Posted: Wed Nov 6 12:41:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 20:50:34 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> <1385@ihlpg.UUCP>, <1609@uwmacc.UUCP> <266@pyuxii.UUCP> Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 33 > 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