From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: another topic - (nf)
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.321
Posted: Fri Apr 22 16:24:45 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 05:59:15 1983
References: hp-pcd.936 inuxd.283


	I would venture a guess that a few centuries of worldwide
	Communist "peace", ala that now known in Cambodia, would be just
	about equivalent to a NUCLEAR WAR.

There's Cambodia, and there's China, and there's the Soviet Union.  I
think the human race could survive a few centuries of Soviet-style society.
It would not be at all a nice society, but it would survive.

	Just imagine those hoodlums with total control, and nowhere for
	us to hide.  Imagine their geneticengineering, satellites containing
	behavioral transmitters tuned to implants for pleasure or pain.

Sorry, this sounds like paranoid raving to me.  Total control?  They can't
even control alcoholism in the Soviet Union.  As I said, it's a lot more
control over than the individual than any reasonable person can stomach,
but it's not as if they plant little mind control devices in your brain.

	I would thus think that with the sainted successors of Marx and Lenin
	and Stalin in total power, that the net effect on the race and on
	the planet would be about the same as nuclear war.

I won't go into the argument about whether Marx == Lenin == Stalin.  It's not
really worth my time.

	Thankfully, a recent poll of Americans, conducted by the U. of Mass.,
	shows that a majority of us in the US woul rather fight an all-out
	nuclear war that submit to those barbarians.  And a full third would
	rather for us and them, plus most everyone else, to be killed rather
	than yield.

Who asked me whether I wanted this wonderful 1/3 of the American public to
decide when I should want to live and when I should want to die?  Who gives
them the right to decide that I should die rather than live in a Soviet-style
state?

	As they say on my favorite license plate, real Americans believe in
	"LIVE FREE OR DIE!"

Right.  And, of course, the Un-American Activities Committee will deal with
those who DON'T believe in "Live free or die!"  I might say that real Americans
don't believe in declaring that people who don't agree with their beliefs
100% as not being real Americans...

	Flame on, lefties.  TYour side of the world and your tired, old
	cliched rhetoric is on its way out.  Hope I can stick around to
	throw in the final shovelful of dirt when the USSR and its
	sympathizers finally feel the wrath of those they oppress.

"Your" side of the world?  DREAM ON!  Sorry, there are a wide variety of
left-wing views (by golly, there are even left-wing sounding articles in
Inquiry magazine, not exactly known as a Commie rag, you know); lumping
all leftists together is as stupid as lumping George Will, Jerry Falwell,
Ralph DePugh (of Minutemen fame), William F. Buckley, etc. together.
I, too, look forward to the day when there are no states like the Soviet
Union.  Or like El Salvador.  Or like Indonesia.  Or like South Africa.
Or...

I prefer the "/bin/mail" interface to "readnews" (please, no flames, I find
the idea that any command I type DOESN'T refer to the last message annoying),
so I can't say I'll just develop the reflex to hit "n" when I see anything
from Mr. Andrews.  However, as I said on an earlier occasion, when you
blast away without aiming, you often just shoot yourself in the foot.

					Guy Harris
					RLG Corporation
					{seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!guy