From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!cdanderson
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: another topic - (nf)
Article-I.D.: watarts.1803
Posted: Mon May  2 02:41:12 1983
Received: Mon May  2 05:26:46 1983
Reply-To: cdanderson@watarts.uucp (Cameron D. Anderson)
References: dciem.224 uwvax.852

re: Another Topic 
As a Canadian- though not in agreement to our (read US) policies, 
I would also like to see both the USSR and USA blow themselves to 
bits, but not with nuclear weapons thank you. I have no need of the 
resulting
radioactive fallout, EMP, ozone depletion, or 
rampant epidemics. 
   In what sense can anyone in this world claim to be "non-aligned" 
if one is living in and enjoying some of the (perhaps only a few) 
more desirable features of that society you are aligned! It doesn't 
mean one likes the situation -in fact, one can even be actively 
opposing it - but you are still aligned. 
     Perhaps the only way to be non-aligned in an antagonistic 
situation is to be a parasite on it, ready, when it dies, to 
live in the resulting environment. This means that you cannot 
have become dependant upon its offensive features (for eg. 
cheap agricultural products from local or foreign producers). 
     While I, in Canada, am supposedly living in a country of 
peace, non-nuclear principles and a mediator for the world, I 
am all too aware of just how much I am part of an alignment 
with the US; so much so that the first few images are a farce.
We are supplying the US with the guidance systems and (it 
appears) test site for the Cruise missile; allow nuclear 
armed submarines to use our waters off the coast of British 
Columbia (the subs are from Bangor, Wash.); have allowed 
nuclear weapons to be sited in three places in the country; 
and are shipping spent reactor fuel from Ontario to be 
reprocessed, thereby relieving some of the US's current 
plutonium shortage (the Americans then use indigenous 
supplies as the total supply is greater and the government 
of Canada can claim it is living up to its rules of not 
supplying weapons materials from its "Peaceful Atom" projects).
Though not happy with, and fighting, the situation, I can 
hardly call myself non-aligned. To do so would be to allow me 
to cast off the need for action as, Well it isn't me, I'm 
non-aligned.

  Sorry for going on so long, but hoping it was worth it;
           
        Cameron (aligned but fighting it) Anderson