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Subject: Re: Blame the Damn Russians! - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 23:49:54 EDT
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parsec!holt    Sep  1 17:05:00 1983

    In reply to Andy Berman's reply to my original article:

	I DID NOT SAY ALL OF THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO THE
	USSR!!!!!
	
    I won't even say that most of them are.  A good number of the 
problems are due to the actions of the US government and US corporations.
What I didn't get across in the article is that in the US we have the
potential for not causing these kind of problems.  If the US populace
makes enough noise about an issue, then it is a good bet that the people
in Washington and the people on Wall Street will listen and modify their
behavior.  In the USSR, there is no criticism of the government allowed.
If you do criticise it, you are persecuted.  In fact, you can be persecuted
there by the government just for being of a particular ethnic origin.
    Many problems in the world are due to factors outside of the influence 
of either the US or the USSR.
    What I did say was that the USSR is a "bad guy".  I stick by that
statement.  Do "nice guys" shoot down civilian aircraft?????

    Come on Andy Berman, be a little more reasonable in your critiques next
time.  And what's wrong with believing in Santa Claus anyway?  I thought
that all you bleeding heart liberals just believed Uncle Sam to be
Santa Claus.

				Dave Holt
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