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From: berman@ihuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: KAL 007 and Moral Consistency
Message-ID: <514@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 13:36:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  4 13:36:57 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Sep-83 20:29:24 EDT
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Over 40,000 Salvadorans have been killed in that country's civil war
in the last 3 years. Amnesty International and others have documented
that the overwhelming majority of these deaths are killings of
civilians at the hands of Salvadoran government-backed right-wing
death squads. 

A recent addition to the death toll comes from phosphorus
bombings of villages in the zones of rebel control.
The bombs and planes and pilot training are paid for by
you and I.

A similar situation has been occuring in Guatemala.

The death toll is approximately one KAL 007 PER WEEK, WEEK AFTER
WEEK AFTER WEEK.

Those deaths would not have occurred nor continue to occur if the
Reagan Administration would cease proping up unpopluar military
regimes whose historical time is passed.

Where, O where is the comdemnation from those who moralize so
against the KAL incident?


For certain one horror does not excuse another, but those
who find it so opportune and convenient to condemn the Soviet
Government would do well to use equal standards 
concerning the horrors we presumably could do something about.

Andy Berman