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From: mike@hpfclk.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ethics / Foreign Policy - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 03:39:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 03:39:36 1983
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hpfclk!mike    Oct 10 13:22:00 1983

  I believe the point to be an objective one.  No government can
  be perfect.  The premise for our government is that it is the people
  who choose.  We have the freedom to express ourselves.  We can choose
  those we wish to represent us.  When those in power fail in their appointed
  duties we can choose to fire them.  Each individual is resposible for 
  thinking, for judging, and voicing opinions.  The actions taken by our 
  government is supposed to be tied the morals of the people.
  A nation is only as moral as its people are responsible for its actions.
  In the Soviet Union, there is little freedom of expression, freedom to
  consider facts objectively, freedom to judge, or freedom to disagree with
  state policy.  The act of murder is not judged evil by the Soviet 
  government, and its people are not free to express distaste with their
  leaders.  The soviet leaders answer to no one.  I rest my case.

					      
					      Michael Bishop
					      hplabs!hpfcla!hpfclk!mike