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From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett)
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Subject: Friends of the C.C.C.P.
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Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 13:58:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 13:58:02 1983
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There were three good reasons to invade Grenada.  Each of them are
sufficient: (1) At the request of concerned neighbors, (2) To protect
the lives of Americans, (3) To discourage Communism there and elsewhere.

The first reason is easily accepted; it comes under the heading of
"helping our friends."

The second reason has been criticized for lack of evidence.  No Americans
were executed, none were even siezed.  (They were merely to be shot dead
should they venture outdoors.)  Perhaps we should have waited, and
negotiated their evacuation like President Carter did in his day.
Regardless of the degree of the threat to the Americans there, they are
today all safe and relieved to be so.

The third reason, of course, is the most persuasive to those who have
an intuitive grasp of "freedom".  Freedom in the sense that many of
those under the domination of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party hanker for.

A General Comment To The Critics:

To those who, in the open-minded manner, arrive at conclusions surprising
similar to the conventional wisdom at the Kremlin, I ask:  To what extent,
would you estimate, does your publicized hatred of the USA assist in the
goals and aspirations of all members of the CCCP?  Or, perhaps we should
back-up one step and ask: Does it worry you that you sound like a Kremlin
bureaucrat when you liken Grenada with Afghanistan, when you recommend
subscribing to a Socialist rag, when you defame the institutions of the
USA?  To resist that question is to reveal an embarassing ignorance
about the ruling class of the USSR: take the time and discover how
at home you feel with their views on the World--listen to your echo as
you read Pravda.  And then be bold: Educate yourself as to their mission
in life.  Believe them when the CCCP says "world domination", because they
say it with evangelical enthusiasm, and they have demonstrated an iterative
process to accomplish the goal.

It doesn't require you change your registration to Republican to realize
the only opposition to the Soviet way of life is the American.  And your
right of vocal complaint and bitterness toward your own Government is
obtained from that opposition.  So kindly be aware of this opposition and
note well who bought the rope you are hanging yourself with.