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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Friends of the C.C.C.P.
Message-ID: <3649@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 16:57:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 16:57:41 1983
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[..]
 Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute.... I was one of the first to post
to this net that while I agree with rabbit!jj I don't see a whole lot of
differance between what we did in Grenada and the Soviets did in Afghan-
istan, except that Afghanistan is a lot closer (physically) to them than
Grenada is to us.

 I have been a registered Republican since 1972 and voted for both Nixxon
and Ford.  Politically I find myself somewhere between Ronald Reagan and
Smith Hempstone (for the unwashed multitude S.H. is editor of the Washington
Times, a *very* conservative newspaper).

 I don't see where the mindset of the power-class in the Kremlin has one
whit to do with my ability to see the truth and speak out.  Or are you
suggesting that we must adopt symmetrical lies?  This smacks of relative
morality/situation ethics and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  Sure we
will sell them the rope to hang us, but we are in business to sell rope.
Like gun control, the moral responsibility falls on the human user, not
on the inanimate object...

Ben Cranston       ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben       zben@umd2.ARPA