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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Schultz on International Terrorism
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 10:30:21 EST
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I found Schultz's announcement of a US policy to fight terrorism with
terrorism (never mind the cost to innocent civilians caught in the crossfire)
horrifying.  What does he think that we are defending that is valuable enough
to justify our sinking to the level of the worst of our enemies?

Shortly afterward I heard something which, if true, is even more frightening.
John Stockwell, former CIA section head in Angola, recently spoke on the UT
campus.  While the press has been focusing on the implications of Schultz's
announcement in places like Lebanon, Stockwell is convinced that the Reagan
administration intends to follow this policy domestically as well.  That would
mean that if your next door neighbor (not to mention if you yourself) wound up
on a CIA list of alleged terrorists, you and everybody within shrapnel range
could be blown away in a pre-emptive strike -- any time, without warning,
without due process or a chance to prove innocence.

It sounds as though the Reagan administration is so happy with the state of
human rights in El Salvador that they want to use them as a model for the US.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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