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From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan's re-election
Message-ID: <2780@ucbcad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 05:15:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 05:15:29 1984
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> Herewith I want to express my deepest feelings for all those poor and
> innocent people who are going to die in the next four years throughout
> the world and specifically in Central America.... only because of the
> re-election of Reagan.
> I also want to express my disgust for all those Americans who, by voting
> for this man, are co-responsible for the deaths of all those people.
> 
> America, this is one more black day in your history. There's nothing you
> have to be proud of.
> 
> -- 
> 	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
> 	...{seismo,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet

I wish you would try to avoid this sort of nationalistic cross-Atlantic
name calling. I wouldn't say that Reagan's victory made me very happy
either, but I think that calling this a black day in America's history
and saying that Americans have nothing to be proud of is pretty strong
language from somebody who is leading a comfortable life and not
working in the slave-mines in Siberia only because of American power.
I could spend a lot of time criticizing the Dutch government and such
things as legalized prostitution and drugs in the Netherlands, but I
think that this sort of discussion has no place on an international
network, and I hope I don't see any more of it.

	Wayne