Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax2.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!bakken From: bakken@fluke.UUCP (Greg Bakken) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: The students of the country care about the world (South Africa) Message-ID: <574@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-May-85 15:49:36 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.574 Posted: Thu May 2 15:49:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 05:33:10 EDT References: <1102@cbosgd.UUCP> Reply-To: bakken@fluke.UUCP (Greg Bakken) Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 29 I feel that apartheid is certainly abhorrent, and should be replaced with a form of government that represents all of the people. The people of South Africa are certainly being deprived of their Inalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It is certainly a noble task to try and put pressure on its government to change. South Africa is not the only enslaved nation in the world, however. Undoubtedly the worst is the Soviet Union, where the whole country is in bondage except for the bourgeois at the top of the Communist Party hierarchy who do as they please, in the name of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" or to forward the "revolution" (which is indeed a cruel irony). Their atrocities are too numerous to begin to list here; suffice to note that if the 269 people that were killed in the Korean Airlines Massacre were the only ones murdered by the Soviets on that day, it would be a below average day in the history of the Soviet regime. I would like Mr. Stewart and others protesters to ask themselves the following question: Do you protest against a variety of governments, both Communist and non-Communist, or mainly against the one or two that happen to be "popular" at the time (and are, curiously, almost never Communist governments)? Greg Bakken John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.;PO Box C9090;MS 269D;Everett WA 98206;(206) 356-6298 {uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!bakken "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of management... etc. ad naseum."