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From: bcr@sbcs.UUCP (Bill Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The students of the country care about the world (South Africa)
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 19:11:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 19:11:07 1985
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> 
> 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 
> 
> 
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