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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 10:54:40 EDT
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> In article <10615@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
> >I take particular offense at being compared
> >to Russia. We certainly are not on the same moral plane as Russia. 
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> [Charles Forsythe]
> It's this kind of unthinking highmindedness that irritates people. Why
> do you say this? Have you ever given much serious thought to what the US
> government really does? Has your phone ever been tapped? I know people
> who's phone has been tapped -- because they were political feminists.
> I wonder if the KGB came in for consulting work. Also, in light of
> previous topics: Russia has never USED a nuclear weapon to kill anybody,
> America has. Same moral plane? It's much to complecated.
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If you were in the Soviet Union, Mr. Forsythe, you would not only
have your phone tapped, you would be sent to a mental institution. 
After reading your latest gem, I think I might support the Russians
in this (only 1/2 -) ).
Read some Russian history, particularly of the Stalin era.  You don't
have to take my word for this.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan