Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!cca!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Nicaraguan Parallel Message-ID: <7800427@inmet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 03:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.7800427 Posted: Mon Sep 16 03:13:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 05:30:27 EDT Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #N:inmet:7800427:000:1648 Nf-From: inmet!janw Sep 16 03:13:00 1985 /* Written 10:50 pm Sep 3, 1985 by janw@inmet in inmet:net.flame */ /* ---------- "Nicaraguan Parallel" ---------- */ /* Written 11:51 pm Aug 27, 1985 by inmet!janw in inmet:net.politics */ > > Glad to know the Sandinista thugs were democratically elected. > >But then , haven't you heard, so was Michael Gorbachev -- or have > >you cancelled your subscription to Pravda ??? [ Ari Gross ] > ... could you please restate the (conclusive, no doubt) his- > torical, political, and moral justification for referring to > the Sandanista [sic] government as "thugs"? And could you please > review your analysis indicating the parallel between the govern- > mental structure of the USSR and Nicaragua? [ Jim Balter (ima!jim)] I cannot speak for Ari Gross, BUT if you ever see a country where pre-schoolers are militarized and singing slogans in sweet unison, you can bet your subscription to Pravda :-) that here is yet another implementation of a familiar model of government. The country can be called the USSR, nazi Germany, or Cuba, or Ni- caragua, and the slogans may differ, but the political structure, the "technology of power" varies remarkably little. Apparently, the model, to work at all, must hang together. Besides, the social engineers who crafted this particular copy had their blueprints all ready. E.g., Nicaraguan secret police has been planned, organ- ized, and is still run by East German professionals, heirs to the finest traditions of both Gestapo and the KGB. The word "thugs" is probably redundant here. -- Jan Wasilewsky /* End of text from inmet:net.politics */ /* End of text from inmet:net.flame */ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com