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From: djs@nbires.UUCP (Diana Spalding)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re:  State Terrorism:  Whose?
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 00:35:12 EDT
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> A small point, but I was under the impression that the Salvadoran
> government, as personified by president Napolean Duarte, enjoys
> the support of the populace (as does, it would appear, the Nicaraguan 
> government). 
> 
> J.B. Robinson


No, no, no!!!  In El Salvador we are supporting the government and military
which are killing the rest of the people.  The U.S. main stream media has
tried to tell us that the U.S. is supporting a moderate government, and 
that the people there have to deal with violence from both the right and
the left.  This would be a good joke if it weren't for the fact that we're
talking about tens of thousands of innocent human lives.  The truth is that
the government we support down there is very right-wing, extremely brutal
and repressive.  Go down to El Salvador and ask the common folk if they
are afraid of the left.  They will laugh at you.  The people ARE the left
because they are united against their government which mercilessly
terrorizes, tortures, and murders it's citizens without cause (except
to "beat them into submission" I suppose).

In Nicaragua the situation is very different, as the people and the
government are united, and the only thing stopping them from gaining
the fullest extent of social and political justice and human rights
is U.S. terrorism from the outside.

Diana Spalding
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