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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
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Subject: Re: Hackers for Nicaragua?
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 11:37:11 EST
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> In a recent posting that I hope was just a joke, someone asked for hackers to
> volunteer for service to Nicaragua.  Now we all know that real service to Nicaragua
> would be on the Contra side, but my suspicion is that they were asking for help
> in consolidating the Marxist/communist
> thugs in their genocidal moves in Central America.
> 
> Just be reminded, those ingenues out there who think it's some kind of game:
> people are actually dying down there--the Soviet helicopter gunships are not just for show; they are being used as in
> the other Soviet client state of Afghanistan--for the suppression of liberty and
> elimination of opposition.  Today's paper tells of the Sandinistas clsing the
> one remaining opposition newspaper. do you think they would hesitate to use your
> misguided help and then discard you, as they did so many American who helped in
> Cuba, years ago.  (And I was one of those who wanted to go help Castro then!)
> 
> don't be misled by the oh-so-effete intellectuals in this country who want to 
> see a new Abraham Lincoln brigade for Nicaragua.  They will sip wine in New Yorkand boston while you die in Nicaragua.
> 
> There is a war on, and the communists will lose this one as they are now losing
> in Africa and Asia in at least eight conflicts.  They have overextended and the people are rising up against a dying and
> sterile so-clled philosophy.  Don't think you will be doing a service by trying
> to help the red thugs set up communications and computational facilities in
> Nicaragua.
> 
> [Can anyone tell me who paid the net-bill for that blatant recruitment of communists
> over this network?  What a slimy bunch!;
> 
> --arlan andrews

I don't know who the fine individual was who posted the original article
was -- isn't it awful that there is somebody who posts more than the
complete source to hack [a great game] or MIT research position announcements?

I'm one of many hackers who have gone to Nicaragua to help out.  The evil
communist deeds that I was involved in was in helping the programmers at a
pharmaceutical company learn CPM and Microsoft BASIC so that they could
re-write their inventory software.

I'll gladly answer any questions frankly about my experience there.
``...the oh-so-effete intellectuals'' of the organization which sponsored
my trip go to Nicaragua themselves for the same reasons I did -- to help
the country and to demonstrate to the people there that there are
Americans who are interested in doing something besides killing or
exploiting them.

What have you done for the world lately, Mr. Andrews?

P.S.  I object to being called `slimy' -- I take a shower every day.

-- 
Jeff Myers				The views above may or may not
University of Wisconsin-Madison		reflect the views of any other
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