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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Hackers for Nicaragua?
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 09:27:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 09:27:00 1985
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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. 

No joke, Rambo.  A lot of the Sandies' activities are impeachable,
but it's the Contras--the once and future Somocistas--who are
butchering the Nicaraguan people.

>                     ...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!)

Hmmm--the "David Stockman Effect".  There's no fascist like a
reformed leftist.

> 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 York and boston while you
> die in Nicaragua. 

As with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the organizers are the ones
who've been there and return again and again.  Ask them.

>                                      ...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

Of course, the difference between the TechNica posting and Arlan's
is that the former presented some concrete and useful information,
while the latter merely foamed a cliched, truly effete, child's-
eye view of a black-and-white world.  Dream on.  Grow up.
-- 
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