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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 13:40:58 EST
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> >Considering the history of the Nicaraguan Revolution, it makes no sense for
> >the EPS to be committing such atrocities, so at this point I will discard it
> >as untrue propaganda.  ...
> 
> Sounds like the same arguments that were running around the US while Hitler
> was in power.  "What possible reason could he have for killing innocent
> people?"  "It must be propoganda from people who want to get us into a
> war."
> 
> The Freedom Fighters in Nicaragua need our help.  The Sandinistas have
> betrayed their own country to the Cubans and Soviets.
> 

This sounds like guilt by association by innuendo.  Considering the history
of the NSDAP in Germany, it made a great deal of sense for innocents to be
killed.  Many people in the US at the time realized this, but were largely
ignored.  Many of these same people went to fight facism in Spain for no pay
nor the promise of any.

If you think the ``freedom fighters'' [pah!] need your help, why don't you
go put your life on the line and go fight at their sides?  The only folks
from the US that I see doing this are mercenaries and CIA operatives.

The people of Nicaragua are coming to play a role in their own destinies
rather than only Washington's.  The US gives aid to various countries and
does not necessarily completely dominate their societies.  So do Cuba and
the USSR.

Jeff Myers