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From: schneider@2littl.DEC (DANIEL SCHNEIDER)
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Subject: Re: Whom Should We Believe
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 17:01:22 EST
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>In article <1658@decwrl.UUCP> schneider@2littl.DEC (DANIEL SCHNEIDER) writes:
>>
>>A few days ago I was flipping through the cable channels and I came
>>upon similar footage, where a pitiful, elderly, toothless man was 
>>sitting in his hut talking softly.  The captions went similarly:
>>the soldiers had been doing all the harm.  When this segment finished
>>a narrator continued the story of how "good" the contras are and likewise
>>how "evil" the Sandinistas.  When the narrator finished the scene was back 
>>to a TV studio where who was requesting money?  Why good ol' Jerry Falwell.
>>You're keeping fine company Eduardo.  
 
>This is typical of those who don't have any good arguments against
>opposing views: they then try to discredit one by drawing bad analogies.

I was not furnishing an argument and thus it wasn't a "good" argument, nor
a  "bad"  analogy. I think its quite informative to juxtapose the sources of
two  pieces  of  strikingly  similar  information. [Incidentally, instead of
being  a bad analogy, using the definition in my dictionary, the above piece
is  probably  too  similar  to  be  an  analogy.]  I'm  not  sure why such a
juxtaposition should upset you. I would assume your views of the Sandinistas
and  Rev.  Falwell's  are  in harmony. If you dislike the association with a
political bedfellow it is your problem, not mine for pointing it out.

>I have no reason to believe that news report [on Mexican television news -DS]
>any more or less than I
>believe news reports about the contras killing innocent people. Do you?

The  contradictory  information  comes from two distinct camps. Ex-Somozans,
anti-communists  and  the  like  seem  to  have  caught  your ear. Meanwhile
my  sympathies  tend  to  lay  with  the  citizens of the  country  and  the
lifestyles  they  attempt  to lead. To this end, much information is flowing
from   groups   of   similar   interests.   Unfortunately  humanist-inspired
information  regularly contradicts that of yours, Eduardo, Jerry Falwell and
Ronald  Reagan.  I  have  no  idea what your vested interests are if they do
exist, but I am well aware of those of your compatriots.  

To summarize I believe whom I believe after considering the vested interests
of  the  sources  of  information. From this method, I have determined those
seeking  to  overthrow  the  Nicaraguan  government have indirectly condoned
atrocities against other people. If I were to accept the political arguments
against  the  Sandinistas,  I  would  still be against the methods currently
being used by the Contras and funded publicly by the American government and
privately by many conservative organizations.

>Trying to believe in only one side of the story and just discredit
>any facts supporting the other side is like lying to yourself.
>    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department

This  is  true.  Alas it is unfortunate that you merely type these words and
show  no  sign  of heeding them. I do not believe I have provoked you in any
way to think the same of me.

		Daniel Schneider
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