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From: richk@uw-beaver (Richard Korry)
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Subject: Re: Hackers for Nicaragua?
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> In case you are thinking of putting this on your resume, my advice is--don't.
> Unless of course you are looking for a job at the Institute for
> Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution, or the Democrat Party.
> Some personnel people might take a dim view of some grad student eating
> tax dollars and then helping bite the hand that fed him/her.
> 
> It won't do any good to flame me, as I am only on the net for the holidays
> and will not be back until Feb 15 at the earliest, by which time your
> flame will have expired from this system.
> -- 
> Gene Mutschler             {ihnp4 seismo ctvax}!ut-sally!batman!gene
> Burroughs Corp.
> Austin Research Center     cmp.barc@utexas-20.ARPA
> (512) 258-2495

Gene, you are correct. It won't do any good to flame you. And in general it
doesn't do any good to flame anyone since the flames don't inform people
on the issues or establish arguments. Flames are flames. The concept of
accepting differing opinions or considering ones own as possibly flawed
does not involve the use of CAPITAL LETTERS or the other traditional
ways we have for trying to prove our opponent is stupid/non-human.

My own view of Nicaragua is that the government is a great improvement
over Somosa for the majority of the people. The Sandinistas have their
share of stupid blunders especially regarding the Misquito Indians
on the Atlantic coast. But each blunder seems to be more than compensated
by "good works". Unfortunately they do seem to be heading towards a more
conventional State ala the Soviet model in regards to press and other
freedoms. Hopefully this is a product of the current civil war and not
the true aim of most of the Sandinistas. After talking with many people
that have traveled through the country, I am convinced that people have
many valid complaints about the Sandinistas but almost noone wants
the return of another Somosa and the National Guard.