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Subject: re: Death to baby killers, NOW!
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 09:47:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 09:47:35 1986
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> >     > >From me (tim sevener)  > Mark  
> > 3)Some time ago there *was* a terrorist attack *in the capitol of the
> >   United States*.  It was the bombing of a former member of the Chilean
> >   government under Allende by Pinochet's police forces.  Did we hear
> >   anxious calls to "blow up Pinochet"?
> 
> Like I said before, Libya is now the most recognized supporter of terrorism
> and will take the heat first. When a precedent has been set in US policy 
> towards these types of countries then the rest will be taken care of.
>   
> > 4)While Reagan and the American media wail against terrorism conducted
> >   by the "enemy" they *never even mention* our own support for
> >   terrorist campaigns against innocent civilians in Nicaragua and now
> >   (thanks to Jerry Falwell, Jack Kemp and friends) in Angola.
> >   Yet there was an interesting letter in the NYTimes (Jan. 9) from
> >   Edgar Chamorro, a former leader of the contras who quit in disgust.
> >   Here is an interesting statement he made in his letter:
> 
> See above.
>      
> > *THINK* for god's sake before salivating for flesh and carnage.
> >                   tim sevener  whuxn!orb
> Mark
 
This is truly 1984 Reagan doublethink.  "Libya is now the most recognized
supporter of terrorism".  Recognized by whom?  Recognized by the US
government and media.  I had a query about the bombing of the Gulf Oil
refineries by South African commandos.  The coverage of such incidents
is so bad that even the more politically aware people in net.politics
don't even know about it.
The rest of the world did not think very highly of the mining in Nicaragua.
A former major leader of the contras himself resigns in disgust at what
he terms a US controlled campaign of terrorism in Nicaragua.
Reagan says the contras are "freedom fighters".  Khaddafy says the
PLO is "freedom fighters".  They are both lying through their teeth.
No doubt the Libyan newspapers don't call the PLO "terrorists" but
"freedom fighters for  the struggle to regain Palestine".  The contras,
if they are mentioned at all, are of course labelled as "terrorists".

Even *if* Libya is number one, then what does that make us, number two?
Will we bomb ourselves for terrorism next?
 
Just because *our* media defines support for the PLO as "terrorism"
and simply accedes to Reagan's defining of support for the contras
as "support for freedom fighters" does not change the contras tactics
of terrorism.
 
Try to get outside your narrow chauvinistic American viewpoint!
          tim sevener  whuxn!orb