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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: E.g. Student Gov't Project.
Message-ID: <1903@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 13:09:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 13:09:11 1986
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In article <473@umich.UUCP> gt@umich.UUCP writes:
>In <705@ihlpm.UUCP> From: leb78@ihlpm.UUCP (Bosnak) (actually Laurie Donahue)
>writes:
>>Does the MSA believe everyone at U of M feels the same way about the CIA?
>
>No, that's why it's a referendum.  But I can't imagine people voting FOR
>terrorism.

Nobody supports terrorism, but it is possible to not support terrorism and
still support the CIA, if you don't believe the CIA supports terrorism.
Like it or not, it is a legitimate political position to believe that the CIA
does not support terrorism.

This referendum sounds a lot to me as if someone had made a referendum asking
if the students support the sanctity of human life.  Who doesn't support the
sanctity of human life?  Therefore the referendum passes, but after it's over,
a committee is formed that not surprisingly forbids all pro-abortion groups
from any activities on campus.

Just substitute "don't support terrorism" for "support the sanctity of human
life" and "the CIA" for "pro-abortion groups".  What's happening in both cases
is that a referendum is taken on a general principle that everyone believes in,
but in fact the principle is a code word for something that NOT everyone
believes in.  
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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