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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Re: E.g. Student Gov't Project.
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 12:46:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 12:46:36 1986
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Re: CIA recruiting ban, democracy etc

I was listening to a talk radio station and a caller summed up the
frustration in this matter very well:

If congress can vote that Nicaragua (eg) presents a threat to our national
security, as required in the Constitution, then let's send in the 82nd
Airborne and be done with it. If they cannot or will not vote, then let's
get the hell out of there.

Vietnam, Granada, Nicaragua, Chile, etc etc, there is just something
very strange going on in our interpretation of warmaking powers in this
country and I think it has made a lot of people both angry and scared,
we never know what's next or who is going to authorize it (or WHY!) And
it seems damn clear that the intent is to suppress open discussion and
anything even vaguely resembling democracy on this most important issue
(I mean, let's face it folks, people are being killed over there in your
name.)

Given this situation, various protests such as banning recruitment on a
campus by a group may be about the only vote we are going to get. No matter
where you happen to stand on the issue of whether or not Nicaragua (eg) is
a legitimate government, aren't you a little concerned about the decision
making process that is going on here? What happened to all those resolutions
that came out of Congress as a result of the same protestations over Vietnam
that gave the President X days (90 I think) during which s/he could exercise
emergency warmaking powers after which it would be brought before congress
for a declaration of war or else stopped. Seemed sensible to me.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University