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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger eulogies?
Message-ID: <208@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 10:43:48 EST
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.208
Posted: Mon Feb 24 10:43:48 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 20:21:48 EST
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Obviously everyone who wishes to defend their right to continue this
constant political rhetoric on this group is going to attempt to take
exception with me on some irrelevant point (note the cracks about
"you're in the minority" and "your team is off-season" and references
to valium in a cheap-shot attempt to question a person's rationality
rather than deal with the issue.)

OK, I'M GONNA MAKE THIS REAL SIMPLE FOR YOU:

It seems to me that several people are using this group to spout right-wing
rhetoric, like constantly quoting Gus Hall (head of the American Communist
Party and generally unimportant person), READ THE DAMN MESSAGE I REPLIED TO
IF YOU NEED AN EXAMPLE. GREP GUS /usr/spool/net/columbia/* for more examples.

I was only asking that we try to stick a little closer to the subject of
the shuttle rather than using it as an opportunity to smear Hall, Pravda
and the Nicaraguans which I cannot believe people do not notice some
opportunists on this list are doing. And don't immediately assume that
I agree with the opposite of your views just because I dared to complain,
I certainly don't believe Hall or a word I ever hear from Pravda (sorry,
but they seem to love to stoop to red-baiting to defend their point of view.)

Thank you, does that clear it up, sorry I credited all of you with
being able to make the connection for yourself, I am sure most of you
did, but a few here are quite blinded by their ideologies.

If it were one or two messages I would have restrained myself, but it
isn't, it's dozens of messages many of them very similar (am I really
the only one to have noticed this? no, unfortunately those that agreed
with me sent private mail, only the self-made idealogues and defenders
of the one true faith posted to the net with their slander.) Look, there's
a lot of jerks out there in the world, and there are a lot of rational
folks who just have a different point of view, just don't try to make
it all sound simple, cause it isn't.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Gee, I didn't know how right I was about 50's nostalgia, look at some
of these attacks in reply to my complaint and compare to McCarthyism
and *their* tactics (red-baiting, questioning a person's sanity and
job credentials.) I don't know about you folks, but I think we may be
in for quite ride if this represents more than a tiny fringe view.