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From: ins_argr@jhunix.UUCP (Robert G Roberds)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: more on Challenger eulogies
Message-ID: <2079@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 22:37:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 22:37:19 1986
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> 
> > sorry, but they seem to love to stoop to red-baiting to defend their point of
> > view ... only the self-made idealogues and defenders of the one true faith
> > posted to the net with their slander.
> 
> I posted the original note.  It was very short, consisting of three eulogies
> international figures/groups had made on the Challenger 7.  I also inserted a
> one line editorial comment, calling these groups "slime".  I will call anyone
> slime who refers to the dead astronauts as "war criminals" and expresses
> "happiness" over their deaths and the destruction of the orbiter (as did the
> communist guerrillas in El Salvador).  I stand behind my position, despite your
> simplistic charges.
> 
> A. Ray Miller
> Univ Illinois

I agree.  While I am neither a right- nor a left-winger, I find that
*both* sides employ a double standard.  For my money, calling a cosmonaut
or an astronaut a war criminal is reprehensible.  Period.  Politics are not
the point.  Expressing happiness over a death is contemptible, as it is to
defend those who do so.  I wish to God (if He exists, so flame off)  that
lefties and righties would try to cure their rampant myopia and
try to look at things objectively.  I defy anyone out there to defend the
SLIME who expressed joy over the Challenger explosionxplosion  xO
tendency to polarize issues.  And you?
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