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From: matthews@harvard.UUCP (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Protest in Russia and the U.S.
Message-ID: <716@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 14:43:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 14:43:27 1986
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Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
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In article <536@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
> 
>Finally, before we get holier-than-thou about Soviet peace activists
>being arrested for distributing literature we should remember that
>the New York Supreme Court just recently ruled that anti-nuclear
>activists distributing literature in malls in New York State could
>be arrested for trespassing.
>          tim sevener   whuxn!orb

	I find it simply incredible that a person with any conception
of reality in the Soviet Union could write the above.  There is absolutely
nothing in common between the policies governing dissent in the Soviet
Union and the laws that prohibit trespassing in the United States.  They
are completely alien to one another in origin, purpose, and effect. 
	The implicit comparison between pamphleteers in our malls and
the residents of the Gulag is sickening, and only belittles the plight
of Soviet prisoners of conscience.

Jim Matthews
matthews@harvard