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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: more on Challenger eulogies
Message-ID: <232@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 11:57:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 11:57:09 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 08:23:34 EST
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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>I defy anyone out there to defend the
>SLIME who expressed joy over the Challenger explosionxplosion  xO
>tendency to polarize issues.  And you?
>-- 
>Bob Roberds			|	Sitting here in Queens,

Being the one quoted and sort of indirectly challenged here:

LOOK, no one is defending such statements, that's absurd. I also don't
remember anything in the articles expressing 'joy' over their deaths.
I remember about a half-dozen quotes from Gus Hall about the green cannisters
being some sort of secret experiment (misinformed) and some typical quotes
criticizing the fact that american business stand to make a lot of $$ off
of this disaster (not entirely untrue, private business exploiting others'
misfortunes is a typical criticism by socialists.)

Obviously this medium doesn't work very well on such issues, once
someone disagrees with someone they seem to feel free to make any wild
claim that pleases their rhetorical urges.

Remember, it was *I* that was asking for the cessation of the self-serving
politicking. Somehow things have evolved to the point that anyone that
says anything is liable to be seen as the source of inappropriate flamitude
by someone. Sigh.

At any rate, if you feel it is reasonable to continue to use Gus Hall
and Pravda as frequent sources of authoritative reference on whatever
it is you are trying to prove or convince us of in this group...fine,
we're all impressed. That's all this was ever about.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University