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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Goodbye
Message-ID: <34@gilbbs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 18:43:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 18:43:58 1986
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Summary: non-alliance not equivalent with enmity

In article <1466@decwrl.DEC.COM>, simon@elwood.DEC (Product Safety 237-3521) writes:
> With this posting I am saying Goodbye to this net.group.  But it's not 
> that I am changing jobs or anything like that.  For the last few months 
> I just get sick and tired of reading the articles written by people who 
> know next to nothing about what they are writing.  I am talking about 
> people who would be much better off in the Soviet Union then in a 
> democratic country.  People who compare everyday abuses of human rights 
>  [many lines of blather deleted] 
> Many years ago Lenin said about people like these:  "We need useful 
> idiots in the West.  They will do more damage to capitalist countries 
> then we can".  He was right.  Here on this net.group there are more 
> people like that then in any place else.  I have been living in the USA 
> for four years now and have not met personally anybody with so 
> pro-Soviet views.  But here on net.politics....
>  [many lines of blather deleted]
> the subject that is close to me.  A few months of going through this 
> again is enough.  This time I am quitting for good.


   It strikes me that this represents no loss to the net.group, or to
the net as a whole.  It never ceases to amaze me how right-wing idiots
equate criticism of the United States with Soviet sympathy.

  

  I deplore and reject the support that the Reagan administration is lending
to the Contra rebels.  Therefore, I *MUST* be a supporter of the Sandinista
regime, right?  ***WRONG***  I simply believe that *WE* have no business
in there at all!


  The Soviets invade Afghanistan, and I argue that what the Soviets are doing
is no worse than what we did in Viet Nam, Grenada, etc.  Therefore, I *MUST*
be a Soviet sympathizer, right?   ***WRONG***  I simply believe that if this
nation reserves the right to invade and interfere with the internal workings
of other nations, for reasons of political convenience, then we *AS A NATION*
have no right to complain when other nations do the same!


   In fairness, left-wing idiots make the same errors, when people disagree
with them.  Amazing, how much the same they are, isn't it?


> 
> ---
> Leo Simon		 
> 
> Digital Equipment Corp.	 
> 333 South St.    
> Shrewsbury MA, 01545	
> 
> (617)841-3521
> DTN  237-3521
> Mail Stop SHR-4/D26
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> (UUCP)	{decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-elwood!simon
> (ARPA)	simon%elwood.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
> 			
> You realize of course that all of the above does not have anything to 
> do with my employer.

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