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From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Soviet and American Human Rights:re to Yoshi
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 12:35:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 12:35:56 1986
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In article <1007@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>> >From:        tim sevener  whuxn!orb
>Soviet emigration policy.  But there has been no evidence of that as yet.
>But again, let me point out that my point was hardly to *condone* Soviet
>human rights abuses of all sorts - my point was that if we do not
>watch out we will wind up with a similar situation in our own country.
>Distibuting literature at shopping malls has been treated as a "trivial"
>problem.  But I do not think it is when also considered in conjunction
>with the blatant censorship of the press during Grenada, in conjunction
>with forced lie detector tests in the highest levels of government,
>in conjunction with FCC policies which threaten to allow media monopolies
>throughout the country, in conjunction with attempts to make all government
>employees take an oath that they would *never* reveal what they had
>learned in office, even after leaving office.
>Another very real threat is the enormous increase in research and development
>spending for the military on classified projects which Star Wars threatens
>to increase to even larger proportions.  As part of this militarization
>of research more and more restrictions are being placed upon rights to
>publish and basic academic freedoms.
>The point is to *avoid* becoming another Soviet Union, not to
>"defend ourselves" by simply becoming like the Soviet Union ourselves.
>        tim sevener   whuxn!orb

tim 
 
I think that you clear address a very grave danger, in a well thought out 
logical manner. It is hard for me to see how intelligent people would not
agree with you. I agree. Presumably most of the people on this net are
intelligent. However I suspect that many will disagree. Do you wonder why?


Richard Foy, Redondo Beach, CA
The opinions I have expressed are the result of many years in the school of
hard knocks. Thus they are my own.