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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Responce
Message-ID: <58@gilbbs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 18:47:06 EST
Article-I.D.: gilbbs.58
Posted: Sun Mar  9 18:47:06 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 05:14:27 EST
References: <1466@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1686@ihlpg.UUCP> <2015@psuvax1.UUCP>
Organization: Gil's Place, Santa Rosa CA
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Summary: many seem to feel that "America - Love it or Leave it" is a valid position.  Criticism is necessary and desirable.

In article <2015@psuvax1.UUCP>, berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) writes:
> OK, I do have first-hand experience. 

[living in Russia - mc68020]

> For posting on the wall I was
> treatened with blacklisting (no meaningful job after graduation),
> and I know that the treat was not empty.  For exercising free speech
> you may be arrested, denied passport etc. etc.  Sometimes you may
> be imprisoned for several years.
> 
> US is really better than USSR.  But shall this be sufficient?
> Shall one apply so easy a yardstick to "the land of the free
> and  the home of the brave"? 
> 
> Piotr Berman

   THANK YOU, Piotr!  (btw way, could you send me a phonetically spelled 
   pronunciation of Piotr?)

   I get sick and tired of idiots who insist that because I *DARE* to 
criticize America, I am somehow aiding and abetting the "filthy commies".
God damn it, dissent is not only a freedom it is a responsibility!  This
nation was founded upon dissent.  How *DARE* any of you denigrate me for
exercising my right and responsibility to dissent, when I see things that
are wrong!!??!!

   You people who play this game are the ones who do not belong in America!
Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia are much more suited to your style!  You
want everyone to have the freedom to agree with you.  Otherwise, they are
"the enemy", or at least are aiding and abetting.  You people make me
sick!  Go join your brothers and sisters in the John Birch Society!


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