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Subject: Re: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 16:58:18 EST
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---------------------Reply to mail dated 12-MAR-1986 18:53---------------------

>   IN any case, thh whole point here is that while the Soviets may take things
>to greater extremes, I cannot think of anything that the Soviets do, to their
>own citizens, as well as to other nations, that we ourselves in the US do not
>do, to some extent or another.
> 


    Mr Keller I take great execption to this.  Tell me the last person who
was internally exiled in the US without a trial.  Tell me the last person
who disappeared without a trace in the US because of a government order to
make them disappear.  How many people are placed in Mental wards because
they disagree with the state.  Tell me what happens to people who decide to
emigrate from the US?

   There is a major difference besides extremes between the US and Soviet
Union.  The US constitution guarentees basic human rights.  There are bounds
on what the US government can and can not do. These bounds do not exist in
the Soviet Union and never have. There is freedom in the US there is no
freedom in the Soviet Union it is as simple as that.

   (on dealing with other nations I tend to agree.  but I have yet to
    see what happened in the Phillipeans happen in a client state of
    the Soviet Union)


   Brian Mahoney