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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller)
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Subject: Re: That dirty 'ol CIA
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 15:51:53 EST
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> > Ah yes, the CIA, the great shapeless monster of every liberal's dreams.
> > Spying is an international pastime.  Surely, I am disgusted when I read
> > about those who have been caught spying for a foreign power and applaud
> > our own people when we learn important information.  So what?  It is a lot
> > like cheering for your home team.Don't read more into it than is really there.
> > Certainly there have been abuses but to dismantle such an important
> > organization simply because of this is absurd.

   I get really tired of this form of nationalistic bullshit.

   Look, turkies, you *DIDN'T* choose to be Americans (most of you).  You
were born American by the same genetic accidents that caused Russians to be
born Russian, and Haitians to be born Haitians.

   Comparing nationalism to "rooting for the home team" is ludicrous.  With
sports, you choose to support some team for whatever personal reasons suit
you.  You have *CHOSEN* to be a supporter of that team.


   Face it, those who support the interference by the U.S. in the internal
affairs of other nations, against the wishes of that nation, are racists,
or minimally elitists.  They feel that due to the accident of their having
been born American, they have the right to impose upon others what they
would *NEVER* tolerate being imposed upoin themselves.  Given that in almost
every case, America is interfering with non-white nations and peoples, this
translates very neatly into racism.

   
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