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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Destroy SPOT with an ASAT?  (what!?)
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 20:53:39 EST
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In article <261@uvacs.UUCP> rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
>If this is a joke, it's not particularly funny.  Otherwise, this is an
>extremely irresponsible posting on a network which is read around the
>free world.  Regardless of the reliability of your rumor source, there is no
>reason to believe that our government would infringe on the rights of another
>nation -- particularly an ally.

Except possibly for Lichtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, and Luxemborg, and
most of the Pacific island countries, I cannot think of one government in
the world which has existed longer than one month that has NOT infringed
on the rights of another nation--allied or not.  Try reading newspapers
now and then.  The United States props up right wing dictators as long as
they say the magic words "anti-Communist", bombs Cambodia without asking
anyone's permission, mines the harbors of Nicaragua, refuses to do anything
about acid rain in Canada until even more study is done, actively overthrew
Chile's election winner Allende, tries to force New Zealand to be a nuclear
target, etc etc.  The military with Reagan's blessing has announced on more
than one occasion they will ignore our own Congress.  Refusing to negotiate
with the Soviet's on arms reductions--by making the "defensive" SDI program
as unbudgeable--violates every single human being's rights to anything.

Perhaps this last part is somewhat exaggerated on my part, but your statement
"no reason to believe" above is complete nonsense.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720