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From: cmullen@gold.dec.com (Cynthia Mullen, at DTN 297-4818)
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Subject: Reply to 'Update #2 on technical travel to Nicaragua'
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Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 18:02:48 EDT
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Recently someone from tecNICA has again started recruiting volunteers for
Nicaragua, on many addresses on USENET.  When this began before, a lot 
of people complained, a lot of bad feeling was generated, and the consensus
was that such articles should be restricted to net.politics.  Now someone 
has the gall to issue "Update # 2" repeating the pitch to support Nicaragua.

I'm disgusted. By disregarding the outcry against politicizing USENET,
these Nicaraguan supporters are doing just what their political comrades
do: they take advantage of existing structures, existing forums of free
exchange of ideas, to propagate ideas that would undermine the very
structures they abuse.  They break any rules they want, THEY don't have
to follow the USENET conventions.  Again they are like their political
counterparts - what Communist government ever followed the rules of democracy
or kept any treaty it made?  Nicaragua is following that path - the leftists
kicked out or killed the people who helped bring about the overthrow of
Samoza.  America gave millions of dollars to the new government, but Ortega
took over and invited Russians and Russian influence there.  Does anyone
really want to see us supporting the present government of Nicaragua? 

I'd like to see us flood their telephone numbers with complaints, and I
hope that those of us who see through their lies will be willing to 
take a stand, even here, on the unbloody battlefield of USENET.


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