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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: S.A., Soviets, & Sanctions
Message-ID: <2382@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 19:09:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 19:09:21 1986
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Reply-To: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

[I followed up in net.followup because we don't get net.politics]
> Wrong. I suggest we should impose economic sanctions only on countries that:
> (1) have governments which are immoral and which are perceived to be immoral
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> by a majority of their population.
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In a country in which access to outside information is denied and
the only source of news is a state controlled media  it is quite
possible for the citizenry to live in the most abominable of conditions,
yet believe that they have it good compared to others elsewhere, or that
their sacrifices are required in order to "sustain the revolution".
At the risk of being somewhat unoriginal - "ignorance is bliss".

J.B. Robinson

PS Would one of those who believes that political freedom (including free
   elections) is any less important than other human rights please 
   explain this position?