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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Sanctions: USA hypocrasy
Message-ID: <1043@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 12:10:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 12:10:26 1986
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> There have been many postings in net.followup concerning the morality of
> sanctions against SA USSR etc. What winds me up is people dithering over
> over sanctions against a blatantly evil government (oppressive as perceived
> by its people) when the US is happy not only to impose sanctions against
> Nicaragua but to positively (ie money) support the contras who, by all
> independent accounts, are a bunch of sadistic thugs. By contrast the Nicaraguan
> government is probably more popular than any Western government (as perceived
> by its population) and its human rights record is certainly better than any
> other Central American country (many of whom are supported by the US). It seems
> that sanctions used will only be used by the US if they will be effective and 
> the US does not like the government in question.
> 

Nicaragua has a better human rights record or more popular government 
than Costa Rica?  The fact that you can make such a blatantly nonsensical
statement shows how little you really know about the subject.

The subject of Nicaraguan human rights abuses has been discussed at
great length on Usenet.  The complexities of the various groups involved
in the Contras has also been discussed at great length.  This kind of
inaccurate and ignorant nonsense is just more Big Lie tactics.

Clayton E. Cramer