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From: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Freedom of faith
Message-ID: <1581@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 12:24:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 12:24:17 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Oct-86 20:39:50 EDT
Reply-To: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
Organization: CWRU Dept. Comp. Eng., Cleveland OH
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I think we need a "new" subject here (new appears within double quotes
to signify the fact that nothing seems to be new to the net).

In a country that boasts itself of allowing the most personal freedom
permissible in terms of freedom of speech, religion and other things,
I find it surprising to note that there is indeed a systematic suppression of
certain beliefs.  Granted that Communism is "despicable", I'd still think
that if someone wanted to believe in it, he/she should have the freedom
to do so.  I recently had to fill up a visa application.  Under section in
which the introductory sentence reads as,  "A visa may not be issued to
persons who are within specific categories defined by law as inadmissible
to the Uniter States...", one of the categories listed is "[persons] who
are or have been members of certain organizations including Communist
organizations and those affiliated therewith;".
	In my opinion that is one of the weaknesses in this country's
foreign policy.  It seems that anything Red is bad and anything that
is not Red may be bad, but it is still good.

I am not a Communist but why should anybody care if I am?

sundar r iyengar
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