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Subject: Re: Spies and the Media (why jail h
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 14:03:00 EDT
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[alang@masscomp.UUCP ]
>>>>- Why is it that an american  caught  with  secret  documents  is
>>>>"framed" and "innocent", beyond a shadow of a doubt?
>>
>>>Because we're the good guys.

I took it to be irony - i.e. that Alan Groupe thinks Americans
are no more "the good guys" than the Soviets.

Assuming this, I said:

>>Even opinions similar to those of Mr. Groupe are not at all an ex-
>>ception among public school teachers.

Now, he writes:

>Well, I guess like everyone I have to learn the hard way. Sarcasm really
>*doesn't* come across in print.

Apparently what I mistook for irony was *double* irony. My apologies.

		Jan Wasilewsky