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From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Freedom of faith (Communism)
Message-ID: <1543@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 21:53:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdrago.1543
Posted: Thu Oct  2 21:53:13 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 08:33:54 EDT
References: <1581@cwruecmp.UUCP> <15885@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <15885@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>>"A visa may not be issued to ... [persons] who
>>are or have been members of certain organizations including Communist
>>organizations and those affiliated therewith;".
>
>Since the communists aim at world domination and the destruction of
>our way of life it hardly seems unreasonable to try and stop them.
>Communism is like cancer, you can't treat it like a normal
>condition or it will kill you.
>
>>In my opinion that is one of the weaknesses in this country's
>>foreign policy.  It seems that anything Red is bad ...
>
>Anything "Red" *IS* bad. The weakness in American foreign policy is
>in not having found more effective means of dealing with communism.
> [In-depth description of standard uninformed concept of communism]

Tom,
	I will assume that this is intended to be a parody of the attitudes of
many un-informed "McCarthyesque" americans.  Unfortunately, to be
successful, a satire must exaggerate the opinions it is supposed to make
fun of.  Too many people actually believe this for it to be a true parody.
Better luck next time.

	Bruce Kirby
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	I mean...you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn
	women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug?
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