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From: devonst@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
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Subject: Re: Leaving the Promised Land
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 10:10:43 EDT
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tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
>> I'm not arguing for or against socialism. If the USSR, et al, are examples
>> of anything, they appear to be better examples of the failure of coercion
>> than of anything else.
>> Dan C Duval
>----------
>Unfortunately, the USSR is an example of the SUCCESS of coercion.  It is
>very good at it.  The world's largest prison has a negligible escape
>rate, and earns political capital and other concessions by ransoming
>its prisoners, very very slowly.
>-- 
>Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

Notice how Cuba has caught on to the Soviet system that Bill described.
They make much of their release of so-called political prisoners that play
up really well in the US press.  They also have learned to make use of
left-leaning Americans like Jesse Jackson and others to spread their
propoganda.  Jesse goes to Havana and embraces Castro at the airport as a
great humanitarian.  Still, liberal's eyes glaze over when you talk about
communist countries and their human-rights policies choosing instead to
focus their attention on American allies.
--
Tom Albrecht