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From: pptanner@watcgl.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: 'Free' Trade?
Message-ID: <628@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 09:54:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 09:54:18 1987
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Reply-To: pptanner@watcgl.UUCP (Peter P. Tanner)
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In article <233@pembina.alberta.UUCP> bjorn@alberta.UUCP (Bjorn R. Bjornsson) writes:
>Are you implying that a US citizen cannot go to Cuba 

Americans are not only not allowed to go to Cuba, but there is a
list of countries (always has been) that they are not allowed to
go to.  Until quite recently an American broke the law of their
land if they went to China!  China was deemed the enemy, and you
were not allowed to find out the truth by going there.  Look at
some old American books in the library about China, see the
descriptions of the 700 million who "are being taught fanatical
hatred of the West".  Compare these writings with what we are now
told about China, then read 1984 again.

Certain Americans have very peculiar views of the world brought
about by ignorance - sometimes enforced by the government (as in
the case of banning travel to other countries or by banning
people with different ideas, such as Farley Mowat from
travelling to the States), or enforced by the media by a studied
ignorance of the outside world.  While I do not want these
stilted views banned from our country, we require a domestic
media to view the world through a differently coloured glass, and
we need access to the way people from other countries view the
world.