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From: richard@gryphon.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Amnesty International
Message-ID: <2070@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 14:26:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 14:26:58 1987
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In article <1139@puff.wisc.edu> mading@puff.wisc.edu (Eric Mading) writes:
>
>I am not too well informed on this issue,

Or any other, for that matter.

>but I hear Amnesty International
>wants to get their own newsgroup.

Thats right Eric, there are 400 of them banging on the doors of USENET
central.

>Well, this may suprise some people who have
>read my articles,

Eric old bean, in the short time you have been posting, most of
us have come to the realization that absolutly nothing
you say is going to surprise anybody.

>but I support an Amnesty International newsgroup.

(Just not the ideas for which they stand.)

Yes, please, somebody, hurry up and create alt.human-rights so Eric
can support it the same way he supported soc.motss.

>Denying them one would be censorship.

Thats right Eric. It would be censorship. Thats why there is no
rec.windchimes, or rec.music.country-and-western, or rec.hampsters...

>
>Eric Mading
>UW-Madison
>The views expressed here are likely shared by the University, but don't take 
>that for granted.

Now there is a scarey thought.

It's gotta be the cheese, I tell you...

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