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From: acton@anchor.cs.ubc.ca (Donald Acton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Clark's speech to CIC; frontline states
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Date: 23 Mar 88 17:31:33 GMT
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In article <576@myrias.UUCP> sjl@myrias.UUCP (Stuart Lomas) writes:
}I saw
}no evidence of dissent, not even graffiti. 

Since when has the presence or lack of graffiti become a definitive
statement by the people concerning their support or lack of it with
respect to a particular government. A comment often heard from
tourists returning from the USSR is that there is no graffiti but that
doesn't imply that the government there has the complete support of
its populous. Maybe the presence or lack of graffiti has more to do
with what the consequences are if you happen to get caught spray
painting your slogan on a wall or maybe it just means that the public
service cleans up the mess very quickly. 

}I believe we have no business demanding "democratic reform" of a government
}that is (a) not guilt of major human rights abuses, (b) very stable, and
}(c) popular domestically. Can demonstrate that my assumptions are wrong?
  
It is our money we are giving away so we can demand anything we want.
The recipients are under no obligation to accept it. You or I may not
like the strings we attach to the money but we can certainly can attach
strings to it.

   Donald Acton