Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!ficc!jeffd
From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Desperately Seeking Lisa Support
Summary: Response
Message-ID: <3995@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 27 Apr 89 13:44:54 GMT
References: <135900007@cdp> <135900008@cdp>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
Lines: 58

In article <135900008@cdp>, hmuskat@cdp.UUCP writes:
> 
> Injuries sustained against either Somoza national guard or U.S. backed contra's.
> You might be surprised when you visit Nicaragua how much wide spread support
> they receive from the population throughout the country.
> 
> I for one do not believe la prensa should be allowed to publish while receiving
> funds from the cia. During WWII at each metro daily through the u.s. the govt
> kept one (1) censor employed. There is precedent in democratic countries for
> such a thing. I wouldn't be so quick to criticize what I knew little about.
> Check it out. You are lacking important informatin.
> 
> Suggest you log onto peacenet somehow and educate yourself re. central america &
> specifically Nicaragua.
> 
> While I responded to you directly in e-mail, thought readers should have an
> opportunity to read my response. Perhaps more discussion can take place in alt.
> politics.

Well, fair is fair, so I'll reply here -- a lot of folks, my site
included, don't get alt.politics.

	
	(1) I fail to see where someone's funding  removes their Human rights.
	    I would certainly oppose closing down The Daily World because it
	    gets money from people who support dictatorships.
	
	(2) Our government has also acted genocidally toward Indians.  That
	    does *not* justify similar actions by the Ortegistas.
	
	I am amused/sickened by rightwingers who justify socialistic
	actions by governments in South Africa and Brazil, and by leftwingers'
	who justify repression by governments in Nicaragua, Cuba, etc.  
	That's one reason I like Amnesty International: they criticize
	violations of Human rights by any government committing them,
	including our own.
	
	Para un Tejas Libre,
	
	Jeff Daiell
	
	P.S.  I have a friend who's an ex-Sandinista, and who has family
	      in Nicaragua still.  I doubt your data are too much better
	      than mine!
	
	
To sum up: it was wrong when Somoza closed La Prensa.  It is
just as wrong for the Ortegas to do so.






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