uncle@ucsbcsl.UUCP (07/20/86)
Return-Path: <ucsbcsl!uncle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 86 21:04:05 pdt From: <ucsbcsl!uncle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Posted-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 86 21:04:05 pdt Subject: Wer nie sein Brot mit Traenen ass In contradistinction to the fact that polls show the American public to be opposed to further funding of the "contras", in contradistinction to serious substantiated charges about contra corruption, in contradis- tinction to the overwhelming opinion of Latin American Countries in opposition to a continuation of U.S. intervention, the U.S. House of Representatives has acceded to Reagan's demands to prosecute the war in central America further. This event, the vote in the House, has major implications. It is the lowest and most abject level to which the "Democratic" Party has ever sunk. Furthermore, it stands as a milestone in the consolidation of power by the "conservative revolution" which seeks, under guises suchs as "democracy", "championing of the middle classes ", "defender of the faith" etc., to do none other than secure the triumph of a megacorporate oligarchy hardly distinguishable from any other form of tyranny including the soviet form. Among those who should receive THE MOST SEVERE CRIRICISM at this hour are those silent-academicians who object not at all when the grossest falsifications are offered up as justifications for the reagan-crusades. Who thwarted democracy in central-america for a hundred years, somebody from beyond the seas?, some alien bogeyman? When reagan talks about "restoring democracy" in Nicaragua, where is the tidal wave of academicians who should rise up to remind him of the earlier examples of the policy he is espousing (Guatemala, Chile ...). Where are the jurists and the historians to speak about international law? where are the logicians to speak of the logical inconsistency of reagan's south africa policy with his central america policy. YOU, if you are one of these Herr Professor Doktor Nebentitel Hintertitel types, you are a pillar of the new american paternalism, the reassertion of might is right and bigger is better. The University, if it still exists, if it ever existed weeps over your silence!!!!!!!!!!! ---- -------