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- From: abrown@hpcvcec.cv.hp.com (Allen Brown)
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace: Anti-US feelings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.031915.24427@hpcvca.cv.hp.com>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:19:15 GMT
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- stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- > In article <1849@spam.ua.oz>, jaskew@spam.ua.oz (Joseph Askew) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov17.161857.24416@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> dyrda@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard Dyrda) writes:
- >>> him at the time. I'd like to show some other environmental disasters that
- >>> Greenpeace seems to have forgotten.
- >>> Yellow Rain usage in Afghanistan and SE Asia.
-
- > The whole point is that a lot of environmental extremists went to
- > great lengths to exonerate communist states in the use of yellow
- > rain, by coming up with the bee shit theory.
- Accusations such as Yellow Rain must not be done lightly, especially
- against a foreign country. It is only reasonable and prudent to
- carefully investigate alternative explanations.
-
- Also consider what it means to be an extremist. All the word really
- means is that your opinion is not close to the middle of the road at
- the time. I consider your opinions also extreme, but in the other
- direction. The environmental middle of the road has shifted a great
- deal in the last 30 years. Back then you might be considered in the
- middle. Not any more. This is not really a criticism. Its just a
- perspective. For example many people will agree that extremism in the
- defense of liberty is not a vice. But environmentalism may not be
- such a clear case.
-
- > However, the theory was shot down in flames when the former soviet
- > union released files that showed that they did, in fact, use yellow
- > rain in the very circumstances attributed to bee shit. Few serious
- > scientists ever completely accepted the bee shit argument due to the
- > huge volumes of bee shit required in very short amounts of time.
- Few serious scientists ever completely accepted the Yellow Rain theory
- either. The proof just wasn't strong enough back then.
-
- > So the bee shit theory is the atrocity cover story generated by the
- > dark side of the cold war.
- Agreed.
-
- > It turns out that now that the cold war has been won, files have
- > been released by the former soviet union that support virtually
- > every official accusation of atrocity by the US and agree in
- > incredible detail.
- I don't have access to these files. Do you?
-
- > BTW - This is way off the subject of energy.
- > Richard Stead
- True. Frankly I don't remember just who started this with comments
- about Greenpeace.
- --
- Allen C. Brown abrown@cv.hp.com or hplabs!hpcvca!abrown or "Hey you!"
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