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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.politics.usa.misc,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.130107.13459@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:01:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.232619.6118@nntp.hut.fi> <BzM9Eo.Jvt@unix.amherst.edu>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-Reply-To: pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN)
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- In article <BzM9Eo.Jvt@unix.amherst.edu>, pdchapin@unix (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
- >I suspect closer to six, since I expect it will be a long time before the
- >Europo-wimps send enough people to make a difference. (1500 from Germany.
- >Give me a break. There are football games that require more security than
- >that. 30,000 are security. 3,000 are targets).
-
- This readiness to use violence and force is also an important issue.
-
- It's really chilling to hear Bush say essentially "I will use whatever
- force is necessary" in connection with the LA riots. (chilling from
- the human viewpoint - from long-term political viewpoint discarding
- the short-term suffering it might be a good idea since escalating the
- conflict into a civil war might be one of the few ways of change).
-
- //Jyrki
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