home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA!DPIROT
- From: DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
- Subject: The White Feather Campaign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.035900.1682@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
- Nntp-Posting-Host: vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:57:22 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- Several 'womens groups' have been reported in the media as
- expressing outrage at the media reports of systematized rape camps
- in Bosnia, and are demanding military intervention in Bosnia to
- bring and end to the practice.
- As has already been pointed out in several postings, the reports
- are similar to the stories that were circulated in 1914, during the
- German invasion of Belgium about nuns being raped and babies
- bayonetted by 'the Boche', that were used to stir up war sentiment
- and encourage young men to volunteer for military service, stories
- that were later found to be fictitious.
- It is likely, judging from the lack of confirming evidence and from
- the opinions of aid workers in Bosnia that the reports are greatly
- exaggerated, that the stories have been made up in order to stir up
- sympathy for a Balkan war. Recently the Bosnian government accused
- General Lewis MacKenzie, the Canadian former commander of the UN
- peace keeping forces, of raping and killing four Bosnian girls.
- This is the sort of nonsense that is coming out of that part of the
- world.
- However, even if there were some truth to the allegations, what
- seems to be happening is that the feminists are prepared to
- sacrifice the lives of young American men in order to protect the
- virtue of women. This seems to me to be a major step backward.
- What will we see next - feminists in the street handing out white
- feathers to young men to shame them into going to war to defend
- womankind from the Boche?
- Don't fall for it, guys.
-