From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
Subject: Re: Once upon a time ...
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In article <1993Apr23.184027.4401@swan.pyr>, cgwillme@pyr.swan.ac.uk (r b willmersdorf) writes:
> american and european universities were full of Angry Young People(tm)
> that wanted to overthrow the government, and wouldn't think twice
> about lobbing a molotov cocktail at the national guard (military police
> in Europe.)

> Certainly, it would have been very bad form to take anything
> the System(tm) said at face value.

> This was in the end of the sixties and the begining of the seventies,
> I'm told. I was too young to remember.

> Something wrong happened along the way, I'm afraid.  Maybe the west
> became just too comfortable, or maybe I was born too late :(

> Yours, disappointed with with the youth of today,

Isn't it ironic.  I'm of that generation, and I remember the lesson.  I
cry to see all the postings from domestic .edu sites that have naively
swallowed everything the government has seen fit to feed to them.
Especially contrasted to such a post from the .uk yet.

>     2) There *is* a difference between lining up 90 people against the
>        wall and executing them, and causing their deaths through negligence/
>        imcompetence.  I honestly hope we witnessed the latter.  As they say,
>        the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.

I suspect we saw the latter.  However, the injustice implied in letting
those involved escape without investigation and/or prosecution is also
horrible to contemplate.
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