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- Subject: Re: Clinton Space Position- or Henry go home
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.121753.1@max.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:17:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.143654.17945@walter.bellcore.com>, ddavey@iscp.bellcore.com (Doug Davey) writes:
- > Henry, your technical postings are probably the best things in sci.space.*.
- > However, I would respectfully ask that those who neither pay the taxes
- > nor vote in the elections kindly refrain from posting politcal analyses
- > of political statements from the USAian election campaign. If you have a
- > technical reason why something a candidate proposes is a good or bad idea,
- > fine. However, a cross border political analysis is rude at best. Thanks.
- > Stop Canadian Imperialism! Yankee Go Home! :-)
-
- > Doug Davey ddavey@iscp.bellcore.com bcr!iscp!ddavey
-
-
- I Quite disagree. Since the U.S. is at present in one of the preeminent
- positions in space technology, whatever we do affects the entire world. What
- we choose to do, and wht we choose not to do helps set the tone for the entire
- world. This means that everybody to a certain extent is going to be affected
- (in space related areas a well as others) by the up coming election.
-
- As an affected party, Mr. Spencer certainly has the right to comment upon
- the platforms proposed by the parties.
-
- And if you don't like the above logic, then as an "expert" commentator in the
- field, he has not only the right, but the duty to comment upon the platforms,
- in order to help clarify what they mean for the rest of us who choose not to
- take quite as much time deciphering the reading between the lines.
-
- The fact that someone happens to live in another country neither adds nor
- subtracts from the 'truth' of thier observations.
-
- John.
-