Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site tty3b.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!we13!tty3b!mjk From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: What Would You Do? Message-ID: <302@tty3b.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 14:10:37 EST Article-I.D.: tty3b.302 Posted: Sun Feb 12 14:10:37 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 00:49:47 EST Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill Lines: 34 Imagine the following situation (directed at Americans): - The U.S. Army has seized control of the government. - There is a curfew every night. For the most part, only soldiers are on the street. Others who are caught out are shot at random. Every morning the bodies are found, often beheaded or mutilated in other ways, on the streets and in the alleys. Those who have protested to the police quickly disappeared, and are either never found or are found dead. - No one you know has a job. Every union hall has been bombed, and many of the union leaders have been killed or are in hiding. - There are no unemployment or welfare benefits. - Most people are hungry; many are malnourished. - Churches are still around, but the largest, the Catholic Church, has been harrassed by the government. The Archbishop of New York, a critic of the government, was shot and killed at St. Patricks while saying mass. Many other priests and nuns have been killed. - The universities are closed. Many teachers have been labelled "communists" and disappeared; most people assume they are dead. What would you do? Would you hide and hope things got better? Would you try to fight back, even though you knew it would probably mean your death? Would you try to leave the country, even though you have no money and you could be killed if caught? These are decisions that everyone in El Salvador faces every day, because this is a fairly accurate picture of the situation in that country. Those to whom the opposition are "communists" should seriously ask themselves what their reaction would be to this kind of situation in this country. And then ask themselves how they feel about our country supporting this reign of terror in our names. Mike Kelly ..!ihnp4!tty3b!mjk