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>>>>>>>>>>>>> THE IEEE REWARDS A STALINISTA STOOGE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Russel C. Drew,
President, IEEE
345 E.47th Street
New York, NY 10017
20 July 1988
Dear Mr. Drew:
As a Fellow of the IEEE, I would like to congratulate you on your
August column "The Doomsdayers Are Winning," though I think the IEEE
in general, and SPECTRUM editor Christiansen in particular, deserve
much blame for leaving the moral high ground to the politically moti-
vated charlatans by failing to point out the superior safety, health-
fulness and environmental blessings of nuclear power in comparison
with our present sources of electric power.
At the same time I wish to record my deep revulsion and disgust
over the IEEE Award for Outstanding Service in the Public Interest to
an armed supporter of the Nicaraguan totalitarians who was killed by
an unknown marksman, but presumably a guerrilla fighting against the
denial of freedom and human rights by the Sandinista oppressors.
The article in the August INSTITUTE report failed to point out
that Benjamin Linder was, at the time of his death, in the company of
armed Sandinista militiamen, and was himself armed with an AK-47 gun.
In mentioning the suit brought by his family, it failed to point out
that the family, as was Linder himself, are active members of the
extreme radical left (both parents active in Soviet-subservient pro-
Sandinista organizations, their children members of the Socialist
Workers Party, the largest of the US Communist parties of the
Trotskyite persuasion).
The circumstances of Linder's death are known from Nicaraguan
villagers and have been confirmed by the US government, but the IEEE
apparently prefers to believe a group with the revealing name IEEE
Society on Social Implications of Technology.
The Sandinista oppressors are sponsored, armed and trained by
the rulers of the Soviet Empire, the nearest thing to the Nazis (have
they invaded fewer countries? Have they killed fewer people?). The
main difference is that they clothe their totalitarianism in noble
talk about human rights, peace and brotherhood of nations.
Had Linder been shot, 44 years ago, by the Maquis as an armed
helper of the Nazi stooges in Vichy France, would the IEEE have cited
him for his "high moral standard ... [that] will inspire others to
follow his idealism?"
Sincerely,
Petr Beckmann
Fellow IEEE
memb.no.5207493F