This month, we honor Ben Linder, a fallen advocate for peace

Submitted by webtrainer on 4 April, 2007 - 18:53.

Author says that Ben Linder would be glad to see Ortega finally did prevail . . . I sure wish that these folks had some clue (or any interest in learning) that Ortega has changed (IMO for the worse) and that one should attempt to get an update (i.e. reality check) on their glorious visions from circa ~1980s.

For those of you who haven't heard of Ben Linder (Wikipedia entry), he was an American engineer who was killed by the Contras in 1987.

Russell Shaw writes : [snip] Twenty years ago this April 28, my fellow Portlander and heroic Central American peace advocate Ben Linder was killed by the Reagan-backed, right-wing Contras of Nicaragua.

You know, the same Contras, who, many believed, ran arms, killed Liberation Theology nuns with the blessing of blood-stained hawks and Evangelical faith-healers, types affiliated with the Reagan Administration, and may have even have fattened their wallets by running crack to the ghettoes of America. [/snip]

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Submitted by Chele John on 8 April, 2007 - 12:52.

Anyone who uses Wikipedia for a source on anything loses all credibiity with me. Give me or anyone a few minutes and Wikipedia will say whatever I want. With or without Wikipedia's claimed "oversight".

Ben Linder is gone. What he believed or didn't believe in does not exist to today.

Too many keep trying to live in the past and label the present.

It's a waste of time.

Ortega has changed. I will agree with that. He's not running things. His wife is...and that bothers lots of people. Including a lot of Sandinistas.

there are too many people . . .

Submitted by arlington on 8 April, 2007 - 13:58.

there are too many people . . . who react to tomorrow, like there was no yesterday. Knowing the past isn't necessariy living in it but, it'd be a start to not repeating it. The historical knowledge base out there is about a yard wide and a 1/2 inch deep. That's not enough ground upon which a democracy can stand.

I don't think the Wikipedia source is any more or less valid than Fox News or The New York Times. Within the last five years, most sources (once respected) have let the public down on more than one occasion and on matters far more critical that than who or what was Ben Linder. You need at least 5 varied sources these days and then you might be able to take a best three out of five opinion to get a half truth. Better include a comic in there too. They seem to do more background research than the average journaist.

Naw,

Submitted by cmoore56 on 5 April, 2007 - 07:09.

no slant here, right? ;-)

Actually

Submitted by nicaus on 5 April, 2007 - 12:49.

It was very well written, no fluff.