]]]]]]]]]]]]] 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 * * *
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