Reply #3: Insults are so unbecoming [View All]

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I know I've said this before, but insults only degrade the quality of this forum. It would be better if you limited yourself to the subject, rather than attacking me. Now that you've given me an opportunity to respond, I'll limit myself to quoting the man:

"What the Varela Project is advocating, and will continue to advocate, is what differentiates totalitarianism from democracy, and oppression from freedom. The Varela Project is an initiative for peace and not hatred.

We say to the Cuban leadership, without hatred but without fear, that with their absolute control, their privileges and affluence, their blindness and intolerance, they behave like an oligarchy toward the poor, who even in times of disaster are too afraid to denounce their poverty.

Confrontation is the result when the poor do not even dare to say that they are poor. We do not advocate confrontation; we advocate reconciliation and rights. We use the truth, and not the silence enforced by fear and lies. We say this to awaken the conscience of all, because Cuba must change now and change for real, which means: rights for all.

Cubans, let us raise our hearts and the light of hope."


Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas

Now the man has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hopefully, some day you will understand what all of this is about, maybe you could start by reading a very interesting book called "Forever Peace". :-)