I put up a little rant about Mr. Castro and Don Siegelman in GD.

[EFerrari]

It's not Shakespeare, but it's here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2917457

[magbana]

1. Great rant! Keep 'em coming.

Great rant! Keep ‘em coming. I saw the 60 Minutes segment on Don Siegelman tonight. What a tragic story and, of course, Karl Rove is smack dab in the middle of it. This guy deserves justice now!

And Obama yammering about freedom of the press, political prisoners, human rights, etc. in Cuba is ridiculous. For goodness sake, a Black man in America knows better. With these issues as topics on an agenda, Obama will not have to worry about getting crap for meeting with Cuba’s President (Raul, as of this afternoon) because it will never happen. The Cubans will tell him to go to hell. And maybe this is the endgame of Obama’s overall strategy.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Read your O.P. at G.D. just now. Excellent. No comparison at any level

between a nation which spends more in 12 hours on "defense" than the other one, of only 11,000,000 people, under a 45+ year old embargo, and OVER 45 years of constant terrorism, spends in an entire YEAR!

How DO our politicians keep failing to remember that the "dissidents" who have made it to prison are the ones who have been proven to be supported financially by the United States? This would send the same people to jail if this thing happened HERE, as it's against OUR LAW, as well, even though our own psychopaths are hell bent to apply double standards whenever and wherever possible.

The law, apparently, was written for countries not powerful enough to be beyond the reach of any more powerful country holding the power to destroy them, either from without, or, through subversion, from within.

Our politicians don't mention the fact the U.S. has been hard at work trying to destabilize Cuba from the beginning, because apparently they all aspire, with very few exceptions, to overthrow Cuba themselves, and make a big name for themselves.

It may be that only Jimmy Carter was willing to leave them the hell alone, and he loosened the travel ban considerably for his brief stay in the White House, only to have Ronald Reagan slam it all shut all over again.

If any candidate wants to opine about political prisoners, he/she is wise to take your advise and mull over our own situation right here. No need to breath down a tiny country's throat, while pretending their "dissidents" are simple idealists. Anything but! Our own Congress allocates millions every session to "encourage" their "democratic struggles." That money goes MUCH farther in Cuba, you can believe it, than it goes here.

(Don't forget the news we read last year about the discovery that some agencies in the U.S. had been sending them ALL kinds of luxury items:

US aid to Cuban dissidents bought chocolates, PlayStations
Thursday, November 16, 2006

by Randy Nieves-Ruiz


MIAMI, USA (AFP): Poor monitoring of millions of dollars intended to support Cuban dissidents has led to such excesses as the purchase of Godiva chocolates and Sony PlayStations at US taxpayers' expense, according to an official audit released on Wednesday.

Of 10 aid recipients audited, three were found to have "questionable expenditures," the General Accounting Office, an investigative branch of the US Congress, said in its report.

It mentioned one recipient who "could not adequately justify" the use of US Agency for International Development (USAID) funds to buy such items as "a gas chainsaw, computer gaming equipment and software (including Nintendo Gameboys and Sony PlayStations), a mountain bike, leather coats, cashmere sweaters, crab meat, and Godiva chocolates."

The group was not identified in the report, but the Miami-based Cuban Democratic Action (ADC) group admitted making such purchases with the funds, intended to provide humanitarian assistance for dissidents in Cuba.

"We don't consider it illogical that people eat chocolate in Cuba," said ADC treasurer Guillermo Castilla, stressing that such shipments were fairly rare. "Crab meat we did send more regularly," he told AFP.

He also insisted the coats and sweaters were far from a waste of money.

"There are important opposition leaders who meet diplomats in Cuba, or dignitaries who visit Cuba, it is logical they should be dressed decently," said Castilla.

More:
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000042/004264.htm

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What a bunch of freedom fighters, eh?

Marta Beatriz Roque was thrown into their slammer after her secretary of over 10 years turned state's evidence against her, and delivered complete records of payments from the U.S., rerouted through Canadian banks, etc., and she, of course, played her "ill health" card, and walked out after serving a couple of years, back to her home where she's in constant contact with both the American embassy, coming and going from that place continuously, and with the Cuban "exile" community in Miami.

She was a paid agent for U.S. sources working hard to overthrow her government, in agreement with a terrorist community in Miami which had been running terrorist raids on Cuba since the Revolution, in 1959, yet she prides herself on her martyred "dissident" claim of identity.



She feels bold enough to have told government workers spraying her neighborhood in the last couple of years to stay out of her property when they showed up to spray for the mosquitos which spread the Dengue hemorrhagic, a complete plague which was suddenly introduced to Cuba for the first time in history all at once during the 1980's.

She was cocksure enough she would not be pressured to relent to tell them to go pound sand, and stay away. Hardly the behavior of a terrified political prisoner!

If our politicans aren't prepared to deal with the truth of these things, they should be graceful enough to change the subject, and not attempt to legitimize the lie.

[EFerrari]

3. It's breathtaking how thoughtlessly American politicians repeat

RW talking points, isn't it?