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Posted on 04/12/2006 6:20:35 AM PDT by twippo
Supporters of an old anti-Castro rebellion are having difficulties getting asylum in the United States because the Patriot Act labels them terrorists.
WASHINGTON - Four decades ago, thousands of Cubans took to the Escambray mountains in a CIA-backed guerrilla war against Fidel Castro. Today, U.S. law brands them as terrorists.
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Terrorism is supposed to involve use of force or violence against **civilians**, not illegitimate governments.
By that definition,reading the Bible in public in Iran is an act of terrorism.
Perhaps you could find the defintion of a terrorist organization in the Patriot act? The definition there is circular-- any organization that engages in terrorist activity which is not defined. However, domestic terrorism is defined as any act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Hmmm... peaceful protest of an abortion clinic (trespassing) is clearly terrorism by this definition... in fact it is so broad it could mean almost anything... we get the government we deserve, by electing officials who don't even bother to read the bills they vote for.
By that definition, terrorism is simply any illegal activity, like shoplifting.
bttt
Its a crazy mixed up - f*&ked up world.
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Rahmatullah Hashemi a TALIBAN Spokesperson is now an undergraduate at Yale University holding keggers in his dormroom on the weekends probably getting taxpayer funded government grants to attend Yale and these cuban freedom fighters are labeled as terrorist under the patriot act we do get the government we deserve and voting for the single republicrat party is not going to get us anything different.
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This ambiguity is exactly why I don't like the Patriot Act. Can you imagine Janet Reno with this?
I wish they would use the P.A. to only go after the original intended offenders, like strip club owners...
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The Bush administration cannot distinguish between freedom fighters and terrorists.
Ronald Reagan must be rolling in his grave. Now all the anti-communist rebels are considered terrorists by the Bush officials.
ELEVEN TRUTHS ABOUT TYRANNY
1) Any law the electorate sees as being open to being perverted from its original intent will be perverted in a manner that exceeds the manner of perversion seen at the time.
LibertarianInExile's Corollary
Executive officials will develop implementation policies that further pervert the law from the stated intentions of those voting for it (e.g., zero-tolerance, may-issue, etc.).
2) Any law that is so difficult to pass it requires the citizens be assured it will not be a stepping stone to worse laws will in fact be a stepping stone to worse laws.
3) Any law that requires the citizens be assured the law does not mean what the citizens fear, means exactly what the citizens fear.
4) Any law passed in a good cause will be interpreted to apply to causes against the wishes of the people.
5) Any law enacted to help any one group will be applied to harm people not in that group.
6) Everything the government says will never happen will happen.
JoeSnuffy's Corollary
Elected representatives who voted for a law will later claim they had no idea that law would be 'abused,' even in the face of opponents to the law stating the contrary prior to its passage.
7) What the government says it could not foresee, the government has planned for.
8) When there is a budget shortfall to cover non-essential government services the citizens will be given the choice between higher taxes or the loss of essential government services.
9) Should the citizens mount a successful effort to stop a piece of legislation the same legislation will be passed under a different name.
10) All deprivations of freedom and choice will be increased rather than reversed.
11) Any government that has to build safeguards into a law so that it will not be abused is providing guidelines for abusing the law without violating it.
There are many in SoFla who think it's unfair that while many immigrant nationalities are fleeing communist regimes, only Cubans are always granted asylum if they reach U.S. soil.
wow, that is a good list - do you mind if I pass it on (with due credit)?
many immigrant nationalities are fleeing communist regimes
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Like who? Name them. I've got N. Korea, Cuba, and maybe Belarus on my list of official commie states. OK add the PRC although after visting a couple years ago it seemed more capitalistic than the US.
You're right, I would have been more correct to have said "many immigrants" just with the population of PRC alone. Venezuela may be added to that list in the near future.
PRC has experienced economic reforms, but there is still no genuine freedom of religion, and they still force abortions and sterilizations on women.
Video of PRC government destroying a church
www.persecution.com/china/
Chinese Woman Arrested for Protesting Her Forced Abortion Tortured in Prison
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06041007.html
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