Posted on 06/17/2002 8:36:55 PM PDT by CHACHI
The embargo by the U.S. doesn't really hurt Cuba in the way that it is claimed .... and ending the embargo won't help Cuba .... except the communist Democrats really have in mind the loan guarantees that accompany the ending of the embargo.
Since all of Europe, all of South America and Canada and Mexico ALL trade with Cuba, what does Cuba need from the U.S.??? Answer: credits and loans that will never be repaid. A duped Uncle Sam who will help bail out the sinking Socialist Gulag Paradise.
No freaking way should we loan Cuba one thin centavo!! Sell them - cash on delivery ... but no loans, no gifts.
And send them all the socialist democraps to vacation there in Cuba, with one-way tickets!!
Mike
I was hoping we could get Luis Gonzalez on here to speak with him a little about how "good" the Castro regime is.
Looks like you had it pegged though in terms of timing.
That Sam11 didn't last long. Maybe he was Jimmy Carter!
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
This is 18 USC 953, the Logan Act.
It would seem that both Mr. Carter and of course Jesse Jackson are guilty of multiple violations of this law, making them felons, unless they can show concrete "authority" under which they negotiated with officials of foreign powers. I have never seen any indications of such authority. Can anyone supply evidence of such authority under which, e.g:
--Carter negotiated with North Korea;
--Carter negotiated with Castro;
--Jackson negotated with Libya;
--Jackson negotiated with Iraq;
etc?...
--Boris
--Boris
Dear Mr. Carter:
It is unconscionable that you, a man of principle that once received the highest honor of being chosen to be president of this great nation is planning to travel to the main terrorist stronghold in this hemisphere in a mission aimed to aid and abet a bloody tyrant leader of a country recognized by the U.S. State Department among the five main terrorist states in the world while undermining President Bush’s war against terrorism.
Thousands of Islamic, Spanish ETA, Colombian FARC, Irish IRA, Puerto Rican “Macheteros”, Peruvian “Sendero Luminoso,” and every other brand of terrorists and most of the guerrillas in Latin America have received haven, training, financing, logistical and intelligence support from the Cuban regime. Tens of thousands died in Latin America, Africa, Middle East and the Far East at the hands of Castro’s armies and proxies. This is not counting the tens of thousands of Cubans murdered by his infamous firing squads, over 500,000 Cubans who suffered the rigors and tortures of Castro’s political dungeons, and the untold tens of thousands who died trying to cross the Florida Straits in fragile makeshift rafts in their pursuit for freedom.
I am sure you are well informed that Castro has defaulted in all his international financial obligations and also encourages other Third World countries to do likewise. Castro stopped payments long ago on the 12 billion dollar debt to the Paris Club of European Banks. He owes over 2 billion dollars to Japan, 9 billion to Spain, 1.28 billion to Argentina and several billions more to England, Venezuela and every other of the 150 countries that were unwise enough to deal with him.
According to Euromoney’s country investment risk survey, Cuba was placed in 183rd place out of 187 countries, ranking even below Somalia. “Why then, investors may ask, should they bother with Cuba in a world replete with opportunities and more welcoming governments?” The Financial Times reported on June 30 1995. The reason is obvious: Cuba is a paradise for money laundering from terrorism, drug traffic, for hiding the proceeds from the graft and pillage of corrupt politicians, and a sanctuary for American murderers and money swindlers fugitive of the U.S. justice. No honest businessman would get involved with a criminal in a country where there is no rule of law and everybody is at the expense of Castro’s whims.
In Cuba, Castro and the State are just one and the same; he allocates the product of his joint ventures with foreigners and the income from money laundering to his accounts in Switzerland without ever passing through the Cuban Treasure. In fact, Castro, according to Forbes, is among the richest chief of state in the world while the Cuban people are kept in dire poverty.
Another factor you have to reconcile with is that every deal; every investment in Cuba is a “joint venture” in partnership with the Cuban tyrant, and that includes being part of slave labor practices, for which those entrepreneurs and multinationals, sooner or later, will pay dearly just as it happened with the companies involved in slave labor during the Nazi era. Any foreign company investing in Cuba must pay Castro between 8 to 9 thousands dollars a year for each worker they hire, Castro on the other hand, pays the worker in Cuban pesos the equivalent of $180 per year, an outrageous bribe without parallel in the world. In fact, you know quite well that the American companies are prohibited by our laws to be involved in any kind of bribe when dealing with other countries.
You had your days of glory with the Camp Davis Peace Accord, but Sadat was a patriot, a man of extraordinary courage and strong moral and religious principles. I know Castro, and Castro is not Sadat.
You also had great failures during your presidency, skyrocketing inflation, the highest interest rates and of unemployment in decades and even worse, the steep decline of U.S.’ prestige in the world.
I wonder, where you had been living for the last 43 years? Cuba is a country with state of the art chemical, biological and cyber warfare capabilities aimed against the U.S. Fidel Castro has been all his life a declared mortal enemy of the U.S. and the values it represents. This is the same dictator who urged Soviet Prime Minister, Nikita Khrushchev, to nuke our cities during the Missile Crisis, and whose henchmen took special delight in brutally torturing our P.O.W.’s during the Vietnam War. Have you forgotten the Americans taken as hostages by the Iranian hoodlums, and the Mariel boatlift?
Who do you want to emulate, the Duke of Windsor, or the English former Socialist Prime Minister of England, Loyd George, who called Hitler the “greatest living German” during a visit to Berlin in 1935? Or do you want to dethrone Prime Minister Chamberlain’s record as the greatest appeaser in history? What is the purpose of your trip to Cuba, to reward Castro with the American taxpayers largesse for all his crimes against humanity?
Mr. Carter, you were a failure as a president, but everybody acknowledges that you are a man with a good heart, please, do not destroy your good name, you are not the President of the U.S. anymore, leave it to President Bush and his most able team of foreign affairs experts to deal with Castro.
Sincerely yours.
Jesús J. Chao
carterweb@emory.edu
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