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CheapTickets - Sign the petition: Help open travel to Cuba. (Vanity)
CheapTickets ^ | 8-28-09 | CheapTickets

Posted on 08/28/2009 9:25:44 AM PDT by AlmaKing

At CheapTickets we believe passionately in the power of travel to transform lives. And we believe that people should have the freedom to travel wherever they choose.

Americans today have the right to travel to any country in the world except Cuba. Recently, we put our support behind OpenCuba.org, a campaign that gives people a way to petition U.S. leaders to end the 50-year Cuba travel ban and give all Americans the freedom to travel to Cuba.

159 Congressmen and 29 Senators recently sponsored the bipartisan Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, which seeks to open up travel to Cuba for all U.S. citizens. The opportunity to end the 50-year ban hangs in the balance. Be part of the movement to give Americans the right to travel wherever they choose by signing the petition.

(Excerpt) Read more at opencuba.org ...


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Will this help or hurt the actual people of Cuba?

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1 posted on 08/28/2009 9:25:44 AM PDT by AlmaKing
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Will this help or hurt the actual people of Cuba?

It will (GREATLY) help the forces of darkness that have ruled that island for 50 years.Therefore it will hurt Cuba's people.

2 posted on 08/28/2009 9:30:03 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: AlmaKing

How much Toilet paper can I bring? $100 a roll should make the trip worth while.


3 posted on 08/28/2009 9:32:54 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: AlmaKing

Why not demand travel to North Korea as well?


4 posted on 08/28/2009 9:33:35 AM PDT by Carley (WHEN YOU HONOR THE DISHONORABLE YOU SHOW YOUR OWN TRUE COLORS)
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To: AlmaKing

Americans go to Cuba all the time. Try going to North Korea, I am sure they would get a kick out of it.


5 posted on 08/28/2009 9:35:40 AM PDT by GeronL (Liberalism: The gift that keeps on taking ... .. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: AlmaKing

Will that bill give Cubans the right to travel around the world too?


6 posted on 08/28/2009 9:37:12 AM PDT by GeronL (Liberalism: The gift that keeps on taking ... .. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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Will that bill give Cubans the right to travel around the world too?


7 posted on 08/28/2009 9:37:14 AM PDT by GeronL (Liberalism: The gift that keeps on taking ... .. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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It would help if they got their facts straight. Americans are permitted to travel to Cuba, they just can't spend any money to get there, while they're there, or to depart, that will end up in the Cuba Govt's hands.

Unless they're "licensed" (doesn't always actually require actual paperwork) to spend small amounts of money because their travel is for religious, educational, etc reasons.

Perhaps it's a distinction without a difference. But, despite many saying otherwise, the U.S. Govt can not prosecute you for merely traveling to Cuba.

8 posted on 08/28/2009 9:44:51 AM PDT by gdani (I've got a new road under my wheels)
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To: AlmaKing

It will hurt the people of Cuba greatly.
Remember that Cuba has no commerce —
it’s all owned by the government, so all the money you pay
to a hotel or restaurant is going directly to the dictatorship.

I will never buy travel on Cheap Tickets ag ain.


9 posted on 08/28/2009 9:55:09 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: GeronL

Great question, and the answer, of course, is NO.
Cubans need an exit visa to LEAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY.

Will that bill give Cubans the right to travel around the world too


10 posted on 08/28/2009 9:56:31 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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Cubans need an exit visa and they also need family members for their own government to hold hostage to ensure their return


11 posted on 08/28/2009 9:59:05 AM PDT by GeronL (Liberalism: The gift that keeps on taking ... .. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Gay State Conservative

This is also supported by Orbitz.
Guaranteeing I will never buy another ticket from Orbitz again.


12 posted on 08/28/2009 10:17:46 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (Why does the president have purple lips?)
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Well, I most certainly do not like Zer0’s proclamation a few months ago to allow ONLY the American families of Cuban nationals to travel to Cuba.

I seem to recall that we have these things in America called “the rule of law” and “the equal protection of law”.

Of course you would not expect an “esteemed professor of Constitutional law” such as Zer0 to know about those maxims.

/semi-sarc


13 posted on 08/28/2009 10:23:08 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Americans today have the right to travel to any country in the world except Cuba.
So what do we need to go to Cuba for? What a bunch of Commies.
14 posted on 08/28/2009 5:47:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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There is no reason to spend US dollars in a country that wants to see us fall, is there?


15 posted on 08/28/2009 5:49:03 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: SunkenCiv
Americans today have the right to travel to any country in the world except Cuba.

This begs the question as to how the Congressional Black Caucus was permitted to visit Cuba earlier this year to hobnob with Castro and friends. The guess here is that the travel restriction doesn't apply if you're a black congressional Democrat!

16 posted on 08/28/2009 7:54:24 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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Isn’t Congresswoman Maximum Waters supporting a wanted cop killer in Cuba? There was a letter posted here a couple of years ago. She wrote to Castro asking him not to extradite.


17 posted on 08/28/2009 7:58:54 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: kabumpo

Yes, I’m going to dump them also.

I have a liberal friend from college who just salivated over the idea of going to Cuba. I’m scratching my head thinking ‘why would you want to go to a dump?’ and ‘why would you want to just give your money to the dictatorship?’. Ok, so there might be some good beaches and hotels there, but they are still propped up by the gov’t and the people are forced into poverty.

Liberal thinking just makes no sense to me.


18 posted on 08/28/2009 8:41:10 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: justiceseeker93

In the halycon (or was it “Hellspawned”?) 1970s, Americans traveled to Cuba via third countries (usually Mexico); the Cubans processing their arrival would stamp a separate slip of paper (showing they’d been processed in and were in the country legally) and paperclip it to their passports, so the visitors could avoid trouble when they got back to the US customs. Unless someone there found the cigars of course. ;’)


19 posted on 08/29/2009 5:07:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Are you stupid?


20 posted on 08/29/2009 5:10:02 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Socialism is not a bad word. It is a bad concept.)
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