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To: Destro
Sure we may belong to different parties but we hold our political life separate from our daily lives.

I don't.

Happily married for 17 years, but when I was dating politics were a potential killer. A liberal democrat has an attitude of entitlement and self-pity that drives me nuts - so why date her?

When Bill Clinton was the Commander-in-Chief, I would have paid him the proper respect his position was entitled to, even tho I found him personally & politically revolting. But I don't have any obligation to buy his book.

As a capitalist I pay for product quality.

I'm both a capitalist and a moral being. I care about product quality, but I wouldn't knowingly do business with someone that uses slave labor. Nor will I do business with someone who supports Castro, to the point of saying meeting him was a highlight of his life (not an exact quote, but close).

You are free to disregard political views in your purchases. I am free to regard them. And I do - as Americans have since they switched from tea to coffee in protest of tea taxes.

68 posted on 08/01/2004 3:52:20 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Mr Rogers

Tinseltown's top movie director, Steven Spielberg, wants NewsMax and our readers to know that Castro's regime is exploiting him with a lie.

Our columnist Humberto Fontova, zinging Castro's American groupies (shockingly, there are still plenty, even after the dictator's latest atrocities), mentioned a notorious quotation attributed to Spielberg: that meeting Castro was "the eight most important hours of [his] life."

Spielberg's people contacted our people to proclaim that the director never made any such statement and that Castro's state-run press concocted the quotation.

The fuss recalls actor Sean Penn's claims of being misquoted by Iraq's state-run media after his visit to the dictatorship of his beloved Saddam Hussein.

"Don't believe everything you read, especially in the Cuban press!" Spielberg's office wrote to us.
--Newsmax.com

Just fyi.

I agree with your sentiments, btw. Of course moral considerations can be a part of our financial choices. (And they do, whatever some may choose to believe.)


71 posted on 08/01/2004 4:24:55 AM PDT by Darkwolf377
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