Posted on 05/21/2002 12:19:30 PM PDT by tdadams
It's just blatant hypocrisy and double-standards. Cuba poses as much of a threat to the U.S. as Rhode Island does.
Some moral ground. Ever hear of the Log-Cabin Republicans?
I don't believe in abortion
Neither does most Libertarians. There are many pro-life Libertarians such as Ron Paul and Carla Howell. We just believe that it should never had become a federal issue. By the way, about a third of all Republicans are pro-choice (baby killing).
withdraw from world politics
Not necessarily from the world, just from the globalist organizations who keep taking our hard-earned tax dollars to prop up their tin-pot regimes.
Cuba---stick!
But not as much as Vermont. I've gots to know. I've been there.
Lukewarm? You must have been watching a different speech than I. Even Tom Brokaw commented on NBC nightly news on the excitement in the crowd.
I heard W's speech on radio...I guess the WILD APPLAUSE AND APPROVAL I heard was canned???
Yet, the libetarians want a pass on way they have a pro-choice platform. A double standard for sure by the people who fume about the GOP not agreeing with them on every single issue.
As Americans, we can travel just about anywhere we want, whenever we want, except for places that are mostly hellholes ruled by despots. A few Cubans (politicians, baseball players, musicians, etc) are not allowed to leave the island except under very limited and VERY CONTOLLED circumstances, and the rest are not allowed to leave at all. If they want to leave the island, THEY HAVE TO ESCAPE.
Now tell me -- between Cubans and Americans -- which ones have freedom and which ones are in bondage?
But we dare not admit this openly, for the phenomenon of mass denial has become our very own sacred cow. Don't touch it. Don't question it. Just do it
OK, OK. I don't believe a dog has ever run me out of a room before. But my cats (especially after a heavy meal)? Peeeeewwwww ...
This is the sort of nonsense that results when a party defines itself and its moral underpinnings solely in terms of sales
We don't define ourselves that way; free minds and free markets are flip sides of the same coin. What is moral about depriving people of the choice to buy or sell with whom they choose? What makes it wrong for Castro to do that to his people but OK for our government to do it to us?
If we can deal with China (which provides far more dangerous weapons to equally dangerous people) we can deal with this pimple on God's ass.
He is no threat and the sooner people start interacting with the Cubean people the quicker reconciliation will take place when he finally dies.
This embargo makes us look worse than a bully, it makes us look like a stupid bully.
Well let me give you one.
When Castro overthrew the Batista Government in Cuba many Americans were heavily invested in Cuba. Cuba had after all been a part of the United States. China has never been part of the USA. Cuba had become United States territory as a result of the Spanish American war. We had later granted it the status of an independant nation. The USA had several territories. Cuba, the Philipines, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Virgin Islands to name a few.
We kept Hawaii and Alaska as territories but we granted Cuba and the Philipines independance because their people wanted it. But for years both were American territories, just as Hawaii and Alaska were. At one time everything west Virgina and Georgia was a territory. So americans buying property in territories was nothing new or different.
When we granted Cuba independance as a nation. Americans were not forced to sell their property in Cuba. Like many territories America had gained in the past, Americans were encouraged to invest in cuba. They were encouraged to invest in Hawaii and Alaska too. Many continued to invest in Cuba after its independance from the United States. A long line of pro American Cuban governments welcomed American investments in Cuba. When Castro conquered Cuba it had the most viable economy in Central Amercian by far.
Americans owned sugar plantations, factories. American hotel chains like Hilton and several others, owned resorts and hotels. Many Americans owned winter homes in our former territory. They had bank accounts, cars, winter homes, and businesses there.
When Castro took over he confiscated all American property and ejected all Americans. They got to leave with the shirts on their backs. That was it. Castro refused to return Americans property. He refused to pay for it, too. In response we instituted sanctions. We have never been paid for our stolen property and the sanctions continue.
The Chinese never stole Americans property. Castro did.
You are living proof that if a dictator steals from Americans and gives us the finger long enough some stupid ignorant American will think that poor little dictator has been abused... boo hoo boo hoo.
If you got out a hisory book and read it. Or even surfed the web trying to find out what happened in Cuba, you would know. For some reason Libertarians never do that.
Only to socialists and libertarians. I wonder why that is?
I don't believe either nation should have MFN status. Does that satisfy you?
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