Four Cuban Coast Guardsman defect in Key West, Fla.; still in uniform, they approach an officer

AP | 2/07/03 | TERRY SPENCER

[lsee]

So, does this mean the Cuban Coast Guard will now be flooded with job applicants?

[eyespysomething]

I'm glad I live in a country which people look to when their own government sucks.

How many people try to defect to France?

But then my paranoid side says "spies?"

[dep]

not to be paranoid or anything, but i think i'd want to quarantine these guys and their boat for awhile, and then have it swabbed from top to bottom for any little microbes they might have brought along for the ride.

dep

[SouthernFreebird]

How they'd make it to shore so easy......whos watching the seas.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

No one answered the phone at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington on Friday morning.

It snowed 6 - 9" over night here. Therefore, all govt. employees are given the day off, paid, at tax payer expense, of course...

[Nebr FAL owner]

It now appears that the Cuban govt. will have to stick a political officer on every vessel of the Cuban military & fishing fleets or even anything bigger than a inner tube from now on to keep people from defecting.When Fidel finally goes Tango Uniform the folks of the Cuban American community in southern Florida are gonna invade that island with investment money as well as journalists camcorders etc etc etc .Should prove to be interesting rubbing the noses of the closet communists=Democrats in the SH*T that is exposed . =8^)

[billorites]

"How many people try to defect to France?"

It's been a rough winter in New England. I wouldn't mind defecting to Southern France for a month or so right now.

I could be an ambassador of goodwill or something...

[stationkeeper]

WELCOME TO FREEDOM, GENTLEMEN!!

[freeper12]

>>How they'd make it to shore so easy......whos watching the seas.


Bingo, so despite the extra several hundred billion dollars in wasted security spending that has taken place since 9/11, we are no safer than before...just poorer...anyone who wants to can still simply walk/drive/boat into this country wiothout a problem.

But of course we will continue to terrorize and strip search 90 year old people at the airports...all in the name of national security.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Thats a very nice dock at the edge of Mallory Square - they run the ferries to Sunset Key from there. There's a nice Cuban restaurant about 100 yards from that spot, and the Mel Fisher museum is within a stone's throw.

Must have been a hell of a sight for the tourists.

[borkrules]

...anyone who wants to can still simply walk/drive/boat into this country wiothout a problem.

I agree. That is a problem. Couple of vials of VX or another toxin, or worse, and S. Florida has a really, really, bad day.

[scooby321]

Liberals Still Love Castro

While his people escape at any chance they have

[eyespysomething]

C'mon down here to Georgia, or even go to Florida. ALthough we've had a few freezing cold days, last Sunday it was 65 and sunny!

But the south of France?

Hmmm, I guess it wouldn't be too bad.
Good will? How about the Ambassador of Common Sense?

[eyespysomething]

He didn't defect, he ran like the chicken s*&$ he is.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.

[Hatteras]

I found this photo showing a Cuban gunboat:

That's a pretty big target slipping under the radar screen...

[TLBSHOW]

I see America freeing Cuba after North Korea!!!

Commies beware we are coming for you!