And what a chasm between what I want to read and what the BG is giving me about Cuba:
"Cuba’s laws stifle dissent, report says" by Will Weissert, Associated Press | July 1, 2010
HAVANA — Cuba uses repressive laws, a well-oiled state security apparatus, and complicit courts to stifle political dissent as it harasses, spies on and imprisons those who openly oppose its communist system and creates a culture of fear inhibiting freedom of expression, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday.
I'm from AmeriKa and I can not criticize anyone.
I've got a government and MSM that do all those things.
The 35-page analysis said restrictions on expressing views deviating from the official line are “systematic and entrenched,’’ despite the government’s taking “some limited steps to address long-standing suppression of freedom of expression.’’
The difference in AmeriKa is I can be here day after day dissenting -- and even join a controlled-opposition protest if I wanted -- but NO ONE in LEADERSHIP EVER LISTENS and they NEVER DO WHAT WE WANT!!
Cuba’s government did not respond to a request for comment. It routinely dismisses international human rights groups as tools of the United States.
So do I now. Their selectivity and focus is biased towards western political interests. Yes, they may criticize the U.S. or Israel now and then but they don't stay at it -- because the funding will dry up.
For my part (and being an AmeriKan), I can not criticize other nations (unless US policy supports them) because WE HAVE ENGAGED in MASSIVE WAR CRIMES around the ENTIRE PLANET for DECADES!
We have USED WMD, MURDERED MILLIONS, and BARBARICALLY TORTURED PEOPLE -- all over LIES!!
How can I, a citizen of the Fourth Reich, criticize anyone when NO ONE is nearly as bad as we have been?
Amnesty International released its report in Madrid, saying things have been particularly bad for independent Cuban journalists who report in defiance of state controls on all media.
Sure they ain't spies?
Related: Operation Mockingbird
Oh, they ALL ARE!
Some have tried to cover street protests by relatives of political prisoners only to be detained or otherwise barred from working....
What is the big deal? American reporters get beat down all the time during protests (especially at things like political conventions)?
Oh, and then there are the hired BP thugs keeping people away from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
Any wonder why I'm sick of reading this agenda-pushing slop?
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is getting in there and doing business.
Yup, once again s***-headed government policy is leaving you behind, America.
I guess the government wouldn't want you to get a taste of that Cuban health system.
Oh, THEY TREATED the 9/11 heroes the government lied to and made sick!
The report was compiled using sources on and off the island but contained no firsthand research, because Amnesty International has been banned from visiting Cuba since 1990.
Translation: It is just another agenda-driving, ax-grinding PoS probably ordered up by the government for all we know.
Cuba’s human rights situation has been tense since the Feb. 23 death of dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo, considered by Amnesty International a prisoner of conscience, after a long hunger strike behind bars.
Must have been one of ours.
Another opposition activist, Guillermo Farinas, has refused to eat or drink since then, though he has received fluids and nutrients intravenously at a hospital near his home in central Cuba.
Yeah, the U.S. FORCE FEEDS guys at GITMO!
And that is IN CUBA, ain't it, AI?
Whassup, can't get any records from this transparent government of change?
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Related: Catholic Church says Cuba to free 52 dissidents
Amid sexual abuse scandal, focus drifted (By Laurie Goodstein and David M. Halbfinger, New York Times)
I don't know what the AmeriKan MSM is reporting on that story anymore since I don't read them. If I want to keep track of that scandal I go HERE
Also see: Cubans Holding CIA Spy
Hungry For News About Cuba
Globe's Cuban Cigar Coverage
The CIA's Cuban Cigars
Both smoke and smell the same as far as I can tell.
