"You are attacking me personally rather than attacking the subject/content of what I said. Just like a good lil' Conservative."
Some of us are capable of doing both
Anyway, This entire thing is golden if just for the first two responses by Kevin. I'm not sure how I've managed to miss this thread for so long.
On this topic of Cuba:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/op...html?tntemail0
The World's Other Tyrants, Still at Work
By ARYEH NEIER
ith international attention focused on Iraq, despots are seizing the opportunity to get rid of their opposition ? real or imagined. In Zimbabwe, Cuba and Belarus, independent journalists, opposition leaders and human rights advocates have been thrown in prison.
. . . (edited out the superfluous)
In Cuba, the war is giving Fidel Castro cover for an unprecedented assault. Over the past two weeks his state security agents have arrested about 80 dissidents. Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for 12 of those detained and 10- to 30-year prison terms for the rest. They include the economist Marta Beatriz Roque, the poet and journalist Raúl Rivero and the opposition labor activist Pedro Pablo Álvarez.
The list of arrests reads like a Who's Who of Cuban civil society ? with the obvious exception of those who were already in jail when the roundup started. They are the unsung heroes of a movement to liberate the minds of Cuba. But the names do not mean much to a world public now concentrated on becoming more and more expert on the latest in military equipment and on the geography of Iraq.
. . . (more edited, but the article is well worth reading in full.)
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