[Mb-civic] A Devil's Island for Our Times

[Alexander Harper]

Spot on, Cheese.

Actually it is the USA's policy of blockade of Cuba, which has kept ghastly old Fidel going for all these years. He can blame all their woes on the US and keep the island on a semi-war footing to fight off the 'coming invasion'. Your very own 'Dear Leader', the ineffable George W., has also discovered how brilliantly an outside menace, the threat of a little war or two (i.e. TWAT - such a perfect acronym)can be harnessed to keep americans in their rightful position (that of the frightened ostrich)and nasty foreigners in theirs' (Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, the cemetery etc). The blockade of Cuba has been 100% counter-productive as far as the people of the US and Cuba are concerned although it does of course have the benefit of rolling in the right wing Miami cuban vote for whomever the incumbent may be come election time. Ah me, happy days...

AlBaraka

----- Original Message -----
From: Cheeseburger <maxfury at granderiver.net>
To: mb-civic at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-civic] A Devil's Island for Our Times
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:46:34 -0600

> 
> A Devil's Island for Our Times
> 
> 
> ==========
> How can we let this evil persist?
> 
> Robert Scheer
> 
> December 28 2004
> 
> It is time to invade Cuba and put an end to what has become another 
> Devil's Island in the annals of government-sanctioned torture. The 
> barbaric treatment of political prisoners on the island is made no 
> more palatable by being conducted in the name of an ideology that 
> claims to be liberating the world from its shackles.
> =======
> 
> 
> 1.  I didn't get a chance yet to read the entire article, sorry.
> 
> 2.  We invaded Cuba once before, it was a fiasco, so far, in the 
> last 45? years no President nor Congress of the USA have found it 
> palatable to go back for a rematch against such a giant (lol) as 
> Castro.
> 
> 3.  The only reason I could see a President or Congress wanting to 
> *now* invade Cuba and free all the helpless people is because of 
> the recent announcement by Fidel of a major discovery of Oil there.
> 
> 4.  Dear Mr. Scheer, let's just be realistic for a moment and 
> rephrase that paragraph above of yours with the words it should 
> have really been reading:
> 
> 
> "It is time to invade Guantanamo and Iraq and put an end to what 
> has become another Devil's Island in the annals of 
> government-sanctioned torture by the Military, the Presidency, and 
> the Government of The United States Of America. The barbaric 
> treatment of political prisoners at Guantanamo and in Iraq (and 
> Afghanistan) is made no more palatable by being conducted in the 
> name of an ideology that claims to be liberating the world from its 
> shackles."
> 
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> I realize, Mr. Scheer, that it is not very logical to actually have 
> to invade ourselves to put an end to our own government-sanctioned 
> torture and murder of 10's of thousands (or more) of both 
> "political prisoners" and plain old ordinary ruthless unarmed men 
> women and children Civilians, but seriously, who else is left who 
> could do such a job...?
> 
> But all in all, it's more likely that we will invade Cuba now that 
> Castro has announced he has "Found Oil" there, and of course that 
> way we could also establish a Fallujah gulag in the Caribbean and 
> expand Guantanamo then with no hassles at all.
> 
> It would have been nicer if we could just have prevented our own 
> government and military from carrying out war crimes and genocide 
> and concocting wars in The Middle East to secure vast caches of Oil 
> (and Real Estate), but you just can't have everything, and besides, 
> Cuba is closer.
> 
> Don't worry though Mr. Scheer, we're just a little busy right now 
> in The Middle East establishing military guarded work camps 
> populated with civilians, razing cities to the ground, making all 
> the citizens take DNA tests so we can track them when they go to 
> the toilet, and murdering 10's of thousands of men women and 
> children Civilians in cold blood, but eventually we'll get to Cuba 
> and turn it into another Iraq Project and then everyone will be 
> really happy really free and really dead, just like we like 'em, 
> and then all our cars will run that much longer with the new Cuban 
> Oil's blessing.
> 
> We just have to wait a bit however to spread our Ideology of Love 
> and Liberty to Cuba as both Jesus and Santa Claus are still busy in 
> The Middle East doing such a bang up job of spreading Democracy and 
> Freeing The People, one dead body at a time.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheeseburger
> 
> .
> 
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