Cuba Executes Three Charged in Ferry Hijacking

[JohnT]

I can just imagine Che sitting at his computer thinking: "God, do I want to get into this?"

[Ned]

I wonder what would have happened had the hijackers let anyone who wanted to return to Cuba off the boat?

I predict the Cubans would have shelled the remainder.

However, threatening people's lives the way these folks did, even for a noble purpose, is wrong. We, should however, protest the severity of the sentence.

Rumsfeld was asked on Meet the Press about Cuba. He said that we cannot go around the world and fix all its problems.

It looks like Fidel is safe.

I think the agreement Kennedy made is still in place.

[Master Zen]

However, threatening people's lives the way these folks did, even for a noble purpose, is wrong. We, should however, protest the severity of the sentence.

Ever heard of Texas? Harsh sentences are the norm in more than one part of the world... and I don't see the Cubans protesting. I find it strange why the US should protest against the domestic policies of other countries when it is hardly tolerant towards public criticism of its own.

[SlowwHand]

Not protesting? 17 jailed for dissention. What's that?

Here. I found something you and Che and whomever can listen to on your trip.
No thanks required. I take it as a given.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Not protesting? 17 jailed for dissention. What's that?

Protesting US harsh sentences? I don't think so. Read my post and try to understand it first. It's not too hard.

Here. I found something you and Che and whomever can listen to on your trip.
No thanks required. I take it as a given.

You know, if I actually put you in my ignore list it would make no difference since just knowing you posted would mean it was an insult/flame/provocation/or something else irrelevant.

I find it amazing how you people try to make a point when half of everything you say are just aggressive remarks. Is that because there is an overall lack of intelligent arguments from your side? I have not seen Che, GePap or myself taunt you people with stupid little pictures that have nothing to do with the argument. But go ahead, keep on doing it, the fool's on you.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Master Zen
and I don't see the Cubans protesting.

I wonder what reason there could be for little public protest of a dictator. That's like saying that you don't see protests in Chile, so everything must be OK with Pinochet.

[Master Zen]

I don't think you got what I was referring to.

Ned mentioned that the US should protest the executions of the hijakers

We, should however, protest the severity of the sentence.

by that "we" I assumed (correct me if I'm wrong) a public (i.e. government) US protest towards those executions.

I then mentioned Texas as another place where harsh sentences are given and I said that I don't hear the Cubans publically protesting that, i.e. publically interfering with the domestic affairs of another country, something that the US LOOOVES to do, but pays little attention to when it is directed at them.

[SlowwHand]

Zen, 17 jailed in Cuba, for dissention against Castro.
Can you try harder to keep up.

Another song for you.

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no
more.
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no
more.
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.

Woo! Woman, oh woman, don't treat me so mean,
You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen.
I guess if you said so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no
more.
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.

Now baby, listen baby, don't-a treat me this-a way
For I'll be back on my feet some day.

Don't care if you do 'cause it's understood
you ain't got no money you just ain't no good.

Well, I guess if you say so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no
more.
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.

(Repeat and fade)
Don't you come back no more.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Master Zen
I don't think you got what I was referring to.

Then you should have been more clear in your phrasing.

[Master Zen]

And you still didn't get it...

Enjoy your little songs, you're only making yourself look ridiculous.

And thank the lord the mods haven't taken a look here (yet). Well, even if they did you'd probably be immune. If I had posted all you have posted I would have been banned for the rest of my existence...

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Then you should have been more clear in your phrasing.

True.

But you did get it the second time around right? Because apparently Slowwhand didn't...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Che? Gone yet?

Typical anti-American.


Propaganda, I'm not wading through all that. What little I did go through as all assertion and no primary sources. Without primary sources I'm going to reject if off the top, since Stalinist apologists are among the most notorious liars in modern history. I should just as soon accept the lies of holocaust deniers.

As Stalin siad when questioned about his numerous policy turns, "Paper will put up with anything printed upon it."

[Az]

Go and add you contribution to the soviet economics thread, Che.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Azazel
Go and add you contribution to the soviet economics thread, Che.

Oh hell, it's too nice a day for this and I wanna go see Tony Bennet at the Jacksonville Jazz Fest.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
However, threatening people's lives the way these folks did, even for a noble purpose, is wrong. We, should however, protest the severity of the sentence.

Kidnapping is a capital crime in the United States. It would be pretty damned hypocitical to tell other countries they can't execute people for a crime we execute people for.