Do you think that the UK counts as an exception?
Nick
In message <278A15B828BFD51180C700A0C9457DB80AE9B4@HOP-EX-1>, Lewis,Aran
M <[log in to unmask]> writes
>... and Nicaragua, and El Salvador, and Guatemala, and Somalia, and Sudan,
>and Lebanon, and Pakistan, and Mozambique ... perhaps it would be quicker to
>list the exceptions!
>
>Aran Lewis
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Robbins [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:30 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: "Keeping Hope, Conscience Alive..."
>>
>> I think a relief mission is unlikely, because I suspect the
>> Americans care about as much for the ordinary people of
>> Cuba as they do for the ordinary people of Afghanistan.
>> And Iraq. And Vietnam. And Chile. And Korea.
>>
>> Michael Robbins,
>> UEA.
>>
>> The opinions expressed in this email are my own, and do not
>> reflect the policy of UEA.
>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:41:51 +0000 Nick Moore
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > I think a relief mission to Cuba would be a wonderful thing. The
>> > Americans could mount it from Guantanamo Bay - the naval base that they
>> > have been illegally occupying for many years.
>> >
>> > Nick Moore
>> >
>> >
>> > In message <278A15B828BFD51180C700A0C9457DB80AE9AD@H
>OP-EX-1>, Lewis,Aran
>> > M <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> > >Of course Cubans can't use the internet. They can't afford such basics
>> as
>> > >soap, never mind computers, because-
>> > >"Cuba has been subjected to an illegal blockade by the U.S.
>government
>> for
>> > >40 years. This blockade applies to all goods including food, medicine,
>> books
>> > >and information.
>> > >In 1998, at the United Nations, 157 countries, including Britain, voted
>> > >against the blockade. Only 2 countries, USA and Israel, voted to
>> support it!
>> > >
>> > >Cuba has started legal proceedings to reclaim over L1 billion in
>> damages
>> > >from Washington for deaths and injuries the socialist island has
>> suffered
>> > >during 40 years of U.S. hostility.
>> > >The compensation claim demands damages for 3,478 Cubans killed and
>> 2,099
>> > >disabled as a result of "sabotage, bombings and other hostile terrorist
>> > >acts" caused by hostile U.S. government policy toward Cuba following
>> the
>> > >1959 revolution.
>> > >Lawyers will present declassified U.S. intelligence documents from the
>> > >period registering plans by the U.S. security services to destabilize
>> the
>> > >government and overthrow President Fidel Castro.
>> > >This strategy was intensified by the Helms-Burton and Torricelli Acts.
>> Track
>> > >1 of the Torricelli Act strengthened the illegal blockade. Track 2
>> funds
>> > >"non governmental organizations" such as the so-called "Friends of
>> Cuban
>> > >Libraries" (sic) formed by Robert Kent and Jorge Sanguinetty." (see
>> > >http://www.libr.org/CLSG/blockade.html)
>> > >
>> > >For the benefit of anyone who is still interested, another strand of
>> this
>> > >policy was US support (food, guns and money supplied through camps
>in
>> > >Thailand after the Vietnamese-led liberation) for the genocidal maniacs
>> of
>> > >the Khmer Rouge, because although unquestionably monstrous they
>were
>> > >hostile
>> > >to the wicked commie Vietnamese. The American-backed Khmer Rouge
>turned
>> > >the
>> > >National Library of Cambodia "into a pigsty after killing its
>> librarians and
>> > >burning and mutilating 90 per cent of the books)." (Heroes, John
>> Pilger.
>> > >Vintage, 2001. p457).
>> > >
>> > >If, as he claims, Mr Kent's campaign is not political (the standard
>> > >declaimer of the right), will he call upon his government to end the
>> > >blockade and lead an international relief effort for Cuba, so that
>> Cuban
>> > >libraries and citizens can afford to buy the books and computers he
>> purports
>> > >to wish them to have? I think not.
>> > >
>> > >Aran Lewis
>> >
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