John Pateman asked:
>>If something similar happened in the UK or the US what do you think the government reaction would be?
Similar, no doubt. That makes it OK? Now UK/US are the moral standard by which supposedly 'socialist' regimes are to be judged?
The fact is that the counter-revolutionary nationalist Castro runs an unpleasant state-capitalist regime. I don't have very much sympathy
for the pro-US-imperialist types he's apparently been locking up lately, but that doesn't mean I think they *should* be locked up. And of
course they're not the only people who have suffered over the years.
But of course the authoritarian left gets all weak at the knees when it comes to Castro. Why? Because he's so big and tall? Some of us
know what he did to the Cuban anarchist movement, for example, and I for one would not be sorry to see him toppled and strung up from the
nearest palm tree. Which doesn't mean that I think America should invade or that I support their embargo, or anything like that.
"Librarians" (if that's what they are, and I don't see it matters if they're not) in Cuba should be able to peacefully do whatever they
want, even if they are funded by the CIA/whoever. Free speech for pro-American neo-conservative feudal-throwback anti-Castro Cubans!
I think it is disgusting that some people on this list apparently think it acceptable to lock "librarians" up if they're playing for the
"wrong" team.
Dan
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