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2003-05-02 Latin America

"Intellectuals" Launch Campaign to Defend Cuba

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-02 07:55 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think this is great! One more example of how totally full of shit these hypocritical bastards are.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-02 08:15:07|| 2003-05-02 08:15:07|| Front Page Top

#2 El Supremo probably executed some dissidents to celebrate...

Posted by mojo 2003-05-02 10:48:42|| 2003-05-02 10:48:42|| Front Page Top

#3 So what are the requirements for being an "intellectual"? Ability to tie your shoes? Remembering to breathe? Potty training?

Posted by Dar 2003-05-02 12:29:06|| 2003-05-02 12:29:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Dar, actually there are intellectuals with a brain. In Cuba they are called dissidents.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-05-02 12:32:10|| 2003-05-02 12:32:10|| Front Page Top

#5 '...the universal principle of national sovereignty...' yeah.
Castro should have remembered that when he sent his troops to mess things up in Angola, Mozambique, Colombia, Bolivia...for twenty years, under the orders of USSR. And his agents are working today in Venezuela to help Chavez to destroy democracy. Great intellectuals these, really great. If these morons are intellectuals, I am Mozart AND Einstein.

Posted by Poitiers 2003-05-02 10:12:14|| 2003-05-02 10:12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 It's an absolute shame that "intellectuals" continue to applaud a regime that jails other intellectuals (brave ones for a change) for 20 years just for speaking their mind.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-05-02 10:13:58|| 2003-05-02 10:13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Notice not a thing about the rights of individuals - all the "rights" they list belong to the state, and the people serve the state as personified by the leadership. Like good little communists, they cannot concieve a world where individual rights are paramount and trump the issues of "territorial integrity and national sovereingty".

Posted by OldSpook 2003-05-02 13:57:06|| 2003-05-02 13:57:06|| Front Page Top

#8 They say you can have two opinions about communism:

1) Communism is a good thing. Unfortunately it doesn't work.

2) Communism is a good thing. Unfortunately it DOES work.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-05-02 15:05:29|| 2003-05-02 15:05:29|| Front Page Top

#9 The difference between communism and capitalism is that under capitalism man oppresses man. Under communism, the reverse is true.

Posted by Tresho 2003-05-02 21:12:12|| 2003-05-02 21:12:12|| Front Page Top

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