tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post4957398383179021918..comments2023-11-16T03:57:05.158-05:00Comments on The Cuban Triangle: Six yearsPhil Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06724525896667349935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-86768130756478047182009-03-20T00:16:00.000-04:002009-03-20T00:16:00.000-04:00Why not tell me why I am wrong rather than write n...Why not tell me why I am wrong rather than write nonsense like this?leftsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676827005815770066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-40752731680585138572009-03-19T08:36:00.000-04:002009-03-19T08:36:00.000-04:00right on cue, here comes leftside to apologize for...right on cue, here comes leftside to apologize for the dictatorship. When you take a step back, it really is an amazing piece of prose -- right up there with all the historical apologies for Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., etc. -- despite the millions of deaths that came in their wake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-85972595782013939012009-03-19T01:15:00.000-04:002009-03-19T01:15:00.000-04:00In US Law, an "agent of a foreign power" is someon...In US Law, an "agent of a foreign power" is someone who works for a foreign government or "any component thereof." <BR/><BR/>No one can dispute that the vast majority of those arrested 6 years ago worked closely with the US Interest's Section - and received loads of material benefits from that relationship. We know the USIS set up a whole apparatus for these people to interact with other foreign powers and write articles for media outlets - many of which were direct or indirect entities of the US Government. It is very clear what Bush, Reich and Cason were up to. That a few dozen disgruntled people who dressed up as librarians or journalists were able to live (relatively) high on the hog because of their foreign enemy contacts simply could not tolerated - not at a time when the US Government was on the prowl against "terrorist" governments (like Cuba) and Bolton was talking about bio-weapons. <BR/><BR/>As for the speed of the trials Peters, have you read the <A HREF="http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/documents.cfm" REL="nofollow">legal sentencing documents</A>? Cuba was gathering evidence against these people for years. The reports are not polished but they are thorough. I might actually disagree with a handful of the legal stretches employed to conform to Law 88 - but the vast majority were clearly guilty. Law 88 had to be in place to counter-act aggressive US efforts to bring down the government and strangle the economy.leftsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676827005815770066noreply@blogger.com