Reply #57: I have a question... How does America treat people who...

[Devils Advocate NZ]

take money from a foreign power which has sworn to overthrow the American government, and has sponsored attacks on American soil, to campaign for just such actions in America?

Does Guantanamo Bay ring a bell? How about Camp X-ray?

Why is America allowed to arrest and imprison traitors without trial, but Cuba is not?

In fact, the linked article calls for MORE foreign support of these traitors, while totally overlooking America's actions. Where is the call from Vaclav Havel, Arpad Goncz and Lech Walesa for support for the Muslims who were rounded up after Sept 11?

"Despite the omnipresent secret police and government propaganda, thousands of Cubans have demonstrated their courage by signing petitions backing Project Varela..."

And Cuba is such an abuser of rights that these people have been rounded up and imprisioned without trial - some being sent to foreign countries to be tortured, other just locked in dog kennels without hope of justice, like the many Muslims rounded up after Sept 11?

Isn't it funny that it takes international (ie US) interference (ie money) to get these Cubans to campaign against their government?

How many times has the US tried to kill Castro? How many Cubans have been murdered by US proxy forces over the years?

And people wonder why anyone who receives outside funding to say that this sort of thing is ok is arrested as a traitor?

I can tell you one thing - I don't like the fact that these people have been arrested any more than you do - however, I like the fact that the US is worse in this regard even less. The fact that people like Vaclav Havel, Arpad Goncz and Lech Walesa can overlook one while condemning the other is rather telling of what they TRULY believe.

How would Lech Walesa have reacted if people were being paid by foreign powers to call for HIS overthrow when he was president of Poland? I'm pretty sure he would have had them arrested as traitors too.