Reply #6: Or here. No habeas corpus; indefinite detention without trial; "no fly" lists;

[Peace Patriot]

massive government/Corpo spying. Homeland Seucrity, can, literally, pick you up in the middle of the night and 'disappear' you. We have no more "Bill of Rights" protections. They are gone--along with a whole lot of other rights, including the right to PUBLICLY counted votes.

And if you are in the military, the National Guard, or the reserves, you are quite literally slave labor, at Exxon Mobil's beck and call. Relentless, repeated, grinding, horrible tours in Occupied Iraq, to secure the oil contracts for the obscene profit of the rich.

Not to mention crippling credit card debt for essentials, no medical insurance, no job, home lost to loan sharks, pension lost to savings and loan looters or other Corpo theft, infrastructure crumbling, gas gouging, doubled price of food, no hope of a college education--too costly--and all the other ways that we are looted, plundered and oppressed.

So, sniff at Cuba, if you like--but, really, hadn't we better re-establish democracy here before we criticize others?