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on a number of issues, actually, but on Cuba, it reaches screaming, tear-out-your-hair levels--the kind of hypocrisy, I imagine, that drove Lewis Carroll to write "Through the Looking Glass" and Jonathan Swift to write "A Modest Proposal" and Stanley Kubrick to create "Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
The Cuban Five were trying to protect their country from terrorists. They were spying on Florida groups that were blowing up airliners, hotels, busses--mass murderers and terrorists who were on the CIA payroll and getting welfare checks from yet other U.S. taxpayer money pots.
They were doing PEACEFULLY what the U.S. government claims that it has a right to do, in any country in the world, and has proceeded to do on a massive basis, and not even remotely peacefully, for U.S. spy operations include assassination of anybody they damn please (no arrest, no trial, just 'you're dead') and anybody who happens to be standing nearby, kidnapping anybody they damn please and flying them in hoods and shackles half way round the world, to Guantanamo Bay or torture dungeons in Eastern Europe, or 'rendering' them to yet more torture dungeons, in Syria or other placers, and torturing helpless prisoners (no trial, no advocate, no lawyer, no recourse)--an act that is as cowardly, conscienceless and sadistic as, well, blowing up a Cubana airliner, or collapsing the WTC into its footprint, or bombing a country with no air force, or slaughtering a hundred thousand helpless civilians, then randomly arresting other civilians and torturing them.
The Cuban Five were trying to PREVENT these things from happening to their country and their people, by merely monitoring and reporting on the activities of known terrorists and plotters. And they are in a U.S. jail, and Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are running around free.
It's an upside down world--as Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift and Stanley Kubrick tried to find the words and images to describe. An opposite world. A world in which most people can't even SEE what's wrong, let alone get to fixing it. The U.S. government has been PAYING anti-Castro terrorists to BLOW PEOPLE UP, and has put people trying to prevent it IN JAIL. It is furthermore PROTECTING admitted, known anti-Castro terrorists, wanted in other countries--refusing to extradite them, in violation of yet more international laws and agreements.
And all we hear from our government about this is JABBERWOCKY.
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