Reply #34: I gotta laugh at people who say Cuban elections are rigged, when elections in the USA are:

[Peace Patriot]

1. Entirely determined by electronic voting systems, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, now largely (80%) owned and controlled by ONE, private, far rightwing-connected corporation--ES&S, which just bought out Diebold--with virtually no audit/recount controls;

2. The filthiest elections on earth, drenched in corporate money; and

3. Further rigged by the corpo-fascist media, which effectively controls our public TV/radio airwaves and skews our national political dialogue to the far, far right.

We are a country where the president dragged us into a war that nearly 60% of the people opposed (Feb. '03, all polls), in which some 100,000 innocent people were slaughtered, to steal their oil; where the corpo-fascist press, including once-reputable news organizations like the New York Slimes, colluded on government lies about the war; a country where egregious violations of the Constitution, the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the Uniform Code of Military Justice and numerous other laws and treaties passed by Congress were violated with complete impunity; where the war profiteers and the banksters have robbed us blind--literally, unfriggingbelievable outright robbery--with compete impunity; where outsourcing of jobs and destruction of the US manufacturing base are rewarded with tax breaks; where the rich control the tax code, and where now we are facing Great Depression II because of all of this mind-boggling lawlessness.

And these people scoff at Cuba's elections? That is humorous.