OTUh, I belong to the Libertarian Party-- even carry my card with me.
Doesn't necessarily mean that you are a Libertarian in your ideals though. Hell, million's of Americans carry driver's licenses. And can tell you personally that not everyone of them know how to drive properly.
One of the sacred tenets of the Libertarian party is the sanctity of individual property rights. Something you seem quite willing to scoff at now that the Cuban government has seized those assets and made them property of the state. I guess possession is 9/10th of the law, even in Cuba... eh?
I want Cuba to do the Hungarian Waltz and let the CUBANS, NOT CUBAN-AMERICANS, enjoy the fruits of capitalism.
I just do not want to see the CUBAN-AMERICANS go back down and reclaim all that they previously stole from the CUBANS.
So I guess you don't think the Hungarian-Americans who lost everything as a result of Soviet invasion and expropriation have any rights either? And I guess every Cuban property owner in Battista's Cuba was a criminal and completely undeserving of the wealth they had developed? Even the middle class entrepreneurs, eh?
Hey, what about the Nicaraquans? The Sandinista's came to power as a result of a revolution among that country's middle class and entrepreneurial sector, and they supported the relatively small Sandinista rebels thinking that they would see Somoza's corruption overturned and their rights restored as individual property owners.
Guess they were wrong, eh? Instead they had THERE property confiscated and nationalized by the party apparatii causing them to flee to the US in droves. Daniel Ortega and Tomas Borge, the two most powerful Sandinista leaders confisted a couple of mansions and moved in (guess they didn't want to share with the "peasants" eh?)
And I guess the Jews who fled Nazi Germany, or had their gold smuggled into Switzerland by the Nazis, also had no right to seek recourse for the expropriation of those asets? What about all of those stolen paintings Goering confiscated for his own pleasure? I guess they should have been "doled out" to the German peasantry also...eh?
As for knowing Cubans, I was taught Spanish by a Cuban instructor. Her father was a refugee from Castro's Cuba who had owned a small shop and some farm land outside of Havana until it was stolen from him by Castro's henchmen in the Ministry of the Interior. I would say that's a good start... :0)
Btw, did you know that Juan Miguel Gonzalez and his father work/ed for the Ministry of the Interior? And contrary to the US Interior department, Cuba's MofI is the nation's security apparatus.
Regards,
Ron |
