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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Solon who wrote (41835)11/24/2005 8:59:08 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Cuba is very tame when it comes to slaughter.

Have you ever heard of COWS?

economictimes.indiatimes.com

MOOOO! Granny would favor this.
OK. So what we've established is it's OK to kill people but not cows. I'm working on growing the horns and tail now.

Of course, there are those who say I already have them. I expect to hear from them or have this post ported to other threads and commented on. Unlike some we know of, I don't intend to mke federl case of it though.

You guys are dumb dumb dumb! When you stole Texas, you should have stolen Cuba too. You are so dumb, I am thinking of invading you myself!
**** right we were DUMB! Instead of sending the army south, we should have sent it north! Then we wouldn't hve to put up with this insolence! We'd just deport you all to that penal colony called Austrlia!

90% of your country is rocks. I will start there...
90% of your is ice. Wait till our falmethrowers work it over!

Gonna be in Vegas Jan. 26 till Feb. 5. Pop over and have a drink on me...
Vegas. Hmmm. I'll let you know. I swore off that place last time I was there. And, NO, I DON'T gamble.

Human Rights Watch:
Despite encouraging constitutional provisions against impunity, Cuba routinely denies human rights abuses, fails to investigate or punish those who commit them, and retaliates against those who denounce them, particularly prisoners.116 The persistence of human rights violations in Cuba is undoubtedly due, in part, to the fact that Cuban officials have faced virtually no consequences for the thousands of human rights violations committed in the past forty years. Yet, Cuba has clear obligations under international law to offer effective remedies to victims of human rights abuses, arising from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Cuba's ratification of the Convention Against Torture.117

The Cuban government has committed egregious, systematic human rights violations since the 1959 revolution. But the exact numbers of victims wrongfully killed, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, arrested, or suffering other human rights abuses by the Cuban government is impossible to know, in part due to the government's secrecy about its human rights practices. Human Rights Watch has monitored human rights practices in Cuba for over ten years. During that time, we have documented scores of cases of wrongful arrests, detentions, prosecutions, exile, and other abuses. Moreover, the human rights violations committed in the early years of the Castro government stand out as particularly severe. Historian Hugh Thomas, who acknowledged the impossibility of knowing precisely how many executions and other human rights violations had occurred, estimated that by early 1961, the Cuban government had "probably" executed some 2,000 Cubans, while by 1970, the government had, "perhaps," executed 5,000.

hrw.org
How many people does a gov't get to kill before it is guilty of genocide?
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