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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (41750)	12/26/2001 6:34:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

I believe both, but I admit I'm not up on the lastest manifestations of the blockade. This is presumably a biased site, but their report that in the UN General Assembly only the US, Israel, and Uzbekistan voted against a resolution to end the blockade is probably accurate since it is easy to prove. cubasolidarity.net According to this site, again an anti-blockade site, the present law has some rather, IMO, bullying provisions. For example, "Title I restricts goods produced in third countries which contain Cuban inputs from being sold in the U.S." Thus, if Mercedes used Cuban tires, they couldn't sell their cars in the US. The act also bars executives from companies which "traffic" in property expropriated during the Castro revolution, forty-two years ago. As I read the summary, if a company has a factory on land which a US citizen had owned, their executives and major shareholders are banned from travelling to the US. I loved this response by Canada: "For Canada in particular, Helms-Burton has become a matter of pride, with that country showing a suprising level of independence from its southern neighbor. Not willing to be outdone by Senator Helms, two members of Canada's parliament, John Godfrey and Peter Milliken, have introduced legislation that allows for loyalists who fled to Canada at the time of the American Revolution to sue U.S. citizens for compensation for property confiscated by the new U.S. government in 1776. " The site: globalexchange.org IMO, the continued embargo of Cuba is a major embarrassment to the US. It's a right wing holdover which is primarily used for political purposes.