Comments on: Cuba–The Dream That Failed! http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/cuba-the-dream-that-failed/ Global Liberal Issues Thu, 10 May 2012 20:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred Stopsky http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/cuba-the-dream-that-failed/comment-page-1/#comment-3485 Fred Stopsky Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:26:02 +0000 http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/cuba-the-dream-that-failed/#comment-3485 I guess Human Rights Watch and just about every human rights group in the world is wrong. Please don't use the name of an intelligent political analysis who would throw up at your comments. I guess Human Rights Watch and just about every human rights group in the world is wrong. Please don’t use the name of an intelligent political analysis who would throw up at your comments.

]]> By: Walter Lippmann http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/cuba-the-dream-that-failed/comment-page-1/#comment-3480 Walter Lippmann Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:38:21 +0000 http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/cuba-the-dream-that-failed/#comment-3480 Apparently Fred has never been to Cuba, or at least there's no indication that he has from what he writes here. I agree that Cuban food often tends to be boring, but that's true of Cuban food served anywhere. The jailed dissidents weren't put there for having oppositional views, but for taking money and political direction from Washington. That kind of activity is a crime in any country. Were US radicals to take money and direction from Cuba or any other foreign country, Washington would quickly lock them up, wouldn't they? Cuba removed all its anti-gay legislation from the books over twenty years ago, while California, where I live, recently took AWAY the rights of gays and lesbians to marry. Hundreds of articles about LGBT people in Cuba, both favorable and unfavorable, including many original translations from the Cuban press, may be found at a web-page I've created to monitor these developments: http://www.walterlippmann.com/lgbt-cuba.html I hope that Obama will keep his campaign promise to allow Cuban-Americans to visit their families and send money, but he hasn't promised to allow the people of the United States the freedom to travel to Cuba and see it for themselves. That, too, would be nice. Thanks, Walter Lippmann Los Angeles, California Apparently Fred has never been to Cuba, or at least there’s no indication that he has from what he writes here. I agree that Cuban food often tends to be boring, but that’s true of Cuban food served anywhere.

The jailed dissidents weren’t put there for having oppositional views, but for taking money and political direction from Washington. That kind of activity is a crime in any country. Were US radicals to take money and direction from Cuba or any other foreign country, Washington would quickly lock them up, wouldn’t they?

Cuba removed all its anti-gay legislation from the books over twenty years ago, while California, where I live, recently took AWAY the rights of gays and lesbians to marry. Hundreds of articles about LGBT people in Cuba, both favorable and unfavorable, including many original translations from the Cuban press, may be found at a web-page I’ve created to monitor these developments:

http://www.walterlippmann.com/lgbt-cuba.html

I hope that Obama will keep his campaign promise to allow Cuban-Americans to visit their families and send money, but he hasn’t promised to allow the people of the United States the freedom to travel to Cuba and see it for themselves.

That, too, would be nice.

Thanks,

Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California

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