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sandmountainslim · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:18 am Post subject:

RFM,
I would like to invite you to the "Yankee and Saxon Chat" section of the ScotWatch/JRP Forums
http://sandmountain.proboards107.com/index.cgi?board=yankees
You would make an excellent bogeyman and this forum is specifically for spreading propaganda Smile

WP
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RFM · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:47 am Post subject:

Thank-you for the kind invitation Sandmountain, but my passing acquaintance with that site discourages me.
Hitler, you may recall, after being elected and assuming the powers of Chancellor and Commander in Chief of the Police and Military, through the Reichsicherheitshauptamt Act, suspended elections in 1938 and began his assumption of supreme legal, military and domestic authority. Castro has had to run for election every five years since 1976; and as I point out to agentmancuso, has never assumed or usurped the power or authority of any other Cuban governmental office. While the West has frequently charged, as they did with the USSR that an election without competing candidates is no choice at all, however in the USSR, and I am given to understand although I have no personal knowledge, in Cuba competing candidates do appear on the ballot.

sandmountainslim · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:59 am Post subject:

RFM · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:04 am Post subject:

Well you know, Sandmountain, that anybody who runs for election is liable to end up being elected. I take it a a simple minded sort of truism that a person who runs for elected office does thereby indicate they support the form of government they are running for office in. Else why bother to run?

sandmountainslim · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

RFM · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

Well good for you! Now that you are a part of government you can do something about changing it. It really is not necessary to look to foreign governments who want to interfere for help and assistance now, is it?

agentmancuso · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

RFM · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

Yes, Benjamin Franklin knew whence he spoke.
I suspect our discussion will be resolved shortly by passing events; Castro is reported to not be in good health. If the machinery of the Cuban government does what it is apparently intended to do, his demise will have no more effect on the country than George Bush's would have on America. Notwithstanding, I suspect you will see the embargo and vilification continued unless and until the Cuban community in America is allowed to return and restore the old order.
It is interesting to me that Europeans are entirely unaware of the deep racial and economic divisions thoughout South and Central America as well as the Caribbean. Historically a small white community of european descent has always kept tight control over that community's wealth and government. Cuba was the first attempt to change that scheme of things, and its success has provoked anger and outrage all over.

agentmancuso · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

RFM · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:14 am Post subject:

Yes the tactic is stupid. Worse, it is criminal. If you read the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates of 1960, you will see that American policy towards Cuba was an issue in that election. Notwithstanding Kennedy's view of accomodation and "wait and see" ,as you suggest, in one year he was nearly pushed into invading Cuba. Although he backed away at the last minute, two years later he was assassinated. It still remains to be a disgrace and a shame in the pages of American history.
Since that day American policy towards Cuba has remained exactly what Nixon had advocated in 1960.

Babygael · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:26 am Post subject:

RFM · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

It is one of humanity's tragedies, Babygael, that the New World was built on slave labor. There were essentially two forms of immigration, voluntary and involuntary. The old punishment of transportation was really remanding a human to a period of involuntary servitude, or slavery. You may also remember Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped" which began with the Uncle selling the nephew to slavery in the Carolinas in America. That was probably not an uncommon ocurrance of that time.There was another group, the Creoles as they are known in Spanish, who were the landowners who needed someone to work for nothing. They came voluntarily.
You are absolutely right that the old discrimination of slaveowner and slave is still perpetuated right down to the present day, albeit in a more disguised form. A person with a black skin in the Carribean is not a decendant of a landowner. Look at the so-called Cuban freedom groups in Miami, you won't see black faces among them. Look carefully at Fidel Castro with his kinky, black, wiry hair and beard and the color of the faces you see around him. That is what Cuba is about.
Interestingly, what you say about the Carribean is also true in the southeastern United States. Numerous dirt poor families with names like McBean, Coy, McLaughlin, etc. who are looked down upon not only by the middle-class whites but also the poor blacks. To keep them poor and divided amoung themselves, the middle classes and the ruling classes still foment the myth of racial superiority, right down to the present day. It is indeed one of human kind's greatest obscenities.

RFM · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:10 am Post subject:

To agentmancuso, Avatar, Babygael and all the rest of you:

A Very Merry Chistmas to You and Yours!

sandmountainslim · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:49 am Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:07 am Post subject:

Merry Christmas to you too RFM and have an excellent Thanks giving, wonderful Hogmany and the best new year Smile

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sandmountainslim · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

Stalin! I'm comin to join ya honey!
Looks like Castro will soon join the tyrants of old by assuming room temperature.
WP

MADRID (Reuters) - A renowned Spanish surgeon has been rushed to Cuba to treat ailing leader Fidel Castro, a Spanish newspaper reported on Sunday.

Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, an intestinal specialist, traveled to the Caribbean island on Thursday aboard an aircraft chartered by the Cuban government, according to Spain's left-leaning El Periodico de Catalunya newspaper.

The plane carried medical equipment not available in Cuba in case the leader needs further surgery due to his progressively failing health, the newspaper reported.

Garcia Sabrido will carry out tests on Castro to see if he needs another operation after undergoing emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding in July, the newspaper said.

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Officials at the Madrid hospital where Garcia Sabrido works declined to comment on the report. Cuban embassy officials were not immediately available for comment.

Cuban officials say Castro is not dying and will return to public life. His absence from the public eye has fanned speculation he is too ill to govern the country he has run since toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista in a 1959 revolution.

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Avatar · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:46 am Post subject:

Merry Christmas sandmountainslim Smile

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sandmountainslim · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject: