Forgive the late reply, I thought you were providing a random assortment of quotations from past posts rather than rebutting my arguments. So, here goes:
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I never liked space; no do I think that one part of this planet is a utopia like you seem to do. Also; could you care to explain what you mean by “the likes of you”?
Why don't you like the freezing vacuum of outer space so much? You've never been there. Also, no.
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Cuban traitors? Has it that when someone opposed Batista then they are not a traitor but when they oppose Castro then they are a traitor? Me thinks this smells of double standards.
Treachery to me involves selling out your country to foreign prurient interests. His Excellency overthrew Cuba for Cuba, and was hounded in Mexico while trying to do it. He recieved no foreign support for his revolution. The traitors and terrorists in Miami are bankrolled in the millions by Washington.
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Cuba? You speak as though Castro represents Cuba. Since he wasn’t elected I doubt people actually want him to be their leader.
Thousands of people died or were tortured to elect His Excellency. Tens of thousands risked their lives. People bled, and that is their ballot. Your clinging to the idea that he lacks a mandate simply because he wasnt chosen by the flawed and silly system of government you happen to support is nonsense. Being elected and governing by the will of the people do not always coincide.
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Your telling me that no country in South and Central America have any sovereignty?
Don't change the subject. How is it that a former colony of the US, where the US is spending 4 million a year to destroy Cuban sovereignty, how is it that a democratic system can work there? You provided a random and falacious example, but once again here's a pertinent one:
Daniel Ortega fought CIA backed mass murderers for years before finally winning in Nicaragua. The CIA backed war left 10000 dead and when Ortega finally won he held an election. The CIA and American government poured in money against him and Ortega lost. How is it you propose that will not happen in Cuba, or are you ready to admit that this is exactly what you and every other supposed champion of democracy actually wants for Cuba?
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Gandhi’s tactics meant that other countries (other then Britain) had no moral problems with supporting Gandhi cause. Also it should be noted that Gandhi and several of his colleges made it so that India was not be dependent on the British (or anyone else for that matter). As for Mandela; the peaceful tactics made it so that almost everyone put a trade embargo on the South African government and made certain that the government would fall. The government was able to keep going because of the many diamond mines the country has.
International support does not matter. Lots of people in India tried to get rid of the British Raj, Gandhi just happened to be the most organized. The desire for independence was like a landslide with many rocks tumbling to an obvious conclusion, and Gandhi just happened to be at the head of it. Before him plenty of people attacked the British, and if they'd succeeded it would have been just as well.
Mandela's tactics worked once again because the anti-african genocide was in its closing stages and had just been mostly ended legislatively in the US. Mandela took on an ailing system and won.
These are two examples that are held out to pacify(no pun intended) the weak minded. Two imperialist states were felled peacefully, but most were not. The same people who violently kicked England out of the colonies are now saying that people in a similiar situation should be peaceful? Bullshit.
I'm quite proud to renounce any pacifist leanings I previously had. Pacifism is a tool of the imperialists and will not cause any real change. Non violent civil disobedience is but a tool of the revolutionary movement, to be used to jam the gears of the imperialist machine, but the final blow to that machine must more often than not be delivered by a swift strike from a hammer.
Anti government efforts should start out as pacifist, but when the time comes to rise up in the face of brutality and repression, that's when the mettle of the leaders is tested. A good leader would do whatever was necessary to gain freedom and not cling to antiquated ideology.
And might I add that talk of pacifism and democracy seems tremendously hollow coming from you.
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Don’t forget the woman and children the Vietcong used as suicide bombers. I think they deserve some credit too.
Oh of course, just like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Cong "made" people become suicide bombers. Suicide bombing is pure and simple a side effect of imperialism and genocide. But yes, anyone who used such tactics to get the US out of Vietnam surely has my gratitude for their sacrifices.
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And how would one know the will of the people will out a referendum? Surely one can only speculate without calling for a referendum? (*wink* Cuba)
Referendums were held in Kosovo. And if a referendum were held and most Cubans wanted to return to being slaves to the empire, it would only be because the US has made life unbearable in Cuba through the blockade, terrorism, invasion attempts and provoking the government to react. It would be the same as if I threatened to shoot someone if they didnt sell themselves into slavery, and then claimed the sale was legitimate. Decisions made under such duress are illegitimate. Democracy cannot exist under threat from a nation like the US.
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American products tend to be shit, so naturally wouldn’t people want to trade with Cuba? Unless Cuban products are shit too. Plus you have Venezuela which is loyal to the Cuban government and they have all the oil you can possibly wish.
Your understanding of economics is sorely lacking, as is your comprehension of what I pointed out earlier. The US forbids the vessels of other countries from docking in Cuban ports. Thus any vessel that wishes to trade with the massive US market cannot go to Cuba.
To make a comparison in US law, look at the anti trust cases. Microsoft wouldnt work with certain companies if they provided Netscape. This was illegal. Microsoft wasn't forcing those companies not to provide Netscape, but it was using its superior economic muscle to wrongfully manipulate the market and deprive people of something. What the US is doing is on a far greater scale and far more evil.
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Do you honestly believe that Israelis are not Arab Jews? What else can they possibly be? I am not going to get into an argument with you about Israel because I think its stupid that the Jews their homeland to be in a place where everyone wants to gut them. They should have picked a place in Germany (Germans wouldn’t complain). Plus Israel is a militaristic regime so yeah…
Do you honestly believe that German Jews had that much of a different lineage? It doesnt matter what I think, nor what logic dictates. In the mind of someone intent on genocide as the Israeli government is, all that matters is that they percieve their victims as different and inferior.