The US State Department web page says that the reason Americans are discouraged from traveling to Cuba is that both Cubans and visitors could be subject to surreptitious scrutiny by the regime's secret police.
The regime's secret police and methods thereof should not to be confused with the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, Guantanamo Bay political prison, secret camps for politcal prisoners in Eastern Europe, and other elements of the quickly-growing American intelligence and police apparatus that apply surreptitious scrutiny--and worse--to all Americans, visitors to America, and "persons of interest" anywhere in the world, regardless of American laws, national boundaries, or any other legal limitations of governmental power.
So whatever you do, don't go to Cuba, where you might be treated just like you are treated in America.
And if you are not American, then you probably SHOULD travel to Cuba instead of the US, where you will be treated as a guest rather than as a suspected terrorist, you will not be finger-printed and mug-shot when entering the country, and you'll be able to wear your shoes and belt when passing through airport security.
5 comments:
I think you miss the whole point of the State Department statement: Americans are nice, and America is a nice place to be. Cuba is not a nice place, and the secret police there are not nice. That's all there is to it. So, be a nice person, and stay at home!
Thanks, Cal, I appreciate the clarification. We torture political prisoners but are nice, they torture politcal prisoners but are evil. We invade countries and destroy them but we're nice, Iran meddles in its neighbor's affairs and is evil. It's all coming clear to me now, thanks again...
Yes. We torture prisoners to MAKE them nice, like we are. The great dream is that eventually everyone will be as nice as we are, and always have been!
Thanks for this as well. It helps me better understand our methods for bringing freedom, democracy and the American Way to those less fortunate than ourselves. As for making the lucky beneficiaries of our righteous efforts into citizen-consumers that will then have always been nice, I think that Misters Orwell and Huxley would be proud.
Orwell, Huxley??? Settle down, boy. Cozy up to American Idol, or you choose the channel--doesn't matter. Turn on, tune in, drop off to sleep.
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