In a message dated 97-02-21 11:41:15 EST, ccashion@spdmail.spd.dsccc.com
(Charles Cashion) writes: "What about a xerox copy of a magazine article?"
For starters. The mail to Cuba takes about 2 months. It has to go to Langley,
VA to get sniffed at by the Organs of State in the (non-existent) NSA labs.
If you just send a schemo, I'd bet the dogs would only pee on your stuff a
little. Of course, they'd pee on your name in the data banks too, but that'd
be tolerable. For the moment. When they give your name to the Church of
Scientology, then you have a problem. But most of the Co$ is part of the
anti-SubGenius "con," so you'd become a de-facto mutant believer in J.R.
"Bob" Dobbs and still get off with a wrist slapping.
The truth is, anything that you can get, Cubans can get. It just takes a
little longer and it takes a lot more money. A lot more. Transistors and
tubes and the like they can get through Mexico or Canada -- two countries now
on the USA (s)hit list 'cause they don't let their international relations
and sovereignty be subjugated or perverted by the Helms-Burton law. What Cuba
can't get from Mexico or Canada they can get from China and a couple other
places with which the US has favored nation trading status, despite any
number of human rights violations.
Reminds me of this ironic quote from Fidel's Moncada Barracks Trial defense
speech:
"When men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can keep them
isolated: neither walls of prisons nor the sod of cementeries. For a single
memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single
dignity, will sustain them all."
Fidel Castro
History Will Absolve
Me
(pg 13, Jonathan
Cape, London edition, 1967)
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QRP o muerte. . .Venceremos!
Nils
WB8IJN &c
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