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Judi Lynn

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2. Isn't that stupid? They always toss it into every story they write,
Fri Aug 2, 2013, 05:29 PM
Aug 2013

if it even remotely seems to relate to the story.

They never appeal to the common sense of the readers, the evidence of their own eyes, and recommend they look at the people, their clothes, their health, their attitudes on the street, their general state of well being. The U.S. public has no way of knowing, because they are FORBIDDEN to travel the 90 miles from Florida to Cuba.

So now their lie is safe with the vast majority of U.S. Americans. They could tell the US public every day Cubans have to turn themselves in to the local police and get their butts kicked before going off to work at hard labor cutting sugar cane, and that story would stick, too.

It's always almost by accident when US citizens learn that people of other countries come and go to Cuba daily, and some come and go repeatedly. You wouldn't expect that from the crappola we are fed about Cuba!

(That may also be another reason no one's in too big a hurry to drop the travel ban, since a lot of US citizens touring the island would start producing evidence we've been told nothing but lies all along for the duration of the revolutionary government.

Could also be a reason to snatch the government soon and start taking credit for how well the Cuban people seem to be doing! That will be tough to pull off as the US starts shutting down their health care and education systems, which are known throughout the world as being phenomenal. I hope the US gov't would be more decent than that, but all we have is history to guide us, after all!)

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