Reply #9: Do you think the USAID giving our tax money to RW groups all over Latin America is the sign of...

[Peace Patriot]

...a democratic, liberal government? And, for that matter, giving our tax money by the multi-billions to war profiteers and banksters, while decimating our public school system and other public services, and threatening the last of the "New Deal"--Social Security and Medicare? Are those signs of a democratic, liberal government?

In Cuba, they have guaranteed housing, food, medical dare and education through graduate school. Hm, sounds liberal to me. What about democratic? Well, it may not be the kind of democracy we're used to, with billion dollar presidential campaigns, corporate-run 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines and an obviously unrepresentative Scumbag Congress (not to mention a number of state governors and legislators), but it's gotta be some kind of democracy, with those benefits for everybody.

Maybe we need to redefine democracy, from what it is here--the rich and the powerful get all the benefits--to something more like Cuba--everybody benefits. Hm?

As to what the USAID (CIA subcontractor) may have been trying to set up in Cuba--which Jewish groups in Cuba never heard of--I think I'll wait to hear what the Cubans have to say about it before I make a judgment about whether I think this trial is fair or not. The U.S. has been so brutally unfair to Cuba, and the U.S. corporate media have been such slimy, propagandistic liars about Cuba, that I can't trust any of their accounts of this situation and I think it is entirely possible that Mr. Gross was engaged in a plot to topple the government and overturn all those benefits, so the rich and the fascist can move back in, and rip off and kill the poor like the Batistas did. There is considerably more credibility behind that scenario than that Mr. Gross was innocently handing out satellite phones on our dime. We'll just have to see, won't we? Or would you suggest, um...invasion...what? Pop a few Cuban airlines out of the sky? Or just another hate session against Cuba, where all the RWers get together and vent?