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   XPost: soc.culture.cuba, misc.immigration.usa, soc.culture.usa   
   XPost: alt.politics.usa   
   From: web2457k@verizon.net   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:930450de-ee17-4191-a6c0-4cd19a6a973e@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...   
      
   > Mike - - - it really is going overboard. I know some Cuban officials   
   > personally. They are pretty much like you and me, just folks doing a job.   
   > We   
   > may have differences of opinions - but they are not bad people. There is   
   > an   
   > ideological wall between you and them. The wall is lower for me because I   
   > am   
   > not Cuban and don't have your passions. At least not to the degree you and   
   > other Cuba ex-patriots have.No matter how much affection I may have, I am   
   > still not Cuban and my understanding will always be limited because of   
   > that.   
   > Try as I can, I'll never be you. I don't know what it would take to make   
   > you   
   > and the guys IN Cuba realize your brotherhood and get you to reconcile.   
   > Someday it must happen. Somehow something or someone must HEAL the   
   > divisions. In that healing forgiveness has to play a role. Seeing the   
   > other   
   > guy's point of view. Somehow the two realities must someday collide. I   
   > think   
   > that both sides will have to face facts that they have been wrong about   
   > many   
   > things. Hate can make good people do evil things. It's getting to be the   
   > time for the hate to stop. It isn't going to be easy or quick.   
      
   My friend, I am not referring to decent people who think differently   
   than I do. I believe that they have an important role to play in a   
   democratic Cuba, as long as they respect my views as I respect theirs.   
      
   I am talking about the essence of a totalitarian regime. I am talking   
   about those terrorists who planned to bomb New York City in 1962, I am   
   talking about those who bombed hotels in Argentina and Uruguay and all   
   over Latin America, killing civilians.  I could probably go on for the   
   next hour and it would not be enough.There are many reasons why the   
   Castro regime is labeled a terrorist state by the State Department.   
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       Mike let's agree - a "socialist state" cannot exist outside a police   
   state. It just cannot be done without rigid police control. Without the   
   thgreat of the statre, socialism soon falls apart when people are free to   
   choose private enterprise. The ONLY way state socialism can exist is with a   
   gun to the head of the people enforcing it. It just doesn't work. it never   
   HAS worked, it enever WILL work. It never CAN work. It's like building a car   
   where all 4 wheels are driven independently and each wants to go in a   
   different directioin from the others.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)