XPost: can.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:17:58 -0800, Alan Baker wrote:   
      
   > On 2014-12-18 21:13:05 +0000, (ಠ_ಠ) said:   
   >   
   >> Kim Dobranski aka Chom Noamsky wrote:   
   >>> Thousands of Cuban doctors have served in Venezuela in trade for oil,   
   complete   
   >>> with minders to make sure they don't fly the coup.  They are generally   
   treated   
   >>> like indentured servants and not very happy with the arrangement.  When the   
   >>> Cuban state invests in a medical professional, it owns you.  You can get   
   good   
   >>> value out of anyone if the person has no say in what the value of their   
   >>> services is, i.e., a slave.  Hey, so maybe they are efficient at managing   
   >>> ebola, but do they have a choice in the matter?   
   >>   
   >> You're so desperate to disparage Cuba that you've reached for a single   
   >> article from an anti-Castro, anti-   
   >> Cuba dissident and spread his agenda like it was a fact.   
   >>   
   >> Cuban doctors are world-renowned for being highly educated, better   
   >> trained than most doctors around the globe, and willing to go to   
   >> countries that suffer disasters or need them in remote areas.   
   >>   
   >> Are your kids going to grow up as bigoted and narrow-minded as you are,   
   >> Dobranski?   
   >   
   >   
   > 'The government continues to rely on arbitrary detention to harass and   
   > intimidate individuals who exercise their fundamental rights. The Cuban   
   > Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation—an independent   
   > human rights group the government views as illegal—received over 3,600   
   > reports of arbitrary detentions from January through September 2013,   
   > compared to approximately 2,100 in 2010. '   
   >   
   > 'Cubans who criticize the government may face criminal prosecution.   
   > They do not benefit from due process guarantees, such as the right to   
      
   You fall afoul of Homefart Scarity sometime and tell how that due process   
   works out for you.  That's if you can still speak.   
      
   [fair shots on Cuba deleted]   
      
   I'm sure Cuba's a complete shithole in a lotta ways.   
   Most places are, and for all their own reasons.  But   
   do you somehow imagine Cuba to be, or have ever been,   
   in the same league as NORKistan?   
      
   >   
   > treatment and health care decision-making".[94] She points out that   
   > "there is no right to privacy in the physician-patient relationship in   
   > Cuba, no patients’ right of informed consent, no right to refuse   
   > treatment, and no right to protest or sue for malpractice".[94] In her   
   > view medical care in Cuba can be dehumanizing.'   
   >   
   >    
      
   How seriously do you take guarantees of privacy here?   
   Do you read the news?   
      
   Dhu   
      
      
   --   
   Ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco.   
      
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