http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/09/fidel-castro-cuba

RIng a bell?
“All that said, given a choice between Castro and Glavin, the latter who recently apprears to be auditioning for the role of Karzai’s chai walla, I’d go with Fidel”
Okay. I get it: you didn’t really mean what you said. Fine.
And I’m going to decline to chase after whether or not Mr Glavin’s got the right position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor am I interested at the snide little dig at Karzai. Mr. Glavin’s position are his and those who are interested can go dig them out themselves. Your take on Glavin is duly noted. I insist we just agree to disagree on him.
But all that is small potatoes. You know, ‘it was 20 years ago today…’
Is there going to be a “General Jaruzelski” in Cuba after Fidel dies? I have a firm belief that Free Speech is destined to dominate the world. Even Cuba. I’m betting Yoani Sanchez believes that, too. Ahmed, why the hell won’t Fidel let the Cuban people be free?

Again, targeting of Sanchez, bad

In 1992 the same vote yielded 87 abstentions.

Marc seems selective in his application of real politique: Health care,,,’this is the best you guys are going to get’ Cuba,,,’as long as there is one goon there will be no normalization of relations’

Democratic consultant says he got a warning from White House after appearing on Fox News
‘We better not see you on again,’ the strategist says he was told by a White House official.

“I have heard that they’ve done that to others in not too subtle ways. I find it appalling. When the White House gets in the business of suppressing dissent and comment, particularly from its own party, it hurts itself.”

Some observers say White House officials might be urging consultants to spurn Fox to isolate the network and make it appear more partisan.

…Don Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, said in an interview: “This approach is out of sync with my conception of what the Obama administration stands for and what they’re trying to do.

Uh, that’s pretty clearly exactly what he did.

As for Glavin, it wasnt me who brought him up. Have a cursory read thorugh the Goldstone report, a document authored by a man of rather impecabble credentials, who identifies as a liberal Zionist with strong ties to Israel. Read about the use of white phophorus, the bombing of mosques when they were packed full of citizens at the time along with the decimation of the American university and other educational infrustructure in Gaza. Your bete noir Kucinich was one of the only members of congress to vote against condemning the report and spoke eloquantly about the cruel process happening in front of him in congress, which made a mockery of the very idea of universal rights. Glavin may care about the rights of a Cuban to blog but at the same time, post after post provides, in recycled trot language, support for the killing of 400 Palestinian children. Sorry if I dont find that all too impressive. Thats just me, man

Nice to see YOU would go with Fidel considering you live 2500 miles from him and are free to come and go and even allowed the silly, tangential right of free speech on the Internet without being picked picked up by goonish state security agents. Very brave of you. Now that you are finished with your moral ice skating, with whom should someone like Yoani Sanchez go? You see, my naive hope is that she should be able to go with prinicipled humanists like yourself and receive unqualified support. But I guess that’s too much of a stretch.

Let me also remind you that Fidel Castro and his little brother are dictators who hold the fate of millions of people in their shaky little hands. Glavin, whatever his politics, is a guy with a keyboard who holds power over nobody. If u were in power, would u send secret police to shut down Glavin and rough him up. Or would you be strong enough to let him he say what we wants and confront him in the arena of ideas?

If one was creating a fair and just society, why would there be the need for suppressing peaceful dissent such as this? On November 6, Cuba’s most prominent blogger, Yoani Sánchez, together with blogger Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo, were abducted……

You can do better than that. I like milk and so does GW Bush and so? Mr. Glavin might be a so and so hyporcrite. Excuse me, but I THOUGHT we were talking about Ms. Sanchez and the cowardly Mr. Castro..

Nice to see YOU would go with Fidel considering you live 2500 miles from him and are free to come and go and even allowed the silly, tangential right of free speech on the Internet without being picked picked up by goonish state security agents. Very brave of you. Now that you are finished with your moral ice skating, with whom should someone like Yoani Sanchez go? You see, my naive hope is that she should be able to go with prinicipled humanists like yourself and receive unqualified support. But I guess that’s too much of a stretch.

Let me also remind you that Fidel Castro and his little brother are dictators who hold the fate of millions of people in their shaky little hands. Glavin, whatever his politics, is a guy with a keyboard who holds power over nobody. If u were in power, would u send secret police to shut down Glavin and rough him up. Or would you be strong enough to let him he say what we wants and confront him in the arena of ideas?