>>CB: If you were designing our governmental structure, what would be
>>the main features different from the U.S. system ? Would you say the
>>U.S. system , theoretcially and actually, is better than Cuba's ?
>>China's ? Is there any in the world that you prefer to the U.S.
>>system ?
>
>Well I supposed I'd prefer a parliamentary system rather than the
>three branches Justin loves so much. I do, however, cherish freedom
>of speech, assembly, and the rest, and I don't believe those prevail
>in China or Cuba (though there are other virtues Cuba can claim -
>high levels of education and health, an admirable anti-racist
>tradition, to name two).
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."
Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_
Yoshie