>Doug questions timing, which is reasonable given the slaughter of
>thousands of Iraqi in the past weeks. But, I doubt very much given
>he forwards Human Rights Watch bulletins that he wouldn't find the
>lack of procedural justice appalling and the balance of political
>views among the Cuban dissidents (ex-Marxists like Elizardo Sanchez,
>left socdems, left Christian Democrat [like a Ruben Zamora of the
>FDR-FMLN] sons of a founder of the Cuban Communist Party aka Popular
>Socialist Party, unworthy.
I'm enough of a liberal to think that procedural justice is very important. But, aside from the timing issue, which I think is critical, I'm still waiting for a good answer to a question I've asked here many times: how would you & other petition signers go about defending a revolutionary government against the machinations of the U.S., which would want to destroy you? There are real spies and plotters in Cuba, run from Miami and Langley. Hell, at this point, Washington would barely tolerate the mildest form of social democracy in Latin America. Until you can answer that question, I'm going to regard your petitions the same way I regard Nathan's view of the 82nd Airborne - as pious wishes completely removed from real history.
Doug