[lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun Apr 13 13:17:05 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition


> 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.

Which was, incidentally, the same sort of rationale used by the McCarthiests.

-- Luke



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