[lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>In any case, the Casey letter is not a petition but a position
>statement as to how the self-described "democratic left" regards
>the Cuban government -- as "just one more dictatorship."  The
>CPD petition is more an attempt to pass its wish for the wish
>of the Cuban people, assuming, without evidence, that the
>democratic will of the Cuban people exercising the right  to
>self-determination would necessarily coincide with its wish
>that all Cuban "political prisoners" be released.

Well in the absence of democratic elections in Cuba, who actually knows what
the self-determination of the Cuban people is?  Which is precisely the
problem.  By having a dictatorship, Castro opens the door to a range of
people to speak in the name of the Cuban people, since they can't speak for
themselves. Which makes a Bush invasion more possible since it will be done
in the name of the Cuban people with plenty of Miami Cubans speaking in the
name of a country whose people cannot themselves speak without risking jail.

-- Nathan newwman