[lbo-talk] Re: Cuba Petition

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 12:32 PM -0700 5/2/03, BradHatch wrote:
>I'm also curious as to why so many on the left want to buy into the 
>rightwings distorted view of human rights. Is Cuba's human rights 
>record so much worse than the other countries in the region? Why put 
>so much scrutiny into the jailing of every dissident in Cuba when 
>Columbia has the worst record of murdered journalists and Union 
>organizers? Or overlooking Mexicos human rights record in Chiapis? 
>What about the deplorable record our country has in promoting misery 
>and poverty with failed economic programs in the region?

A socialist society is and should be judged by a higher standard than 
a capitalist society, provided that we make clear that we are indeed 
using a higher standard (which both the Casey letter and the CPD 
petition fail to do).
-- 
Yoshie

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