<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't think anyone's claimed that mere conversation will get you thrown in jail.  Printing up and/or distributing propaganda, however, is another story.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com href="mailto:mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com">mike larkin</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 26, 2004 5:14 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Cuban prisons</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <P>I've heard this too. A friend of mine who went to Cuba five or six years ago described going to a mass rally featuring Fidel. To get people to go there, the government closed the beaches, gave every one a paid day off, handed out free food and music, and looked the other way while half the people smoked weed and drank themselves blotto. He said people were openly contemptuous of the police and the regime when talking during Fidel's speech, with no apparent fear of informers. </P> <P> <HR SIZE=1> <FONT face=arial size=-1>Do you Yahoo!?<BR><A href="http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html"><B>Yahoo! Finance Tax Center</A></B> - File online. File on time. <P> <HR> <P></P>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>