Re: Castro on US elections.

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/15/00 01:13AM >>>
This discussion about Castro is going nowhere.  Brad knew, I feel confident, was
sort of response his comments would provoke.  Others are pushing the heat up
even further.  It's obviously time to stop.

Let me ask a different type of question.  Suppose Castro were to hold an
election.  Suppose he had every intention of making it free and fair.  Wouldn't
it be a disaster?  It would be open season for the CIA to try to do everything
it could to muck things up.

Can you imagine how much money Congress would willingly and openly appropriate
to support "free" elections in Cuba?

(((((((((((

CB: These Yanquis talk like Congress knows anything about organizing free and fair elections, as if the election in Florida was free and fair, as if the whole U.S. criminal injustice system is not a political system of emprisonment, of warehousing the relative surplus population, and stealing working class votes.


The Guardian (UK)

November 14, 2000

It's divine justice, Gore is told

Drugs policy denied vote to 2m blacks

By Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

Al Gore may have lost America's presidential election
not because of a badly designed ballot, dubious counting
practices in Florida or the defection of independents to
Ralph Nader, but because of the criminal justice policy he
and Bill Clinton have pursued for the past eight years:

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,397152,00.html