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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dandi on March 13, 2011, 04:39:24 PM
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The usual gaggle of communist dictator groupies show up to service Fidel, with Beth scabbing up her knees to lead the way:
alp227 (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 03:49 PM
Original message
Cuba Sentences American to 15 Years
Source: Reuters
HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state, state-run television reported on Saturday, in the latest setback to relations between two Cold War enemies.
A panel of judges reached the decision after a two-day trial last week in which prosecutors said Gross was involved in what the government described as a U.S.-funded "subversive project" to "topple the Revolution."
The case was the latest flare-up in U.S.-Cuba relations that have been sour since a 1959 revolution put Fidel Castro in power.
Gross, 61, was convicted of "acts against the independence and territorial integrity of the state" for working to set up clandestine Internet networks for Cuba dissidents using "sophisticated" communications technology.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/03/12/world/america...
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 04:04 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. He got due process. Which is more than can be said
for many American prisoners.
DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 04:40 PM
Response to Reply #4
9. Due process, you're funny
Due process is handing down the verdict the Castros have dictated.
At least they've improved down there.
Back in Che's day, Che would have just had him shot without even a show trial.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 04:46 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. More than the uncharged innocent "detainees" at Gitmo will ever get.
There is no high horse here that you can climb on.
DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #11
16. Oh yes, a special case we've had going for a few years
Is much worse than something Cuba has been doing for decades as par for the course for EVERYONE in the country.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 07:49 PM
Response to Reply #16
22. A few years? LOL!
I guess it's only a few years if you ignore the founding genocide, the infrastructure built by slaves, the ongoing denial of civil and human rights to black Americans. Immigrants in ICE detention don't have the rights of charged suspected criminals, we arm paramilitaries all around the world and our government is currently torturing an Army private for political reasons at Quantico.
Otherwise, we're cool.
Oh noes!!!11!! The patented EFerrari "LOL" attack. BTW, weren't we talking about Gitmo? How did we end up on founding genocide, slavery, and ICE? :???:
EMaserati's tag team partner steps into the ring:
Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 08:57 PM
Response to Reply #22
44. We've come a long way, haven't we? What a ####ing legacy. No wonder wingers try to revise history.
Too many reading U.S. Americans are finding out now what our heritage has really been.
DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-13-11 04:10 PM
Response to Reply #22
72. I love your constant misdirection
I would surprise me if you or any of the other Castro cheerleaders would address the issues in Cuba head-on instead of continuing your distractions.
You're kidding, right? Did you miss the Democratic Underground logo at the top of the page?
sendero (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 08:56 PM
Response to Reply #16
43. He was .
Edited on Sat Mar-12-11 08:59 PM by sendero
.... ****ing around in someone else's sandbox and he got caught. Boo hoo.
dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 04:13 PM
Response to Reply #3
5. This has got sfa to do with Cuba's human rights record
It was a clear cut case of breaking the law which in this instance is one which Cuba treats seriously.
He was charged appropriately in accordance with breaking that law.
Its quite possible than anyone other than an American may have got a lighter sentence but then no other countries were involved in the Bay of Pigs.
And on it goes.
Funny how they're all about law and order when it comes to some asshole despot's little sandbox, but here flaunting the law in the name of freedom is praiseworthy.
:banghead:
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 07:49 PM
Response to Reply #16
22. A few years? LOL!
I guess it's only a few years if you ignore the founding genocide, the infrastructure built by slaves, the ongoing denial of civil and human rights to black Americans. Immigrants in ICE detention don't have the rights of charged suspected criminals, we arm paramilitaries all around the world and our government is currently torturing an Army private for political reasons at Quantico.
Have you noticed that they've stopped daring us to challenge their patriotism?
You would think that poor, stupid Beth, jammed into that little travel trailer with her mother and two big wet dogs, out there in the California desert, would have other things to worry about. Like how to prepare the elaborate recipes she brags about on that little Coleman camping stove.
lol
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If it's so wonderful why doesn't Beth move there?
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If it's so wonderful why doesn't Beth move there?
That's been my question since.....since.....since, well, forever.
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That's been my question since.....since.....since, well, forever.
EKia will never leave this country. No other one would put up with an obvious waste of oxygen. We're stuck with her because she was born here.
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If it's so wonderful why doesn't Beth move there?
No balls and...
Hypocrisy
(See also PRETENSE.)
carry fire in one hand and water in the other To be duplicitous, to engage in double-dealing; to be two-faced, to speak with forked tongue. The expression comes from Plautus; it continues “to bear a stone in one hand, a piece of bread in the other.†Thus, the expression indicates that a person is prepared to act in totally contradictory ways to achieve his purposes.
crocodile tears Pretended or insincere tears, hypocritical weeping, false sorrow. Legend has it that a crocodile sheds tears and moans in order to lure passers-by into its clutches, and then, still weeping, devours them. A person who feigns deep sorrow in order to impress others or gain their sympathy is thus said to cry crocodile tears. This expression, in use since 1563, is found in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, (Part II): Gloucester’s show
Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile
With sorrow snares relenting passengers. (III, i)
give pap with a hatchet To do or say a kind thing in an unkind way; to administer punishment under the guise of an act of kindness or generosity. This expression derives from the title of an anonymous pamphlet published in 1589 and attributed to John Lyly. The image of an infant being fed with a hatchet gives the phrase its obvious ironic tone. The recipient experiences more harm than good, thus undercutting any illusion of good intentions and suggesting the possibility of duplicity at play.
He that so old seeks for a nurse so young, shall have pap with a hatchet for his comfort! (Alexander Niccoles, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving, 1615)
This expression usually indicates a disparity between reality and appearances, intentions, or expectations.
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The usual gaggle of communist dictator groupies show up to service Fidel, with Beth scabbing up her knees to lead the way:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4767790
Oh noes!!!11!! The patented EFerrari "LOL" attack. BTW, weren't we talking about Gitmo? How did we end up on founding genocide, slavery, and ICE? :???:
EMaserati's tag team partner steps into the ring:
You're kidding, right? Did you miss the Democratic Underground logo at the top of the page?
And on it goes.
Funny how they're all about law and order when it comes to some asshole despot's little sandbox, but here flaunting the law in the name of freedom is praiseworthy.
:banghead:
Sorry but I see her (It) more as Geo Metro (ElGeo) than a high speed European super car...
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Naa, just an EYugo.
Dear Beth, Yugo there. Please stay.
Buh-bye honey. Write when you can find some paper.
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Naa, just an EYugo.
Dear Beth, Yugo there. Please stay.
Buh-bye honey. Write when you can find some paper.
Or,
Write when you can learn how...
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 04:04 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. He got due process. Which is more than can be said
for many American prisoners.
The smartest thing ever to come out of this cloyingly ignorant bitch's mouth was Einstein's c*ck.
On second thought, I apologize for that remark...
Calling Beth a cloyingly ignorant bitch was clearly disrespectful.
To cloyingly ignorant bitches, of course.
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The smartest thing ever to come out of this cloyingly ignorant bitch's mouth was Einstein's c*ck.
On second thought, I apologize for that remark...
Calling Beth a cloyingly ignorant bitch was clearly disrespectful.
To cloyingly ignorant bitches, of course.
Also, to Einstein. Why would the smartest man who ever lived (debatable of course) have anything to do with Beth, the stupidest person on DU (indisputable).
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Why would the smartest man who ever lived (debatable of course) have anything to do with Beth, the stupidest person on DU (indisputable).
Because it probably would've been the only thing he could do to shut her the hell up.
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Well, look who's back in the DUmp! Hi Sweetie!
Like how to prepare the elaborate recipes
GOBUCKS, we know that she and her mother dine on condiment packets pilfered from the joint down the road.
EYugo makes me want to twist my head off. They mix it up over there about human right records, with EYugo saying the US is much much worse than Cuba. DissedbyBush holds up the sign with Scott Walker in the crosshairs, and says, "try this in Cuba with Castro's picture, and see what happens." EYugo says:
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-12-11 07:45 PM
Response to Reply #15
20. Apples and AA batteries, your method fails. n/t
That idiot seriously affects my blood pressure. I can't even look at that dumb avatar of hers without forcing myself to take deep breaths.
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Can someone please explain to me how what he did is any different than what that Code Pink Commie bitch Medea Benjamin did in Egypt?
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Beth, you ignorant slut! You compare treason to a guy trying to bring the information network to a suppressed people?
I thought scrunts like you were all for the internet! Don't you complain when China shuts portions of it down? Oh wait, that's us, isn't it?
Never mind. Just shove your head back up your ass! It's a cosmetic improvement anyway!
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GOBUCKS, we know that she and her mother dine on condiment packets pilfered from the joint down the road.
Now we know why poor, stupid Beth's recipes always include duck sauce and ketchup.