[Marxism] [CubaNews] ACN: Failed Counterrevolutionary Provocation in Havana

[Shane Mage]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Shane Mage wrote:
>> Those activities, however financed, were never charged as being  
>> other than
>> entirely peaceful; and "positions," however pejoratively one may
>> characterize them, are entirely exercises in political speech.
>
> I don't think that such arrests would take place if the US government
> had not been sponsoring and funding terrorist crimes over the decades,
> including the bombing of a civilian airliner. As you will recall, the
> bomber was released from all charges in an American court. If any  
> other
> country had to put up with such assaults, the guilty would not be  
> put in
> jail. They would be put under the jail.


Whatever you think about whether such arrests "would" take place "if,"  
the fact is that none of the arrests were for "activities" related in  
any way to terrorist crimes.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos