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Across the Straits:
DEFLECTING CULPABILITY -

I recently posted some gossip here culled from The Sunday Times of London. A Cuban official dropped in to read it, according to my site meter.

Yesterday, the IHT posted a report from AP indicating that Fidel Castro is putting his two cents into the issue, too. But he has conspicuously dirty hands.

The Castro Bros regime has apparently violated International Law with regard to the UN Bill of Universal Human Rights by prohibiting blogger Yoani Sanchez, who blogs across the straits, from leaving Cuba and traveling to Spain to personally accept an award for her writing and then returning home to her family.

Keeping an entire island's population prisoner and holding the key to their comings and goings is illegal by widely accepted international agreement. That makes the Castro Bros the miscreants in this matter.

Fidel Castro then attempts the spurious lawyerly trick of misdirecting the public's attention by attributing some sort of vague culpability to Ms Sanchez for mentioning to the Press that she was being prevented from attending the award ceremonies by the current regime in her country.

He is trying to blame her for critics of his transgressions; this is the classic "blame the victim" gimmick Prof Sartre was so adept at pointing out.

Prof Sartre's death does not equal a free pass
to criminal acts committed by the Castros regime.

:: IHT ::

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