🚀 go-pugleaf

jdean@PostOffice.chv.va.us (John Dean) wrote:



>At the end of January, 1996, an organization called Pastors for Peace
>will be delivering computers to INFOMED, a project of the National
>Center for Medical Science Information in Cuba.  

Why aren't they donating the computers to needy Americans????
Or if they feel a compelling reason to go beyond our borders to a more
needy contry, why not Haiti, the Dominican Republic, or Trinadad.  Why
give support to a government which by policy, suppresses it's people,
and holds them in virtual bondage?

The United
>Nations provided the servers for this project, but end-user terminals
>are scarce in Cuba, and any old PC, XT or AT machine will do the job.

So in other words, send them your junk.  Who cares if the 10 MB hard
drive has only 4.5 mb of readable sectors, the fan squeeels and the
monitor is dim.

>Cuba is a poor country, but it has a very good health care system, which
>delivers care to the public at no cost. 

Except for the cost of freedom, liberty, self determination, etc., for
it's people.

>  Unfortunately, the US actively
>works to keep the Cuban people from acquiring needed resources.  The
>embargo of trade and travel to Cuba has been extended, in recent years,
>to attempt to prevent other countries from trading with that nation, as
>well.  This aggressive stance by the United States has so far been
>unsuccessful in toppling the present government, but it has had the
>effect of keeping us as US citizens from knowing very much about our
>neighbor to the south.  The US embargo is universally condemned by the
>international community.

Does this make it wrong.  Just because an idea isn't popular with the
"world", is it a bad idea?  The US position is one of morality, based
on the tenants which we (most of any way) hold so dear... liberty,
freedom, self determination.  

>This aggressive stance by the United States has so far been
>unsuccessful in toppling the present government,

I love it when folks (liberals) want it both ways...boycott Rush
Limbaugh, let the embargo take it's time to work on Iraq, but... the
embargo of Cuba is wrong, imoral etc., hasn't worked and won't work.

Mark Cline