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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 08:31:26 EDT
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> 
> >Reagan and Castro in their own countries.  Also, we Americans who dislike
> >Reagan (I am one) are all still here and running around, while those
> >Cubans who dislike Castro are either in Miami or in jail.  Hitler could
> >and did wander about crowds of his people.  So what does that prove?
> >-- 
> >Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan
> 
> I haven't heard of a significant reduction in the Cuban population since
> Castro took power, and both Canada and the US (I believe) have a higher
> per-capita prison population.  This suggests either that the above is
> false, or that Castro is much more popular with his people than any other
> major leader (where do you see real popularity polls going much over 60%?).
> 
> If, as some have suggested, the difference between the countries is that
> Cuba bans private ownership of guns, then I say Cuba is one country with
> some sense. I wish that the US would stop shipping guns and the idea of
> guns (TV etc) across our border.
> -- 
> 
> Martin Taylor
> {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt
> {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt

Did you ever stop to think that Cuban prisons are not full because most anti-
Castro types never make it that far.  Iran murdered 10,000 of their own citizensin four years, how many did Castro murder in the past thirty years?
The prisons in the US are not full of political prisoners.  In Cuba, you would 
most likely find the ratio of political prisoners to convicted felons much 
higher than in Canada or the US.