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From: csanders@ucbvax.ARPA (Craig S. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 19:54:01 EDT
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In article <1659@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
>
>>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%?).

He is popular in part because there is no free press in Cuba.  Just think
how Reagan uses the media to his advantage;  In Cuba, it is the same way,
except they have no New York Times or ABC-TV to expose his shortcomings.
If you have ever read '1984' you would learn that 'Big Brother' was
very popular because the government controlled media portrayed him
as a great leader.  Same principle.
>
>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.

One cannot own guns in a totalitarian society because one could threaten
the government.  However, criminals use other weapons.
>Martin Taylor
>{allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt
>{uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt


Craig Anderson
csanders@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU