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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 15:29:01 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
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