http://www.jerrybrito.com/2003/04/21/taking-exception-to-the-exception/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:03:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.jerrybrito.com/2003/04/21/taking-exception-to-the-exception/#comment-42 Jerry Brito Sat, 03 May 2003 19:08:34 +0000 http://www.jerrybrito.com/blog/2003/04/21/taking-exception-to-the-exception/#comment-42 I appreciate your comment, and I realize that there is plenty of racism still around in the old South. However, I think you do the Cuban people a disservice when you say that they are more free than some parts of South Carolina. They're not more free. You admit this much yourself when you note that people in South Carolina don't get incarcerated for peaceful protest. You qualify that by saying that there isn't much "unrest" in South Carolina either. Is the implication of this that if there were unrest in South Carolina that the governor would then be justified in incarcerating people like Castro is justified? Additionally, perhaps the reason there isn't "unrest" in South Carolina is precisely because there aren't vindictive incarcerations there like there are in Cuba? And last, let me point out that in Cuba, this "voluble unrest" you speak of is just peaceful protest mostly in the form of petitions and uncensored news articles. I'm glad, however, that you think we're a "sweet" people. I appreciate your comment, and I realize that there is plenty of racism still around in the old South. However, I think you do the Cuban people a disservice when you say that they are more free than some parts of South Carolina. They’re not more free. You admit this much yourself when you note that people in South Carolina don’t get incarcerated for peaceful protest. You qualify that by saying that there isn’t much “unrest” in South Carolina either. Is the implication of this that if there were unrest in South Carolina that the governor would then be justified in incarcerating people like Castro is justified? Additionally, perhaps the reason there isn’t “unrest” in South Carolina is precisely because there aren’t vindictive incarcerations there like there are in Cuba? And last, let me point out that in Cuba, this “voluble unrest” you speak of is just peaceful protest mostly in the form of petitions and uncensored news articles. I’m glad, however, that you think we’re a “sweet” people.

]]> http://www.jerrybrito.com/2003/04/21/taking-exception-to-the-exception/#comment-41 bmoeasy Sat, 03 May 2003 05:28:32 +0000 http://www.jerrybrito.com/blog/2003/04/21/taking-exception-to-the-exception/#comment-41 As an intelligent, well informed and well travelled Canadian let me just say there are parts of South Carolina less 'free' than Cuba. Granted, the governor of SC isn't incarcerating dissidents, but then again there doesn't seem to be much in the way of voluble unrest either. But, hey, either way the people are sweet. Bush/Castro: flip side of the same wooden nickel, baby. As an intelligent, well informed and well travelled Canadian let me just say there are parts of South Carolina less ‘free’ than Cuba. Granted, the governor of SC isn’t incarcerating dissidents, but then again there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of voluble unrest either. But, hey, either way the people are sweet. Bush/Castro: flip side of the same wooden nickel, baby.

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