On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
AI is not an imperialist front, but it is not socialist or even anti-imperialist either. AI's view of governments and movements defended by a number of leftists is quite different from theirs: <http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/cuba/reports.do>.
Fine; I'm not an apologist for any regime. I wish Cuba didn't imprison dissidents; I also wish it didn't have the US 90 miles offshore breathing down its neck. Amnesty reports that Cuba has 72 "prisoners of conscience." It also reports that Iran executes more people than that in a year; arrests people for merely being Christian or Ba'hai; fires into crowds of Arabs and Kurds demonstrating for their rights; etc. etc. Doug
