Update: Rachel Ann asked if there wasn't some sort of award that we could give these folk. Since they are unfortunately still alive they are disqualified from the Darwins. Enter the Flaming Asshole, designed for just such a circumstance. Good call Rachel!
U.S. Humanitarian Group Arrives in Cuba
120 supporters of Pastors for Peace violated the US embargo on Cuba. They arrived in good spirits with their contraband goods and t-shirts calling for regime change in the USA.
Try that again - they went to Cuba and are calling for regime change in America.
Thank God they've moved to Cuba so we won't have to deal with them any longer. What? They aren't staying in the workers' utopia? They prefer the horrific boot of the oppressive Bush regime against the back of their collective neck to living in Cuba? Damn.
Unfortunately we'll let 'em back in too. Isn't that a kicker? We'll let people violate our laws and actively court, incite, aid and abet a sworn enemy state and then we'll let them back in our country just because an accident of birth made them Americans. Try that in an Arab country.
Of course Cuba would let the people who've fled to Florida back in too. The big difference is how they'd be treated. Odd how the people who've fled from Cuba are not at all interested in returning there.
What really gets my goat is that these people won't even face charges. You see , they got around the embargo by moving their supplies through Mexico. It's not illegal to ship things to Mexico and it's not illegal to ship things from Mexico to Cuba. Although they broke the travel embargo by going to Cuba themselves that particular law is so seldom enforced as to be laughable. It's there more as a safeguard so people who go there and do end up on the wrong end of a rifle butt can't whine that Uncle Sam didn't protect them.
Oh well. Castro's a walking corpse so I'm thinking we have only another year or two of taking this crap in the exit orifice before actual beneficial regime change can happen. Until such time I wish the Pastors for Peace many a painful boil.
Okay,
They are still alive so don't quite qualify for the Darwin awards, but isn't there a lesser sort of award we could give them?
Good idea, Rachel Ann! I've awarded them the uncoveted Flaming Asshole award.
Although they broke the travel embargo by going to Cuba themselves that particular law is so seldom enforced as to be laughable.
True. My cousin went last spring. My poor aunt couldn't figure out why I got mad when she sent me pictures from his trip there.
He'd be posing in front of buildings and the streets were devoid of the one thing you'd be certain to see in any other country: natives. No Cubans anywhere.
But I'm supposed to go "Yay, rah rah, Jimmy got past George 'Selected, Not Elected' Bush and went to Cuba!" Heh. I don't think so.
Definitely worthy of the Flaming Assholes award, these creeps. Definitely.