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Posted on 08/20/2005 3:33:42 AM PDT by freedom44
HAVANA -- The Cuban government has confiscated the land where an unprecedented gathering of Cuban dissidents took place earlier this year, an activist said Friday.
Felix Bonne and his wife, who hosted the gathering on a lot next to their home, received a letter Thursday signed by an official from the agriculture ministry, said Martha Beatriz Roque, who also helped organize the gathering. The letter said the land was not being used sufficiently, Roque said.
"We feel even more repressed, more crushed, than usual," Roque told The Associated Press. "But we are not going to back off, not one millimeter."
According to Roque, Bonne's family will be allowed to continue living in their house next to the lot.
Bonne, who does not have a telephone, was not immediately available for comment, nor were government officials.
Many were surprised that the communist government had allowed the gathering to take place, and activists predicted punishment would come later, when there was less global attention on the event.
"With (this latest action) they want to show that everything belongs to the state, to Fidel Castro," Roque said. "I have no doubt that this is about May 20. It's an act of repression, at a time when the government is being very repressive."
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On or Off Cuba Ping.
Sadly, property is taken with the same excuse here in the USA.
Coming soon to a town near you courtesy the Lawgivers in Black.
You're a bit late. A better bet would be, how many comments won't be about that?
Slow to type!
Ha ha!
If another Supreme Court Justice retires, the Dims will be lobbying for the appointment of Castro.
Seriously though, let's all sit back and hold our breath waiting for the left to condem Castro for this.
Just goes to show that, even early in the morning, FReepers are on the ball (and I'd blame your ISP for being "late" :-)
Sort of reminds me of taking a farm when illegals crossing it have a hard time.
Sort of reminds me of taking a farm when illegals crossing it have a hard time.
He's ruining Cuba. Turning it into New London, CT.
So that's the foreign law the senile bastards on SCOTUS were consulting.
And in New London, the city wants back rent on the property being confiscated under the Kelo case.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467145/posts
So what do you get when combining the Supreme Court and Castro?
Cuba without the beards. I wonder if the Supreme Court will give all Americans rice cookers. No, they'd probably take them away and give them to illegals.
I'd like to see the supremes grow Fidel beards.
Although this doesn't have anything to do with this story, did you know Cuba offers tours where you live in a commune and pick oranges for three days. You get to eat Mao rice, drive a people's tractor, listen to lectures from old revolutionaries about Yankee capitalist pigs and tour the Che museum.
And the ultimate treat - you get to leave Cuba, unlike its citizens.
Sounds like Cuba has been taken over by the United States Supreme Court!!
If the devil is the living flesh of evil, then here is who I think he is. Far from appearing as a hideous demon, he is the average-looking person who walks into a room and shakes your hand with a smile. By the time he leaves, the standards of decency of everyone within that room have been lowered ever so slightly. --- A lawyer come to mind.
The letter said the land was not being used sufficiently
Then the dissidents should hold MORE meetings there.
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