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A Brave Man Takes on Cuba's Brutal Regime. Will the Pope Help?
Forbes ^ | 3/23/2012 | Click here to find out more! James K. Glassman James K. Glassman,

Posted on 03/23/2012 7:59:49 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA

“Police are in my house; bring summons for Oscar,” Tweeted Elsa Morejon at 11:50 Thursday morning from Havana. “Oscar” is her husband, Oscar Elias Biscet, the courageous physician who has spent 12 of his 50 years on earth in Fidel Castro’s prisons for expressing the opinion that Cubans should be free to speak their minds, to associate with whom they please, and to vote in fair elections. On Wednesday, he voiced those opinions again in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. “My country continues to be run by a brutal regime that oppresses the people, systematically violating our basic freedoms,” he wrote. “Cuba is a police state…. They beat and harass anyone seeking... more

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; pope
James K. Glassman is executive director of the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas. He is a former Undersecretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy and chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.

OSCAR ELIAS BISCET

1 posted on 03/23/2012 8:00:00 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: LibFreeUSA; Mrs. B.S. Roberts

The government of the United States of America and its State Department will voice and show more concern for the health, well being, safety and comfort of terrorists and butchers at Gitmo than they will for this brave “Freedom Fighter”.
This is what we have come down to. This may be what comes down on US.


2 posted on 03/23/2012 8:07:12 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( NY Times: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

The spark that eventually ignited the flame that opened the Berlin Wall, started in one Lutheran Church in Leipzig.


3 posted on 03/23/2012 8:10:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

Bump


4 posted on 03/23/2012 10:49:48 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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