Posted on 05/02/2013 10:02:57 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
...Ricardo is serving three years for "pre-criminal dangerousness". He was arrested for having no job and associating with "undesirable elements". "I didn't rob, or kill, or anything. They labelled me 'dangerous' just for spending time with former prisoners and sent me here."...
Proportionately, communist Cuba has one of the highest prison populations in the world, with over 57,000 inmates spread across 200 facilities in a country of 11.3 million people....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Don’t give Big Sis any ideas!
The US has 2% of our population in jail.
That’s 4 times the rate of Cuba.
Hey that’s great! Now fascist Napolitano can use it as an international precedent to just round up all the dangerous tea party patriots and toss them into the slammer.
People are imprisoned for the intent already.
Maybe we can send Biden to Cuba.
This “dangerousness” has been going on since at least the early 90s. If the goons spots some young men hanging around as young men do, they are rounded up, taken to the local station house, fingerprinted, mug shot taken then released. The young men then have records and it can be used against them if they’re ever picked for even an insignificant misdemeanor, they can be sent to a reeducation camp.
Hello, bbc, this is nothing new. It has been in effect since early in the Castro takeover, and was documented in the 1984 film Improper Conduct by Néstor Almendros.
The early 1960s, not the 1990s.
I’m sure it was, but I was stationed in Havana in the 90s. I could see it up close and personal.
That is very interesting. Did you work at the Section? I was there then too. And as someone interested in - and therefore informed about - the culture and the system, my knowledge went beyond the anecdotal events that I happened to see in front of my face. Las leyes de peligrosidad go back to the 1960s, when the UMAP camps were constructed.
Yes. I worked at the Section for four years 1993-1997. I lived at the corner of First Avenue and 30th Street in Miramar. It was a good post because we had such great people. It is definitely not a non-hacker post. One becomes a hunter-gatherer. Feel so sorry for those poor devils trapped on that island.
Did you know David Evans? And was Myrna still there as his secretary? There was a great chief at the time. Not always the case - I started going in the early 1980s, and there was constant rotation in the staff - some of them were first rate, others...not so much. And at one time there were a lot of really ugly fat girls in secretarial posts. But then, the young marines were always kind of wonderful...
Those names don’t ring a bell. While we were there, the Marine House was moved to 26th Street, two streets over from my house. That was where we spent most of our off-duty time. Great group of Marines.
I remember the marine house from the 1980s, went there once with a marine. I know that the non-fraternization policy made their social lives very limited.
It’s called “Moscow Rules.” Absolutely no fraternization with those beautiful, scantily clad Cuban lassies parading up and down Fifth Avenue. It isn’t easy for those Marines, who would really rather be in Stockholm or Paris.
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