All:
Having lived in Cuba and watched the publicly televised "enemy of the
state" executions in 1959, & having not seen anything new or different
since, I am convinced "beyond all possible doubt" that our government's
policy of returning intercepted Cubans is beyond wrong-headed. It is
complicity in murder and destruction of the true flame of liberty.
The philosophical justification is that Marxism/Communism is "morally
equivalent" to our Bible-based free-enterprise system. Look at what is
happening with Alabama's Chief Justice Moore.
That truck SHOULD BE a monument - as much of a monument as the Statue of
Liberty. Maybe we need a "Statue of Liberty South" in the form of a 51
Chevy Ton-and-1/2.
When "we" take the action of returning these Cubans to slavery,
something I thought was resolved in this country in 1865, how can "God
Bless America"?
Sorry for the rant. The issues of personal freedom and old trucks are
both "hot buttons" for me.
RT
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Kettunen [mailto:bekett@uslink.net]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:58 AM
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Raft update
The occupants were brought back to Cuba under the wet feet/dry feet
policy. (If you can get on shore in America from Cuba, you can stay, if
you are intercepted on the ocean, you have to go back.)
I think the Coast Guard's reasoning on sinking the truck is that
if it showed up in a museum somewhere, and it surely would, it would
be an inspiration to others in Cuba to try the same thing, maybe
not so successfully.
IMHO, anyone resourceful enough scrounge parts and put something
like this together in total secret and risk everything to come here
should be allowed to stay. The modifications were well thought out
and installed. If they weren't intercepted, they would probably
have made it.
Bruce K
Mt. Iron, MN
At Friday, 22 August 2003, you wrote:
>I'm not sure that I understand the deterrent argument;
>the USCG removed the people before they destroyed the
>truck. What actually happened to the occupants? Were
>they finally allowed to immigrate?
>
>Thanks for the interesting post, Tom.
>
>Drew
>
>--- Tom Warner <twwood@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Miami -
>> The Coast Guard said it was deterring copycat....
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