Lift the United States Embargo on Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2020-03-03 at 14:07:26 )

Lift the United States Embargo on Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger!

The United States embargo on Cuba has been in effect for 60 years. It is time to end it.

The embargo makes it a criminal offense for any United States of American to spend money in Cuba or to do business in Cuba. If an United States of American travels to Cuba and spends money there or does business there, he is subject to criminal prosecution, conviction, fine, and imprisonment by his own government upon his return to the United States.

The purpose of the embargo is regime change. The idea is to squeeze the Cuban people economically with the aim of causing discontent against Cubas communist regime. If the discontent gets significant enough, United States officials believe, the population will revolt and re-install a pro-United States regime into power.

Where is the morality in targeting the civilian population with death and impoverishment with the aim of achieving a political goal?

Is that not why we condemn terrorism?

I say "re-install" because Cuba had a pro-United States dictator in power before the Cuban revolution installed Fidel Castro into power.

The country was ruled by a man named Fulgencio Batista, one of the most brutal and corrupt dictators in the world. United States officials did not care about his tyranny because he was a pro-United States dictator - that is, one who could be counted on to do the bidding of the United States government.

But the Cuban people, who were suffering under Mr. Batistas regime, revolted against it. Successfully ousting Mr. Batista from power, new Cuban dictator Fidel Castro made it clear that he would be no such puppet.

In the eyes of United States officials, that made him a threat to "National Security."

What many United States of Americans fail to realize is that the embargo is actually an infringement on their liberty.

Under principles of freedom, people have the natural, God-given right to travel anywhere they want and spend their money any way they want. Freedom of travel and economic liberty are encompassed by the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness that the Declaration of Independence enumerates as rights that preexist government.

When the United States of American people agreed to this fundamental infringement on their rights and liberty, it was at the height of the Cold War.

United States officials told them that there was a worldwide communist conspiracy based in Russia to take over the world, especially the United States. Cuba, United States officials said, was a spearhead in that effort. If a communist regime was permitted to remain in Cuba, which is only 90 miles away from United States shores, they said, there was no way to keep America from going Red.

The irony is that the United States of America was already going socialist and without an invasion by Cuba.

That was reflected by the United States embrace of such socialist programs as Social Security, Medicare, public schooling, immigration controls, and a central bank, all of which are core elements of Cubas socialist economic system.

Terribly fearful of this supposed communist threat to conquer the United States, the American people traded away their rights and liberties for the sake of purported safety and security from communism.

The irony is that Cuba never attacked the United States and never even threatened to do so. Throughout the Cold War, it remained an impoverished Third World nation that never posed any military threat to the United States.

Instead, throughout the Cold War it was always the United States government that was the aggressor against Cuba.

Not only did the United States government target the Cuban people with its embargo, it also secretly partnered with the Mafia to assassinate Mr. Castro.

In fact, the reason that Mr. Castro invited the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles in Cuba was not to attack the United States but rather to deter the United States government from invading Cuba a second time or to defend Cuba in the event of another United States invasion of the island.

The Cold War ended some 30 years ago. Not for the Cuban people, however. When it comes to freedom and prosperity, they have been left behind, squeezed in a vise that consists of socialism on the one side and the United States embargo on the other.

Fidel Castro outlasted the embargo and the United States-Mafia murder attempts on his life and ended up dying four years ago.

Nonetheless, the embargo goes on.

It is time to bring an end to this sordid, immoral behavior on the part of United States officials.

Leave the Cuban people alone, and restore freedom to the United States of American people.

If Cubans want to end their socialist system, that is up to them to do so. The United States government has no legitimate business contributing to their suffering with its brutal economic embargo.

Moreover, the United States of American people have the right to the restoration of their rights of freedom of travel and economic liberty, which should never have been traded away in the first place.

The United States government has no legitimate authority to be prosecuting and punishing United States of Americans for exercising what are natural, God-given rights.

Lift the embargo, now. It is the morally and economically sound thing to do.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!