The Evil, Immoral, Vicious, and Hypocritical Embargo Against Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2020-07-20 at 13:35:50 )

The Evil, Immoral, Vicious, and Hypocritical Embargo Against Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger!

The banality of evil that characterizes the United States national security state is demonstrated perfectly by the continuation of its deadly economic embargo against Cuba, which has been ongoing for some 60 years.

What is the point of the embargo? After all, the Pentagons, Central Intelligence Agencys, and National Security Agencys official enemy Fidel Castro died years ago. Why continue to intentionally inflict harm on the Cuban people?

And make no mistake about it: Inflicting harm on the Cuban people is the purpose of the embargo. Its aim is to impoverish or starve Cubans into ousting their post-Castro regime and installing another pro-United States right-wing brutal dictatorship similar to the one that Castro ousted from power in the Cuban revolution.

In fact, the first embargo that the United States implemented against Cuba was during the reign of the crooked, corrupt, and brutal pro-United States right-wing dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

That was an arms embargo. United States officials did not want weaponry imported into Cuba because that might enable the Cuban people to oppose Batista in a violent revolution.

During his reign, Mr. Batista partnered with the Mafia, the premier criminal organization that was smuggling drugs into the United States. As part of their partnership agreement, Mr. Batista let the Mafia operate gambling casinos in Cuba. As part of that cozy relationship, Mr. Batista would have his henchmen kidnap underaged girls in Cuba and turn them over to the Mafia, which would then provide them as perks to the high-rollers in its casinos.

That is one of the things that brought on the Cuban Revolution.

That is the guy that the United States national-security state was hell-bent on keeping in power. Thus, it should surprise no one that the Central Intelligence Agency, like Mr. Batista, later entered into partnership with the Mafia, knowing full well that the Mafia was engaged in massive criminal activity.

The purpose of the Central Intelligence Agency-Mafia partnership was assassination. They were working together to assassinate Mr. Castro.

It stands to reason that the Mafia would try to assassinate Mr. Castro. It has lost all its casinos to Fidel Castros nationalization. And it was in the business of killing people.

But the United States government? In the business of murder? And in partnership with the biggest criminal organization in the world?

Do not forget something important here: Castro, Cuba, and the Cuban people have never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. No invasion. No terrorist attacks. No assassinations.

In fact, it has always been the other way around. In the more than six decades of bad relations between Cuba and the United States, it has always been the United States government that has been the aggressor. An invasion, terrorist attacks, assassination attempts, and the embargo, all on the part of the United States government.

United States national-security state officials always justified such actions under the notion that Cuba was the spearhead of a worldwide communist conspiracy to take over the United States, one that was supposedly based in Moscow.

It was always a ridiculous notion but that was the mindset of CIA, NSA, and Pentagon officials during the Cold War - that Cubas communist regime posed a grave threat to United States "national security."

But the Cold War ended more than 30 years ago. Do the CIA, NSA, and Pentagon still think that the United States is in danger of falling to the Cuban communists?

Of course not. Now, it is just sheer viciousness. Now, it is just a matter of doing everything possible to oust the current regime in Cuba from power and restoring a Batista-like dictatorship, one that will be loyal and deferential to the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.

The viciousness is demonstrated by the fact that the embargo does not just criminalize United States of Americans who do business with Cuba. It also targets foreign companies who do so.

If they are caught doing so, they are targeted for prosecution or economic banishment here in the United States. In the minds of United States officials, it is more imperative than ever to squeeze as many Cubans as possible into death and suffering.

Needless to say, the embargo has made things significantly worse for the Cuban people during the COVID-19 crisis. That is fine with United States officials. The more Cubans who die, the greater the chance of an internal regime-change operation.

Sure, there is no doubt that Cubas socialist economic system is a major factor in the economic suffering of the Cuban people. But there is also no doubt that the United States embargo has served as the other side of a vise that has squeezed the economic lifeblood out of the Cuban people.

A dark irony, of course, is that the embargo has enabled the United States government to wield and exercise the same type of economic control over the United States of American people that the Cuban socialist regime exercises over the Cuban people. It is called adopting socialism to oppose socialism.

When will the evil, immoral, vicious, and hypocritical United States embargo against Cuba be lifted?

When a critical mass of the United States of American people, including those who go to church every Sunday, have a crisis of conscience and demand that it be lifted.

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