Targeting Cubans for Death to Win Florida by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2020-08-14 at 10:59:41 )

Targeting Cubans for Death to Win Florida by Jacob G. Hornberger!

Desperate for an electoral win in Florida in November, President Donald Trump is targeting the Cuban people with even more impoverishment, maybe even death. He just announced that he is strengthening the 60-year-old economic embargo against Cuba by ordering a cancellation of private charter flights to the island. Donald Trumps Secretary of State (and former Central Intelligence Agency Director) Mike Pompeo said, "The suspension of private charter flights will deny economic resources to the Castro regime and inhibit its capacity to carry out abuses."

Unfortunately, Mr. Pompeo failed to mention anything about the abuses that his former agency - the CIA - also carries out in Cuba. I am referring, of course, to the CIA-Pentagon torture and prison center at Guantanamo Bay, where torture, indefinite detention, denial of due process, and kangaroo military tribunals are established policies, just like on the communist side of Cuba.

Mr. Pompeo said that another reason for strengthening the embargo is the Cuban regimes support of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. But why is it not within the prerogative of any government to support any other government in the world? Let us not forget, after all, that the United States government is one of the biggest supporters of dictatorships in the world, especially the ones that it installs into power. Do the names Saudi Arabia (today), Egypt (today), Guatemala (1954), Iran (1953), Cuba (prior to 1959), and Chile (1973) come to mind, among many others?

And hey, let us not forget Vietnam! That country has been headed by a communist regime ever since it defeated the Pentagon and the CIA in the Vietnam War, killing 58,000 American men in the process. The Vietnamese communist regime has the same type of political system as the one in Cuba, one where the exercise of the rights of free speech and free assembly are not permitted.

Do Mr. Trump, Mr. Pompeo, the Pentagon, and the CIA maintain an economic embargo against Vietnam? Do they target the Vietnamese people with impoverishment and death, as they do the Cuban people?

Are you kidding?

The Pentagon and the CIA now love living in peaceful coexistence with the North Vietnam communists. Heck, the Pentagon would even like to reestablish some of its imperialist bases in Vietnam.

Let us also not forget North Korea, whose communist leader President Donald Trump, by his own admission, has fallen in love with. Why, Donald Trump even salutes communist military generals in North Korea,

So, why continue targeting the Cuban people with death and suffering?

The original purpose of the embargo was to oust Fidel Castro from power and re-install a brutal and corrupt pro-United States dictator, such as Fulgencio Batista. But that aim was never fulfilled. Fidel Castro died before they could oust him from power through coup, invasion, or revolt.

One reason for continuing to target the Cuban people with death and suffering is that the CIA and the Pentagon have still never gotten over their defeat at the Bay of Pigs and during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

For these two elements of the United States national security state, the Cold War has never ended insofar as Cuba was concerned. They are as committed to ousting the Cuban communist regime today and replacing it with a brutal pro-United States dictatorship as they were throughout the Cold War.

Another reason for targeting Cubans with impoverishment and death is political. There are Cuban-Americans living in Florida who salivate over the possibility of regime change in Cuba at the hands of the United States government. Those are the ones Donald Trump is targeting for votes by targeting people in Cuba with more impoverishment and death.

Finally, it is worth pointing out that Donald Trumps dictatorial edict to cancel private charter flights to Cuba is no different from the type of dictatorial control that the Cuban communist regime exercises over the Cuban people.

United States of Americans, like everyone else, have the natural, God-given rights to travel wherever they want and spend their money any way they want.

Under what moral authority does Donald Trump suspend the principles of the Declaration of Independence - the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for any reason whatsoever, and especially to just be reelected to office?

What we need in this country is hundreds of thousands of Americans protesting the destruction of their own rights and freedoms at the hands of their own government.

We need the restoration of the natural, God-given rights of freedom of trade and freedom of travel. A good place to begin would be protests and demonstrations calling for the lifting of the brutal, corrupt, deadly, destructive, and immoral United States embargo on Cuba.

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