The Cuban Embargo Has Destroyed the Liberty of Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2020-10-08 at 13:39:40 )

The Cuban Embargo Has Destroyed the Liberty of Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger!

There is no doubt that the 60-year-old United States embargo against Cuba inflicts horrific economic suffering on the Cuban people. That is its purpose - to squeeze the Cuban people through suffering and even starvation into ousting their communist regime and replacing it with a regime that will be subservient to the United States State Department, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Not surprisingly, the embargo has failed to achieve its end. That is because most Cubans detest the idea of having the United States government wield control over them, justifiably so. Moreover, it is extremely difficult to revolt against a well-entrenched regime, especially one that has imposed strict gun control on its citizens.

But a question naturally arises: Why the extreme passivity among the United States American people to the destruction of their rights and liberty, which comes with the United States governments embargo against Cuba?

After all, the infliction of economic suffering and even death on Cubans is not a cost-free endeavor, at least not insofar as United States of American citizens are concerned. The price paid by Americans has been their liberty as well as their economic well-being.

Travel is a fundamental, God-given right, one that precedes the existence of government. People have the right to travel anywhere they want without the interference or control of their own government.

Economic liberty is also a fundamental, God-given right. People have the right to spend their money any way they want without the interference of control of their own government.

It is indisputable that both of these rights have been destroyed by the United States governments embargo on Cuba. If an American citizen travels to Cuba and spends money there in some unapproved way, he is subject to criminal prosecution, conviction, incarceration, and fine by his own government upon his return to the United States.

From the very beginning of the embargo, United States officials said that United States "national security" was threatened by Cubas socialist system. Socialism, of course, is an economic system in which the government controls the economic activity of the citizenry.

Thus, note the irony: In order to oppose socialism, United States officials control the travel and spending of United States of American citizens and punish them if they fail to follow the orders and directives associated with their embargo.

What we need in this country is a freedom revival, one in which the United States of American people rediscover what freedom really means and rise up and demand the restoration of their freedom.

A great place to start would be an unconditional, non-negotiable demand to lift the cruel and destructive embargo on the Cuban people, which, at the same time, would go a long way toward restoring freedom of travel and freedom of trade to the United States of American people.

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