Re: Speaking of Cuba's electoral system, Raul noted that US democracy pits two identical parties against one another, and joked that that achoice between a Republican and Democrat is like choosing between hinself and his brother Fidel.

On 27 déc, 16:48, f...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 08:58,  krp wrote:







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What Raul didn't say:

http://www.cubaverdad.net/elections_in_cuba.htm

You're repeating yourself by quoting the propaganda web site,
again that proves nothing.

Just read up Freddy.
Links to the Cuban law and even quotes from Cuban ministers.

Cherry picked and taken out of context.

Nope.
The Cuban electoral law is fully quoted and the quotes are neatly
referenced

       Neatly cherry picked, yes.  Thanks for the neatness, but
       neatly
told lies are of no use to honest people.

When you have a field f 2 to 8 candidates you have to vote to
determine which one it
will be.

all "2 to 8" "cherry puicked" and pre-selected.

       By the people.  It's called democracy.  Other nations should
       try
it,...
and the sooner the better.

    ((Other nations HAVE tried it Freddy. The USSR, Cambodia, North
    Korea
and NAZI GERMANY to name a few))

        Nazi Germany was fascist,

and CAstro's Cuba is "red fascist".
Same attitude.

same as the U.S. today and that is the
opposite of communism.  The USSR was sort of into state capitalism more
than communism,

as is Cuba.
Cuba is a stalinist inspired dictatorship set up with the help of the
Stasi and other secret services from the former totalitarian communist
states.
It has a state capitalist system with state ownership of the means of
production versus communal or private ownership.
Cuba isn't one of the anarchist cooperatives in Spain during the civil
war. They had communal ownership and tolerance towards other opinions.
That is why the Stalinist communists crushed them ensuring thereby
that Franco would win the civil war.


Sorry WRONG... Picked by the CDR under orders from Havana and
usually nowhere near 8. In 90% of elections Cubans get ONE to pick
from - OR ELSE. Sometimes 2, and the winner is predetermined, # 2
gets a different plumb as consolation. Usually a management level
job.

       The law says that they must have at least two and not more
       than
eight.  There is never one.

    Sadly for you there frequently is just ONE. Do you know what the
    CDR is
Freddy?

        Well it can't be just one.  It's against Cuban law.

It should be anyone that wants that can stand for free and fair
elections and face a secret ballot.
The "show of hands" to "select" a candidate in Cuba exposes people to
pressure from the likes of the CDR set up to defend the regime and
given extensive powers to sanction people directly or obliged to
report them for sanctioning.


        Yes I know what the CDR is.

Then you know that in any meeting run by this "front line of
repression" can't be democratic.
http://www.cubaverdad.net/cdr.htm

PL
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