June 10, 2005
Violations Schmiolations
From the UN Declaration of Human Rights
The Cuban government is in direct violation of the following, to name a few:
Article 13
- Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
- Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14
- Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
- This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 17
- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 19
- Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
- Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
- No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
H/T James T.H.
Posted by Val Prieto at June 10, 2005 07:54 AM
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Comments
Waiting for the UN to speak out for the rights of citizens living in totalitarian countries is like...
waiting for snow in Havana! (great book)
Posted by: theautoprophet at June 10, 2005 09:14 AM
Aren't those the same liberties and rights used and abused here by the libzillas who take advantage of them to promote the same regime that suppresses them?
I am still waiting for them to go and ask for political asylum in Cuba or France!
Posted by: CB at June 10, 2005 09:20 AM
But what about the free healthcare and quality education?
Posted by: j.scott at June 10, 2005 09:25 AM
Yeah, one would expect that in a country with such a "high literacy rating," they should at least have the freedom to read the damn document.
Posted by: songuacassal at June 10, 2005 11:29 AM
what does UN stand for?
Utopia Non-Grata???
Posted by: carmen at June 10, 2005 11:41 AM
UN=
Unanimous Nonsense?
Utter Nuisance?
Unlimited Nattering?
Unreal Nincompoops?
Uncaring Nomenklatura?
Unfortunate Narcissists?
Unbelievable Numbskulls?
Usual Ne'er-do-wells?
Unenlightened Nothings?
Undesirable Non-entity?
Yes, I like the last one best of all.
Julio
Posted by: Julio C. Zangroniz at June 10, 2005 12:05 PM
I took part in Polish Model United Nations on February, but.. unfortunately.. delegates representing your country weren`t so good to fight some realible postulates to change something on Cuba.. Reading your blog I understand life there is difficult. However I`d like to go there, to see Cuban life now, before it`ll change. Thanks for all I could read here.. Greetings
Posted by: Nati at June 10, 2005 01:50 PM
"to see Cuban life now, before it`ll change"
You mean before it will change for the better? I guess I should have visited Poland before Solidarity, before it all changed. It used to be so quaint, but now everyone has their freedom and supermarkets and stuff. Damn.
Posted by: j.scott at June 10, 2005 02:05 PM
Isnt that just pathetic?
Posted by: Val Prieto at June 10, 2005 02:46 PM
I mean what a drag it will be. No excrement in the streets, no children being washed in rain puddles. No rice lines. Just won't be the same.
Posted by: Kathleen at June 10, 2005 04:02 PM
Can you imagine? No cagastro speeches? No repression? No gulags? All the quaintness gone forever!
Posted by: CB at June 10, 2005 08:34 PM
Oh and no ration cards. And no coffee mixed with chick peas. And oh no, no more empty stores or filthy beaches. Oh God, oh God, please let me go to Cuba now before all this richness passes away.
Posted by: songuacassal at June 11, 2005 12:29 PM
