August 25, 2006
Civil Disobedience
True to form and in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet sends this message from his prison cell in Havana (courtesy of El Nuevo Herald and translated by yours truly).
The people of Cuba have been suffering the contempt of a totalitarian tyranny, of Communism, for more than four decades. Due to this cruel treatment where the honor of the people is violated, many of us are indignant and rising up in prayer and fasting to plead to the God of the Bible, and demanding from our government the signatures from the international human rights pacts (the international pact of civil and political rights as well as the one regarding economic, social and cultural rights) signed and sealed by the international community at the United Nations.As we have so well expressed, these demands are directed to the government of Cuba, regardless of who's in charge, because as they said in Boston: "Tyranny is tyranny, let it come from whom it may".
For that reason we must continue our journey of prayer and fasting until obtaining the requested signature, and until the fulfillment and respect of human rights for all Cubans is put immediately into practice.
We must expedite the achievement of these basic rights through civil disobedience, and by putting into practice all methods to obtain our humanitarian aim.
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will" (Frederick Douglass).
We have the right to be free and to use our individual sovereignty as a people, and "only freedom brings with it peace and wealth" (Jose MartĂ).
Here, in this dark gate where I am forced to live, I will continue to resist until obtaining the freedom of my people.
Dr. Oscar ElĂas Biscet
President, Lawton Foundation for Human Rights
Combinado del Este Prison
La Habana, Cuba
Posted by Robert M at August 25, 2006 11:15 PM
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Could this man and/or someone like him be the next Jose Marti?
Posted by: Patricio Texidor ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 26, 2006 03:49 AM
Patricio,Thats is what I thought when I read his letter. I think he is our new Marti.
Val, how about a Free Biscet shirt? Maybe the money can be sent to adopt a dissident or some other organization.
Posted by: Eric at August 26, 2006 12:11 PM
He is the Cuban version of Dr. Martin Luther King J.r.
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at August 26, 2006 03:12 PM
My biscet site is still up - however, server problems - the company is trying to fix it
www.biscet.org
I have had this site since 1999 or 2000
its due for an update
Posted by: mandingo at August 26, 2006 04:52 PM
Updated on the BISCET website:
http://www.free-biscet.org/
http://www.free-biscet.org/biscetarticles/2006/civil_disobedience.htm
Posted by: mandingo at August 26, 2006 05:38 PM
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