Lest we forget...Cuba

[Supercharts]

And you are upset 'cause you can't burn a cross but it's OK to burn the flag?

"By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer
HAVANA - The first dissidents tried in a massive crackdown on Cuba's opposition will spend between 15 and 25 years in prison after being convicted of collaborating with American diplomats to undermine the socialist state, family members said Monday.

Prosecutors originally sought life sentences for at least a dozen of the 80 defendants, but no such sentences were among those announced Monday.

Opposition political party leader Hector Palacios, among those originally recommended for a life sentence, received a 25-year sentence, said his wife, Gisela Delgado. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=535&e=9&cid=535&u=/ap/20030407/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_crackdown

[HarryKeogh]

is fidel castro ever gonna die? i think well see him in the guiness book of world records in 40 years as the oldest living man, smoking a damn cigar and george bush III in office in DC.

[Q-Source]

Originally posted by Supercharts
And you are upset 'cause you can't burn a cross but it's OK to burn the flag?

"By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer
HAVANA - The first dissidents tried in a massive crackdown on Cuba's opposition will spend between 15 and 25 years in prison after being convicted of collaborating with American diplomats to undermine the socialist state, family members said Monday.

Prosecutors originally sought life sentences for at least a dozen of the 80 defendants, but no such sentences were among those announced Monday.

Opposition political party leader Hector Palacios, among those originally recommended for a life sentence, received a 25-year sentence, said his wife, Gisela Delgado. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=535&e=9&cid=535&u=/ap/20030407/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_crackdown

What else would you expect?

Conspiracy against a Country is a federal crime that it is subject to punishment (even in your own country).

Those people were doing conspiracy against the Cuban government with a US diplomat.

[Supercharts]

"Those arrested in last month's crackdown include more than two dozen journalists, leaders of independent labor unions and opposition political parties, and pro-democracy activists involved in a reform effort known as the Varela Project. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=535&e=7&cid=535&u=/ap/20030407/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_crackdown

[Rusty_the_boy_robot]

How dare those people conspire or protest against their own government!

And to think, there are people over here in the AMERICA who wants to make sure to keep the right to burn the flag in protest against the government!