Posted: Sep 01, 2010 9:41 am
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:I didn't think you'd make the effort to go find the meaning of the term "Crime against humanity," so here, I did it for you:
From: http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C/CrimesAgainstHumanity.aspx
Crimes Against Humanity: An international criminal justice offence; the perpetration of [u]acts of war[/i] upon a civilian, non-soldier population --
A term used by, within and as so defined by the International Criminal Court treaty and including any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
•Murder;
•Extermination;
•Enslavement;
•Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
•Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
•Torture;
•Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
•Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, (...) or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law (...)
•Enforced disappearance of persons;
•The crime of apartheid;
•Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
Nothing that happened in Cuba in the 1960's satisfies these criteria, so your cavalier and undiciplined use of language is duly noted. Not that it's anything new, mind you.
Are you fucking kidding me? What you just posted proves beyond any doubt that I am right. The imprisonment of homosexuals for being homosexual satisfies AT LEAST two of the criteria above, if not more: Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law and Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, (...) or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law.
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:Likewise, I become ill at your constant badgering of Cuba's revolution. You aren't as concerned about the well being of Cubans as you are just flat pissed off that a people's revolution has succeeded and has done so against all odds. That's your angst. It shines like a supernova in the subtext of all you write about Cuba.
Pure unadulterated bullshit. While I would undoubtedly agree that it takes a peculiar psychosis to view the disaster of the Castro regime as a success, this isn't about that. Shame on you for reducing the persecution of homosexuals to a footnote in your ideological battle.
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:I have been to Cuba, several times as a matter of fact. I've spent a good deal of time there, gotten to know its people and the conditions in which they live. You haven't ... because in your land of the free you are not free to do so, ha, ha, ha. The joke's on you, buster.
I'm British. Your powers of observation are as strong as ever, I see.
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:Hence, your claims of caring about the well being of Cuban homosexuals strikes me as being disingenuous at best, downright dishonest at worst. If you don't care about the well being of your own fellow citizens how can we believe that you care about Cubans? I don't think we can, and i don't, not for a minute.
An absolute disgrace of a post. I can see there is literally nothing you won't justify in the name of defending Cuba.