The young flee Israel because it is a ‘failure’ and xenophobic theocracy

ch) artistic creativity is free as long as its content is not contrary to the Revolution. Forms of
expression of art are free;

http://www.constitutionnet.org/files/Cuba Constitution.pdf

there's part

 

And we continue:

ARTICLE 53
Citizens have freedom of speech and of the press in
keeping with the objectives of socialist
society. Material conditions for the exercise of th
at right are provided by the fact that the
press, radio, television, movies and other organs o
f the mass media are State or social
property and can never be private property. This as
sures their use at the exclusive service of
the working people and in the interest of society.

 

This one is very important due to the one part nature of the state:

CHAPTER X
SUPREME ORGANS OF PEOPLE’S POWER
ARTICLE 69
The National Assembly of People’s Power is the supr
eme organ of State power and represents
and expresses the sovereign will of all the working
people.
ARTICLE 70
The National Assembly of People’s Power is the only
organ in the Republic invested with
constituent and legislative authority.
ARTICLE 71
The National Assembly of the People’s Power is comp
rised of deputies elected through a free,
direct, and secret ballot by the voters, in the pro
portion and according to the procedure that
the law establishes.
ARTICLE 72
The National Assembly of People’s Power is elected
for a period of five years.
This period can only be extended by virtue of a resolution of the Assembly itself in the event
of war or in the case of other exceptional circumstances that may impede the normal holding
of elections and while such circumstances exist.
ARTICLE 73
The National Assembly of People’s Power, upon convening for a new legislature, elects from
among its deputies its President, Vice President, and Secretary. The law regulates the manner
and procedure whereby the Assembly convenes and hol
ds that election.

Only under a Stalinistic throwback could one conceivably see a hereditary dictatorship; such as, as the one in Cuba and the one in North Korea but hey you have yourself a nice doctor shopping little holiday on their beautiful beaches. Cuba should be the 51st state by now FYI.

 

Not only should Cuba have free elections but they should be allowed to have a national referendum for joining the union. As it stands all Cubans are citizens of our republic the 2nd they step foot on our shores.

 

That´s all very interesting. Cuba, though, must be viewed within a set of specific socioeconomic and political contexts sadly absent by those whose motivations lie elsewhere.

 

Socio-economic conditions brought about by a backwards economic policy under a totalitarian regime. Your assertion that the U.S. boycott is to blame for the stalinistic throwback that is Cuba is simple laughable. But heh tell us again how you love spending your holidays in a one party totalitarian state. We're all ears. Paradise right? Utopia?

 

The boycott is merely one component amongst many.

 

Would a major component be totalitarianism, dictatorship, the economy as a piggy bank for Castro and his familia? Just what exactly is your major component in this equation sir?

 

Repeated US attempts at subversion is a key factor. Cuba is a third world nation that has repèatedly fought off the yoke of US imperialism. In that context it remains a beacon of hope for millions who look for an alternative to the prevailing orthodoxy pertaining to the US neoliberal economic consensus. This tiny third world country has fought of numerous US administrations and remains to this day on a war footing with its impèrialist aggressor 90 miles away. Castro understands, rightly, that under such circumstances, certain freedoms have to be curtailed and momentarily suspended. Churchill understood this too in his fight against Hitler fascism. The truth is, Castro is well aware that Cuba is awash with traitors and potential traitors as Churchill was equally aware that Britain had in its midst fascist sympathizers and traitors. Churchill had to suspend democracy for 6 years. For Castro the process in Cuba is necessarily on-going. Cuba has survived against the odds and this pisses the Americans off big time which is why it is deemed necessary for successive US administrations to continue with the kind of propaganda perpetuated by people like you.

 

I am not seeing a answer to the question. Just a self absorb rant.

 

That´s your problem.

 

Of course, more self absorption.

 

Of course it is....LOL.

 

Can you answer the question without ranting?

 

Already have.

 

In that rant? Gibberish self absorb collection of words that come with prejudice leanings.

 

Have you anything worthwhile to add or is it your intention to derail the thread with your trolling?

 

I asked if you could answer the question without all the messy ego. Can you?

 

I´ve answered it already. You don´t like the answer, too bad. Byeeee. Troll somebody else. I´m not interested.

 

I will take that as no.

 

Take it anyway you like. I don´t give a flying f@@k. I am going to have to ignore you from this point on.

 

More self absorption. No worries......

 

Women complaining of the Israeli government, one of them dreaming about living in Berlin, Germany... What an irony... to Berlin as the best place...

Young people migrating from Israel to other countries...

And I know people preparing to travel and live in Israel for good...

I don't think that migration of young people is related to a theocratic government in Israel, but to look for a better horizon, like better way of living in the US, a more complex and different environment, better opportunities for certain careers, etc... because Israel tolerates homosexuals and lesbians in the army... so such is not an issue, Israel productivity is very expanded and moral statutes doesn't affect it at all...

Perhaps is a daily pressure of a sudden war is what is causing young people to migrate, like the air strikes made by Israel to countries neighbors as "preventive" measurements... sooner or later some country will attack back and young people will be called to defend the country... and the first afftected ones are the young people living in Israel.

 

Repeated US attempts to overthrow a totalitarian communist regime created a totalitarian communist regime? Wow just wow.

And by "fought off US imperialism" you of course mean creating a totalitarian regime under a tyrannical dictator who suckled at the tit of Soviet imperialism which occupied and brutalized half of the western world for nearly half a century.

An alternative to what? Not locking up political prisoners? Not murdering gays in forced labor camps headed by Che with signs reading "work will make men of you". just what exactly is this alternative sir?

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/46-years-after-death-che-guevara-still-an-undeserving-idol/

lol perhaps on your planet the US is the aggressor but here on planet reality it was Che who wished for the nuclear holocaust of the United States:

“Of course I knew the missiles were nuclear-armed. That’s precisely why I urged Khrushchev to launch them. And of course Cuba would have been utterly destroyed in the exchange.” -- Fidel Castro

“If the missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.” -- Che Guevara

“My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.” -- Raul Castro

Such victims of oppression!

Such freedoms as basic human rights?

(Washington, DC) - Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a report released today. Rather than dismantle Cuba's repressive machinery, Raúl Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active, the report says.

The 123-page report, "New Castro, Same Cuba," shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code offense of "dangerousness," which allows authorities to imprison individuals before they have committed any crime, on the suspicion that they are likely to commit an offense in the future. This "dangerousness" provision is overtly political, defining as "dangerous" any behavior that contradicts Cuba's socialist norms.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2009/11/18/cuba-ra-l-castro-imprisons-critics-crushes-dissent

Interesting choice of words considering that the only country in the western hemisphere which can properly be labeled fascist is Cuba.

DECENTRALIZATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN CUBA

Nelson Amaro


The CDR officials have the duty to know the activities
of each person in their respective blocks. There is
an individual file kept on each block resident, some
of which reveal the internal dynamics of households.
For this reason Maida Donate-Armada (1996) says
that “perhaps the greatest contribution (of the
CDRs) to the history of world espionage may be to
have raised to the level of counterintelligence the daily
gossip (chismes) and disagreements (bretes) that go
on at the neighborhood level. Citizens must be careful
of their actions and of what they say, as they are
being constantly monitored by the block CDR.

The structure consists of a president, vice-president,
a treasurer, an organizer, an official responsible for
the work force, and another for ideological control.
CDRs all include an important component, referred
to as the CDR Vigilance and Public Order Front
(Vigilancia y Orden Público). After the September
1986 CDR Congress, a special component (front)
was introduced to assist those young people who neither
work nor study. This division of the CDR is referred
to as the Prevention and Education Front.
This front notifies the police department of all pertinent
information regarding young people who are
neither in school nor working.

CDR characteristics probably vary according to population
size, prevalence of common crime or acts
against the state, extremism of the CDR authorities,
educational level, etc. An important variable is the
lack of commitment of the rank and file at the local
level.

Militancy in CDRs is interchangeable with other organizations
such as the FMC, the Communist Party,
or the League of Young Communists. Any militant
of the Party or of the Youth must show that he or she
is a member of the CDRs and/or FMC. These last
two organizations, together with the Party and the
Youth are the most active at the local level. The statutes
of the Cuban Communist Party of Cuba, Chapter
VIII, Article 73, states:

“The Party guides and directs the work of the mass
and social organizations, based on the principle of full
and conscious acceptance of its leadership role and of
the influence its members and aspirants have in the
mass organizations, while recognizing the organic independence
of those organizations.”19


Within each block, there is one other agent who
deals indirectly with the CDRs: this person reports
directly to an officer of the security apparatus of the
Ministry of Interior. Very rarely are the secret duties
of this person known to other block citizens or CDR
officials. In order for a CDR official to be informed
of the duties of this person, there must be a working
relationship on a particular case.

19. As quoted in Ritter (1985, p. 277).
The organization of the CDRs by sectors and blocks
follows the national-regional-province-municipalityzone-
sector-block pyramid structure. The sector controller
holds a full-time job. They patrol on foot
since they do not have other means of transportation.
Their work hours might vary from 9:00 a.m. to as
late as 11:00 p.m. Most of them do not even live in
the sectors they patrol. The president of the CDR
provides all pertinent information to the sector controller.
Frequently, however, the sector controller
does not trust the CDR president and usually verifies
this information with VOP Front Officials.

If enough evidence of wrongdoing is found regarding
a particular citizen, the sector controller meets with
that individual. Three warnings are given to each citizen,
with the first two given in written form. After
one warning, the citizen’s file is classified as category
A; after two warnings, as B. The third warning results
in the arrest of the citizen and classification of his or
her file as category C.

There are national, provincial, municipal, and zone
meetings for all CDR presidents, who then pass on
the information to their block officials and citizens.
The VOP Front consists of people who have shown
extreme loyalty to the revolution, and who are willing
to go to great means to discover wrongdoing.
The background of the Front officials varies from retirees
to people who have served in international missions.
The ideological control person usually has a
college degree.

As is depicted in Figure 1, the Ministry of Interior
and the CDRs have parallel structures. Security bodies
(intelligence and counterintelligence) and police
back-stop this mass organization. Designation of officials
for different posts within CDRs, especially for
being in charge of “vigilance,” are subject to consultation
with the MININT officer in charge.

This network in turn is linked to the chiefs of “defense
zones” and territorial militia, which are the
lower layer of the so-called “Republic of Cuba’s
Unique System of Exploration” and the mobilization
chain for any war action. “Defense zones” are in
charge of evacuating the civil population and destroying
cities and towns if the socialist system is in
danger. These activities are connected to the Ministry
of Armed Forces.

There are “Voluntary Brigades of Activists” that are
mobilized according to instructions of the state security
apparatus. The Brigades are sometimes called
into action by the police. They are the direct antecedent
of the so-called “Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida”
(Quick Response Brigades) that hold “repudiation
meetings” in front of the homes of undesirable
neighbors, sometimes when it is known that they
plan to leave the island. The Brigades are a sort of
para-military organization backed by the Cuban authorities
established for the purpose of harassing and
fighting—physically sometimes, with sticks, bricks,
and hammers—dissident neighbors and families.

The notion of civil society is alien to the policies that
the Cuban leadership is pursuing at present. The theories
of “transmission belts” and an “enlightened
vanguard” suit more closely regime’s goals and
modus operandi. The essence of civil society lies in
the possibility that social groups could be autonomous,
particularly from military and government tutelage
and control. This is impossible in today’s Cuban
society. The leadership has a horizontal
circulation system that allows the same faces and
names to transfer from government to mass organizations
to military positions. This revolving system has
been operating for 36 years.

The Party, the State and mass organizations are intertwined.
To claim that Cuban mass organizations represent
civil society is to deny that the latter has any
right to exist as an independent force. This is the
kind of participation Nazi and fascist regimes encourage,
together with the “personality cult” of the
leader. The revolutionary leadership and the leader
himself have designed a totalitarian society; changes
to the control mechanisms and reforms are attempts
to strengthen this grip.


http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba6/36amaro.fm.pdf

So you support the arrest of potential criminals?

The suspension of democracy is codified under the Cuban Constitution.

People like me and Human Rights Watch apparently.

 

In your case quantity doesn´t necessarily mean quality.