Oh, so CUBA is a totalitarian police state!
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Liberty
According to the State Department: Cuba is a totalitarian police state which relies on repressive methods to maintain control. These methods, including intense physical and electronic surveillance of Cubans, are also extended to foreign travelers. Americans visiting Cuba should be aware that any encounter with a Cuban could be subject to surreptitious scrutiny by the Castro regime’s secret police. Also, any interactions with average Cubans, regardless of how well intentioned the American may be, can subject that Cuban to harassment and/or detention, and other forms of repressive actions, by state security elements.
The very next section goes on to name all the repressive restrictions the US has on travel to and from Cuba. This includes the policy that Americans cannot travel from the US to Cuba unless they are doing so for a few specific purposes, only with government permission, and only if they subject themselves to government scrutiny.
Shall I also mention that “free” Americans cannot board a plane without submitting to varying degrees of strip searches by government bureaucrats and producing government-approved forms of identification? That harmless people are harassed and detained by the TSA Gestapo for the heinous crime of having a common name, or a name that matches one of the millions on the the recklessly assembled no-fly-list?
And they have the nerve to call another country a totalitarian police state.
We’re living in some kind of an Orwellian parody.