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rsmith6621 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:36 AM Original message |
Elian Gonzalez joins Cuba's Young Communists |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Cuba needs that publicity |
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Spouting Horn (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:54 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Gee, how cute! |
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redstorm20 (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Cuba |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. From whom are all the people in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Central America, Mexico |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 08:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. "Hundreds of thousands who tried to escape" - got any links to support that absurdity? |
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raystorm7 (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Why in the hell are we still talking about this kid for?! Leave the kid alone already |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe the capitalist shouldn't have wielded such a big gun near such a little kid. |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Maybe that creepy guy shouldn't have been in a closet with him |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Wasn't aware. |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:12 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Here's a couple of links. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 08:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. The exiles acting as "security" for the drunken uncle's family were more heavily armed than that. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. My sense at the time was that the kid belonged in Cuba. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. maybe the rednecks who manipulated him and wouldn't give him |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
5. You should have heard some of the hyperbolic rhetoric |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
7. His mother, Elisabet Broton, was a communist. Why wouldn't he choose this, too, if he wanted? |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Why not indeed? |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. His father is a party member as well. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Thanks for the info. I wasn't sure if his dad was or not. His life was hideous,as their fetish! |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 08:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Juan Miguel Gonzalez was elected (and reelected) and is serving in the national assembly in Cuba. |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:23 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Not much choice, is there? |
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surf (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. Being forced to join the communist party isnt news worthy |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Only about 15% of Cubans are official communist party members. |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 08:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. And your proof he was "forced" comes from where? |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 07:13 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Nobody in Cuba is "forced" to join the Communist Party |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 09:01 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. They're just forced to submit to it, is all nt |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
12. He's not a child any longer. Hard to believe he's this old. |
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Alameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
20. What a beautiful young man he's become |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. And they left the paradise of cuba why again? |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:17 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. The mother was chasing dick. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Very low quality material, at that:: |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:34 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. And fidel was chasing power over others for their own sake |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 12:30 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. And people risk their lives to get here from Mexico too. |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
26. Elian, you make me proud! You've grown up with principles. n/t |
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Carnea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
31. Look if the Cubans didn't want to be Communist they wouldn't have voted for it..... NT |
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TaffyMoon (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 04:18 AM Response to Original message |
33. Elian looks great |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
35. The picture caption pisses me off |
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