Ian Gibson's hypocrisy
Ian Gibson MP on civil liberties in Britain:
Ian Gibson is chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba and one of the Cuban regime's leading apologists.Davis has a good argument. You can call it a stunt or a gimmick, but there is a serious side to this. I'm quite happy to join in.
Human Rights Watch on Cuba:
Cuba remains a Latin American anomaly: an undemocratic government that represses nearly all forms of political dissent.
Ian Gibson on Cuban human rights:
The Foreign Office explains it "cannot have normal relations with Cuba" due to human-rights concerns. Amnesty International claims that 72 prisoners of conscience are detained in Cuban jails, an allegation rejected by the Cuban government, which argues that all were tried and found guilty of being in the pay of an enemy power - the US.
Stephen Pollard on Ian Gibson:
Loathsome hypocrite.
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John F in Aberdeen
June 16th, 2008 1:25pmAnother description for a Hypocrit is a Socialist !!!!
Had it been up to the likes of Tony Benn, Scargil etc the Berlin wall would have reached the Atlantic ocean and we in the UK would have been behind it.
I remember the Prauge Spring 1968,, I,ve hated socilaists ever since and, although I enjoy voting to keep them out of power,, I would just as happily fight them with bullet, bayonet and sword.
patricia
June 16th, 2008 2:28pmNice bit of warmongering from a rampaging Scot. Good old bloodthirsty Scots.
This site is far too good at peddling hate with a poison pen,
but there's not enough actual violence.
Just like when the draft dodgers Bush and Cheney and the hippy scruff Blair advocated bombs and death without ever once having seen the effects of war for themseleves.
I advocate sending Stephen Pollard to Gaza for a few days where he can see some Palestinians actually being shot and bombed. Then he can come on back and give us all the gory details!
PJD
June 16th, 2008 4:36pmPerhaps SP can stay in the only part of Cuba not under the control of the Cuban government to check out the human rights of its orange suited residents.
Ellen
June 17th, 2008 2:07pmFunny how many Cubans risk life ad limb to reach America.
Perhaps patricia and PJD would like to swap places with some hard put upon Cuban for the rest of their lives?
It's one thing to wear a Che Guevara T-shirt, quite another to live in that socialist hellhole.
PJD
June 17th, 2008 11:48pmEllen, Cubans are tempted to the US because if they get there with "dry feet" they can get US citizenship quickly.
Would rather be poor and ill in the US or Cuba Ellen?
To a Cuban (and all Latin Americans) "America" is the whole continent and not just the USA.