Fox is reporting that the administration is talking with Cuba about opening a diplomatic embassy in Havana, which is a violation of Foreign Assistance Act as amended in August of 1961. Another effort by Obama to thwart the Constitution and its limitations on his powers.
Cuba's human rights record is abysmal, and our recognition of them utterly destroys the efforts of the last 50 years for them to accountability. Not that the effort was working all that well, but now there is no leverage at all.
Massively better, in that we made the effort to correct our attitude so the mistakes of the past would not be repeated. The same cannot be said for Castro's Cuba.
The shame is that the few truly heinous acts that have occurred in American history are viewed by those who would revise the narrative falsely so as to make them appear the norm, rather than the exception.
That is a false narrative, rather than reality. If nations or people believe atrocities and heinous acts to have been the norm rather than the exception, they, like so many of our own people, have bought the lie rather than investigating for themselves to discover the truth. The wide divergences from that truth that emphasize the aforementioned isolated incidents as being oft-repeated is a creation of those who would undermine the U.S.'s heritage, character, and very existence, because they hate what she has stood for these past 238 years.
Frankly I don't care what the Europeans think about Texas justice. The fact is, the capital punishment process is replete with safeguards, reviews, judicial overwatch, and countless appeals that assure that every aspect of the case is examined with a fine-toothed comb to the nth degree. European outrage makes no difference to me whatsoever, nor does it to Texans.
Really? When did that happen? Because Texas and Missouri -- my home state -- both have carried out the death penalty 10 times this year, the most by any state in four years. That's 20 of the 35 men and women executed across the U.S. this year. Texas executed four black men, four Latinos, one white man and one white woman. Missouri executed five blacks and five whites. So it seems your "European outrage" didn't do much but make you feel better. Justice was done.
To you, perhaps. On the other hand, of the 35 men and women executed this year, they averaged 17 years, four months on death row from sentencing to execution. We do take the death penalty seriously in this country. We make every effort to assure that justice is served, and that means making certain the wheels of justice turn excruciatingly slowly, which is more than can be said for the death process for the victims of these murderers.
To you, perhaps. On the other hand, of the 35 men and women executed this year, they averaged 17 years, four months on death row from sentencing to execution. We do take the death penalty seriously in this country. We make every effort to assure that justice is served, and that means making certain the wheels of justice turn excruciatingly slowly, which is more than can be said for the death process for the victims of these murderers. [/QUOTE]
And until yesterday, they were all on the same list of nations that we consider in violation of basic human rights as Cuba, but somehow Cuba now has a magic "get off the list" card, not to mention they have done nothing to correct their behavior and the government will now be able to solidify it's totalitarian position and establish a line of succession that assures that totalitarian regime will continue, thanks to the opening of the gates the "Yanqui tourista dollar" that will fund all of that for them.
You stated that the EU complaints resulted in "the continuous execution of Black men stopped and basically came to a complete halt ... " and I rightly pointed out that did not happen. So I reject your impression regarding my reading comprehension skills, but thanks for your concern.
