Long journey: Nantucket woman awaits hearing on 1999 Cuba trip

December 27, 2003
Long journey
Nantucket woman awaits hearing on 1999 Cuba trip

By JACK COLEMAN
STAFF WRITER
Her only visit to Cuba in December 1999 was, as Nantucket resident Jennifer Wolfe Kennelly described it, "a fabulous trip."

Accompanied by a friend from California, Wolfe Kennelly spent 10 days on the Caribbean island, whose inhabitants she found to be "beautiful, nice people" with an exuberance for music and dancing.

But two months after returning home, the 42-year-old nurse received a letter from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department.

The federal government had "reasonable cause to believe," the letter stated, that Wolfe Kennelly violated restrictions against U.S. citizens visiting Cuba and engaged in "travel-related transactions, including obtaining a visa, and paying for lodging, food, souvenirs and entertainment."

The possible penalty? A $100,000 fine.
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http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/longjourney27.htm

stemming from a ridiculous policy. It just reminds everyone how important Florida presidential politics is perceived to be - talk about a tail wagging a dog!

Despite the fact that the majority of Americans as well as the majority of their representatives in the House and Congress want the embargo on Cuba and the travel sanctions on Americans to end, a majority of our Dem presidential candidates support the Bush Doctrine on Cuba (keeping the sanctions). I don't see many dem party members pushing their candidates to speak out and represent the majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans on this issue though.

Only one Dem prez candidate calls for an end to this policy.

Its not just repugs who pander to the minority of Cuban "exiles" in S Fla, but our Dems too.


The Majority of Americans poll
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=770
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Poll: Cuban-Americans focus is local
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/6269237.htm
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Its too bad the leadership panders to the extremist minority on this issue, instead of listening to the majority of Americans & Cuban-Americans.

http://www.lawg.org/pages/new%20pages/Misc/prez-candidates1.htm

Sadly, only ONE candidate for US president openly states that he would end this unjust and insane policy against Cuba AND Americans.

That candidate is Dennis Kucinich.

-The Democratic Presidential Candidates on Cuba-
http://www.lawg.org/pages/new%20pages/Misc/prez-candidates1.htm 

otherwise they just might notice that it was the Dems who codified American's policy of regime change in Cuba into US law despite the will of the majority to this day.

Wouldn't want Dem voters to know the truth before an election now would we!

Well.. if DU is any gauge on this issue, the embargo will stay on Cuba (and possibly a US invasion er.. 'liberation' next) and a continuation of the abrogation of our travel right no matter who wins (except DK) and it won't even cause a blip.

Will? Maybe. But no will power.

Dems choose to cling to the lies and bullshit to defend their position as many a member of DU has illustrated time and time again despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary at their fingertips.

There’s no excuse whatsoever for so many DUers ignorance of the Dem candidates support for the Bush Doctrine on Cuba. The hypocrisy reeks to say the least.

If Bush tries something stupid in the new year the complicit Dems are going to get caught with their pants down looking like idiots on the world stage yet again. Just watch!

...is spending his Christmas vacation in Cuba. He's paying for lodging, food, souvenirs and entertainment, but there'll be no penalty assessed upon his return. He's Cuban-American. The rules are different for him. :eyes:

It's unpardonable to PROHIBIT ordinary Americans' travel to Cuba, which has NEVER been at war with the U.S., and actually has been on the receiving end of 44 years of terrorism, both economic, and in the traditional sense.

It astounds some of us that the same people who claim they had to flee from Cuba turn around and rush back for vacations, visits, etc., while their Representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart, his brother, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Robert Menendez work 24/7 to make sure ordinary Americans are LOCKED OUT!

BOOOOOOOO!

to this day and tolerates being travel banned and treated like a second class citizen for a second.

No wonder the Bushisats reckoned it would be easy to further restrict apathetic Americans' rights and freedoms since they're too stupid to even fight for what hundreds of thousands of "exiles" freely do each year for several years now.

The 2004 Democratic candidates on Cuba =
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

Its good that your B-I-L spent some dollars there. Cuba needs all they can get for their full and complete social systems. Good for him.

Its just too bad that the rest of us Americans can't do the same thing.


Sadly, only ONE candidate for
US president openly states that he
would end this unjust and insane
policy against Cuba AND Americans.

That candidate is Dennis Kucinich.

-The Democratic Presidential Candidates on Cuba-
http://www.lawg.org/pages/new%20pages/Misc/prez-candidates1.htm

While Congress pleads for public comment to garner a veto proof bipartisan majority vote, the Dems pretend they haven't a clue what's going on and the presidential contenders side with the Miami mafia, even Scotland's Sunday Herald realizes:

Further predictions for 2004 include a possible change of regime in Cuba, a second victory for George Bush’s Republican Party in the US elections and British scientists making a “startling medical breakthrough”.

http://www.sundayherald.com/38978

The lesson will not have been lost, either, on the leaders of the other countries who are opposing US interests – Iran, Syria, Sudan, Cuba and North Korea – and who are suspected of developing nuclear weapons. Either they can continue their defiance or they can come out of the cold and accept Bush’s view of the world. One path would lead to isolation, the other to engagement with the world community. Bush calls this benevolent hegemony, and it guides most of his foreign policy.

http://www.sundayherald.com/38896

With the silent complicity of happily travel banned Dems evidently. Watch!