Would you defect to cuba if you were able to do so?

The Straight Story

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Sun Nov-06-05 11:52 PM
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Would you defect to cuba if you were able to do so?

I noticed a thread earlier about some cubans defecting to canada. If you could defect from your country to cuba, would you? If not why not and if so why?

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Bluebear

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Sun Nov-06-05 11:54 PM
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1. I would not. I am populist, not communist n/t

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RagingInMiami

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Sun Nov-06-05 11:55 PM
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2. Hell no

I would love to go and visit, and take photos, and experience the culture. But I would want to be able to return to the U.S. when I felt like it.

Cuba is not exactly paradise. There's a reason why the Cubans keep defecting to this country.

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Syncronaut Seven

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Sun Nov-06-05 11:56 PM
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3. Hurricanes, if it wasn't for that I'd go in a heartbeat.

It would be great to be able to finish school.

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Fridays Child

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:00 AM
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4. Do I get oceanfront property?

Hmm... :bounce:

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disgruntled_goat

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:00 AM
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5. how are we supposed to make an informed guess?

Cuba may as well be Tolkien's "The Undying Lands" for all the accurate, open, info our media fails to deliver.

We're not defectors. our government is defective.

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mestup

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:01 AM
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6. Oh Cannibus...

Probably not Cuba, but maybe Canada.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=279

January 1, 2005
In the twenty-four hours following George W. Bush's victory in the American presidential election on November 2, 2004, the Canadian government's Department of Citizenship and Immigration website received 115,016 "hits," six times the average daily number, and double the previous record.

There followed a flurry of media speculation over the prospect of disgruntled American voters leaving their country to settle in Canada or other destinations, including Spain, Mexico, or New Zealand.

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Syncronaut Seven

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:06 AM
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7. Oh Cannibus, Thats like marihuana right?

;-)

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mestup

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:08 AM
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8. LOL! you mean ,"eh" right?

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RB TexLa

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:14 AM
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9. No, wouldn't have defected to the USSR either

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 12:17 AM by RGBolen

What do you mean if "you were able to?" You go to the Cuban embassy or consulante, if you are in America you go to one in Mexico or Canada, and tell them you want to defect and why.

edited to add message
and then for spelling

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Syncronaut Seven

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:37 AM
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10. Truth is, Castro isn't too keen on Americans in Cuba.

Likes the dollars but doesn't like Americans without family or good reasons to be there.

American tourists are suspect and they'll grill you pretty good going in, then often assign you a minder. As of last year anyway.

Offering asylum to Americans? New one on me.

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roody

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:45 AM
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11. Glad to be bilingual

How about Venezuela?

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roody

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:47 AM
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12. End the embargo.

Disobey the embargo.

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Syncronaut Seven

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:00 AM
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14. GASP!!! That's illegal isn't it?

Oh yea, only if your bring in medical supplies.

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JVS

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:49 AM
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13. No, but maybe if I could defect to East Germany I'd have to consider it.

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Celeborn Skywalker

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:01 AM
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15. No.

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insanity

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:02 AM
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16. hell no

I can't leave my country, I love it too much. I don't love the direction America is heading, but I will not jump ship.

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