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Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist'
yuna49 writes "Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports today about the plight of a Spanish tour operator whose domain names have been embargoed by his domain name registrar (eNom). They pulled his domains after they discovered the tour operator's name on a US Treasury blacklist. It turns out he packages tours to Cuba largely for European tourists who can legally travel there, unlike Americans. The article cites 'a press release issued in December 2004, almost three years before eNom acted. It said Mr. Marshall's company had helped Americans evade restrictions on travel to Cuba and was "a generator of resources that the Cuban regime uses to oppress its people." It added that American companies must not only stop doing business with the company but also freeze its assets, meaning that eNom did exactly what it was legally required to do.' The only part of the operator's business in the United States is his domain name registration; all other aspects of his business lie outside the United States."
They're not "terrorists" anymore if they're the legitimately chosen democratic government of a body of people. They're a government that we don't happen to like very much, similar to North Korea or Iran.
Now instead of childishly insisting that they're Terrorists and therefore not worth acknowledging, it might be smart to admit their legitimacy in the eyes of their own people and find some way to coexist without killing each other. Of course, that would make you look weak to the ignorant rednecks you gin up for your elections, so can't have that.
"Honey, it's not working out; I think we should make our relationship open-source."
Yeah but saying Bush and Right-Wingers are fascists is a lot easier to do than check facts and find the origin of the embargo was done by Liberal Democrats.
Just ignore all of the Liberal Fascism and blame the Neocons.
Please raise those "Impeach Bush" signs high, flood all of the Digg, Reddit, DailyKOS, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, and any other social networking or discussion board site you can.
Just tell us all about how the Conservative Fascists are manipulating us with fear of Radical Islamic Terrorists, and please do ignore the fact that Liberal Fascists are manipulating us with fear that the Conservatives are taking away our freedom, fear of global warming to force us to give Liberals our money via carbon credits, fear of peak oil and high gas prices, fear of the RIAA and MPAA suing us for using BitTorrent, fear of our employers firing us for reading Slashdot, fear that Police can read text messages on some stoner's cell phone after pulling him over for speeding and see he contacted a drug dealer, fear that "The New World Order" controls everything so we have to vote in Liberals to keep the NWO out (and hope we don't notice that Liberal Politicians are part of a NWO if it exists in the first place), fear that "Big Brother" is watching us over the Internet and listening to our phone calls.
When you compare Conservative Fascists to Liberal Fascists, you'll find that Liberal Fascists use fear more often to manipulate and control most of us than the Conservative Fascists do. You'd have to ignore that FDR put Japanese-Americans into concentration camps and arrested anyone who was against WWII and put them in jail without a warrant or habeas corpus, you'll have to ignore that Harry S. Truman dropped nukes on Japan and started a war in Korea, you'll have to ignore the LBJ started the Vietnam war and helped bring about the embargo with Cuba in the first place, you'll have to ignore that Jimmy Carter supported Israel and helped out the Shah of Iran to get cancer treatment and it lead to a big Islamic Uprising in the Middle-East that lead to Radical Islamic Terrorism and 9/11, you'll have to ignore that Bill Clinton had military actions against Iraq and Afghanistan and was the first one to say Iraq had WMDs and ties to Bin Laden and tried to get Bin Laden since 1993 when OBL had his men do a failed truck bomb on the WTC in 1993. You can even ignore that Bill Clinton and Al Gore rejected the Koyoto treaty and were in favor of the foreign trade agreements with India, China, Mexico, etc that cost the USA a lot of jobs, and Hillary Clinton supported it and also worked for Wal-Mart and told them to offshore the manufacturing to Asia and when Wal-mart employees vote to unionize just close down the Wal-mart store and fire all the employees and open up a new store somewhere else in town.
I mean yeah, if you ignore the history of Liberal Fascism, you could say that Conservative Fascism is the worst form of fascism, but then isn't any form of fascism supposed to be bad?
Also in the former ex-Communist states, the word progressive and progress stood for Communism and the KGB, Stalin, Mao, and other Communist leaders told everyone they stood for progress. So did Hitler and Mussolini also claim to be progressives and stood for progress. So if a person calls themselves a progressive, that is a bad thing.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
So, in other words, the only difference between United States and countries like - say China, Iran and North Korea - is that the technology used to censor the Internet in United States is significantly weaker and easier to bypass.
It's pathetic! I fart in your general direction.
Don't forget Pakistan: in return for actually selling nuclear technologies worldwide, we've given themm our eternal friendship by letting them protect foreign combatatants and money and letting them sneak into Iraq to continue the combat there.
Yes, it's really effective to embargo the countries like Iraq and Cuba that don't have (or no longer have, and have never successfully produced) nuclear weapons, and open our arms to the ones that actually deal in them.