‘Being in the Opposition in Cuba is Well Worth It’: An Interview with José Daniel Ferrer

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Published: 19 May 2021

‘Being in the Opposition in Cuba is Well Worth It’: An Interview with José Daniel Ferrer.

El American had the opportunity, as part of its series of short interviews, to talk with Cuban dissident and human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer. During the spring of 2003, he was unjustly arrested in the so-called Black Spring Of Cuba cause and, consequently, these courageous opponents became known as the Group of 75, after the number of those imprisoned on that occasion.

Among numerous distinctions, Ferrer has received the XIII International Human Rights Award from the Fundación Hispano-Cubana and the Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy.

Ferrer endured political imprisonment for eight long years in which he was subjected to numerous tortures and carried out a number of hunger strikes in Castro’s dungeons. The patriotic tasks have never ceased. Nor have the arbitrary arrests, the torture, the harassment of him and his family by the Cuban dictatorship and hunger strikes as a method of struggle. The Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), an organization Ferrer helped found in 2011, is considered by many to be the largest with an active opposition force within the island and represented in exile in numerous countries. 

 

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Published: 17 May 2021

The Cruel and Unusual Punishment in D.C. Jails that No One Is Talking About.

The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution explicitly forbids the cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners. Conceptually drawing upon the civil rights concerns found in the English Bill of Rights (1689), the language reads in the American case: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Unbeknown to many, as the corporate media has been downplaying this news, within a minuscule distance from the American seat of the federal government are approximately 1,500 detained individuals being subjected to prison standards that arguably equate “cruel and unusual punishments.” To make matters far worse, there is a political and ideological underpinning, guiding this selective course of inhuman prisoner treatment in the District of Columbia’s (D.C.) jail.

Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. local government are the responsible entities for the nefarious conditions that are discriminately being applied to the January 6^th rioters held in cells within their legal jurisdiction. The mentioned over 1,500 inmates are confined to their cells for 22 hours a day. Of those, around 300 are held in solitary confinement. D.C. authorities categorize this smaller group as being under a “medical stay-in-place” policy. The D.C. Department of Corrections guidelines exclusively formulates this isolation extremity treatment for prisoners that fall under the condition of “sexual predators,” individuals engaged in “assaultive behavior,” “likely to be exploited or victimized by others,” and/or possess any “other documented special need.” 

 

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Published: 16 May 2021

Retired Military Leaders Warn Against Marxist Threat in America. A group of high-level military leaders issue an open letter on May 12^th warning that the United States “is in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776.” To leave no room for confusion, the missive makes lucid that the peril stems from a “conflict (that) is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty”. The retired generals and admirals, additionally, pledged to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,” irrelevant of whether they were “domestic” or “foreign”.

The left has been somewhat taken by this, but its reaction has been surreptitious. Left-leaning Foreign Policy magazine published an article calling the letter: “The Military Revolt Against Joe Biden.” Putting aside the false claims alluding to this First Amendment exercise as being a seditious act, the emblematic response of the left is probably concerned with the overarching sentiment of the letter is the influential group’s commitment that states, “Although retired from active service, each of us feels bound by that oath to do what we can, in our capacity today, to protect our nation from the threats to her freedom”. 

 

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Published: 11 May 2021

Justice Clarence Thomas, Common Carriers, and the Regulation of Big Tech.

A recent case before the United States Supreme Court, Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute, did not bring a direct legal victory for the appellee. The case was remanded to a lower court with instructions by the Court to dismiss the case as moot, meaning that it is no longer a live controversy. Justice Clarence Thomas, however, issued an opinion in that case on May 5^th that may point the way for an ultimate solution to remedying Big Tech censorship.

The lawsuit brought about by The Knight First Amendment Institute, a digital defender of free speech, which began in 2017 and involved then-President Trump’s blocking of critical Twitter comments from his account, has brought to surface a most pressing issue that far exceeds the initial factors of the lawsuit. Twitter, Facebook, and Google (Big Tech) are censoring free speech, specifically political, scientific, and religious. The intolerant practice of deplatforming from major social media networks has signaled a challenge to politicians on how best to grapple with this most dangerous threat to a free society. 

 

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