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| tribu |
I posted this in the Sports section, but I thought this section might apprecitae it as well:
In case no one noticed, there was a man at the Cuba/Netherlands match behind home plate holding a sign that said: "Down with Castro". Of course the game was broadcast in Cuba, a place where criticizing the dictator is not wise. Here is an interesting story about the event and Cuban officials attempt to stop him...while in Puerto Rico
Sports Illustrated Article here
The Cuban officials tried to stop the man and were taken and lectured on free speech. Puerto Rican police officers also refused to honor a WBC comittee ban on political signs. I pulled all this from the article. Nice to see people trying to repress free speech humiliated in my opinion. |
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| Lepanto |
| haha Castro thinks he actually has a say in this world...i don't remmember who it was here who said that there are alot of little runts like him behind the reigns of many different countries who try to make them and their unimportant country seem all big and mighty but he was right :p |
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| sensorium |
I don't understand what's the deal with political statements in stadiums. This is a world cup and respect should be given to the participating countries. Imagine a person having a sign that said "Down with Bush." What's the use in that? We sure are going down with Bush but we don't need a person reminding us that.
People go to stadiums to watch the game. The signs serve the purpose of rooting for a team/person/country and not to make a political statement. Whatever happened to just enjoying the game, although I have yet to see what's enjoyable about it. My apologies if you are a fan.
On the other hand, why would people get upset because of a sign? That's just silly. And what's this thing about free speech? As if people really took that under consideration. Remember Sheehan at the State of the Union address? Wait, that case doesn't even deserve to be brought up anymore. Free speech is respected, sometimes. |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by sensorium
I don't understand what's the deal with political statements in stadiums. This is a world cup and respect should be given to the participating countries. Imagine a person having a sign that said "Down with Bush." What's the use in that? We sure are going down with Bush but we don't need a person reminding us that.
People go to stadiums to watch the game. The signs serve the purpose of rooting for a team/person/country and not to make a political statement. Whatever happened to just enjoying the game, although I have yet to see what's enjoyable about it. My apologies if you are a fan.
On the other hand, why would people get upset because of a sign? That's just silly. And what's this thing about free speech? As if people really took that under consideration. Remember Sheehan at the State of the Union address? Wait, that case doesn't even deserve to be brought up anymore. Free speech is respected, sometimes. |
In cuba, I believe speaking out against the dictator is more or less against the law. The Cuban officials at the game went to make sure the man's sign was removed so it wouldn't appear on Cuban television. The officials were stopped by Puerto Rican police and lectured about free speech. As far as cuban television, the sing only appeared for a few seconds and they were careful not to include it as much as possible.
Free speech doesn't apply everywhere, but in the end it's about the people put in charge to enforce it. The WBC banned political signs from games, but the Puerto Rican police are the ones who ultimately must enforce it, and they refuse to because of their freedom of speechh laws. If the people in charge at the state of the union had chosen to repsect Sheehan's right to free speech over the rules of the Congress then she would have stayed. |
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| Vlad |
| Goooooooooooooo Cuba in WBC!!! |
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