Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thinks we are Yankee imperialist pigs?
This is what my my Representative said after we normalized relations with Cuba:
“We are saying to the Yankee imperialist pigs, come and own a piece of Cuba, we are for sale, and those who have money, come on over because it’s a fire sale.”
From Anonymity to Identification: Online Communication in a Time of Surveillance | Prof. Michael Froomkin (Audio: MP3) (Video: MP4 / OGV)
I can’t thank my hosts in Heidelberg enough for the warmth of their welcome and their kindness while we visited.
The US approach to Cuba stopped making sense decades ago. Opening exchanges with Poland helped dislodge the Communist regime; the same is likely to happen to Cuba in the future. Maintaining the embargo with Cuba has done more to empower the dictatorial Castro regime than anything else we could do. So I’m all for the resumption of diplomatic relations because it furthers US interests, human rights, and the humanitarian cause of reuniting separated families. It likely will further the cause of freedom in Cuba.
But there’s another reason why this is good: the revanchist faction among Cuban-Americans is overwhelmingly Republican. It’s good politics for a President to reward his friends and ignore — or punish — his enemies. So this is good politics for Obama: serve the US national interest and hit his enemies at the same time.
I hope it’s a sign of what we can hope for in the next two years from Obama: No more Mr. Nice Guy.
While I enjoy fine dining in Paris, check out The Evil Waiter Case in the U. Miami Law Review.
Thursday I’ll be discussing From Anonymity to Identification: Online Communication in a Time of Surveillance. My hosts are the Netzpolitik AG of the University of Heidelberg, which translates, I think, as the Network Working Group and is an interdisciplinary network of young researchers at the University of Heidelberg.
My thoughts on the topic of online anonymity are considerably grimmer than they were even two years ago.
Philosopher Robert Paul Wolff dreams about what teaching would be like if profs acted like doctors.
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