Trump was right to violate the US embargo of Cuba

Filed in National by on September 30, 2016

Henry David Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience” in response to his 1846 one night imprisonment for refusing to pay a poll tax that violated his conscience.

“Civil Disobedience,” became the blueprint for people like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Donald Trump all of whom used principled, non-violence to battle injustice.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Thoreau’s call to stand for what one thinks is right no doubt informed Trump’s decision to break the ineffectual and injustice US embargo of Cuba in 1998. And while he may have blunted the social justice impact of his brave stand against our economic war on Cuba by lying about not breaking the embargo, that does not change the fact that Trump, like Che before him, put the people of Cuba ahead of a deleterious and morally corrupt US policy.

MLK

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  1. Delaware Dem says:

    You’re a funny guy.

  2. jason330 says:

    I’m glad this issue came up, because I feel gratified to be the first person to group Gandhi, MLK, and Trump together this election cycle.

  3. Delaware Dem says:

    Trump had to have done it before you.

  4. Mitch Crane says:

    I his defiant act of civil disobedience, Mr. Trump forgot the key elements:

    Civil Disobedience is an open act of defiance of a perceived injustice, performed by breaking a law in the process. Mr Trump forgot to do let the world know about the injustice of the embargo by openly defying it.

    Civil Disobedience requires a personal sacrifice. Mr. Trump believe the sacrifice is his hard work in making the secret investment.

    Civil Disobedience requires a deep and publicly demonstrated belief that are opposed to the perceived wrong. Mr. Trump publicly supports the embargo.

    But what do I know. Mr. Trump knows more than all of us. Believe him

  5. Jason330 says:

    Mitch you forgot one.
    – Trump thinks Henry David Thoreau is a Mara Lago butler.

  6. Dem19703 says:

    “like Che before him, put the people of Cuba ahead of a deleterious and morally corrupt US policy.”

    Exactly like Che. I expect the mass executions of dissenters as soon as he is sworn in, as well.

  7. Dem19703 says:

    “like Che before him, put the people of Cuba ahead of a deleterious and morally corrupt US policy.”

    Exactly like Che. I expect the mass executions of dissenters as soon as he is sworn in, as well.

  8. Dem19703 says:

    “like Che before him, put the people of Cuba ahead…”

    Exactly like Che. I expect the mass executions of dissenters as soon as he is sworn in, as well.

  9. Jason330 says:

    Viva the people’s revolution. I suppose.

  10. pandora says:

    I love this post so much! It’s brilliant!

  11. Dem19703 says:

    Jason, insert “some” instead of “the” in your statement, for accuracy’s sake.

  12. bob b. says:

    obviously, Jason330 is one incredibly ignorant asshole, from so many perspectives.

  13. Jason 330 says:

    Charmed, I’m sure.