Somos Useful Idiots: CodePink to defend constitution by visiting Cuba

codepink cuba trip

CodePink is organizing a sex tour peace and freedom tour of Cuba, and you're invited:

This New Year's CODEPINK will be organizing a large group of fun-loving and freedom-loving Americans to break George Bush's ban on travel to Cuba. Join co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, together with Academy Award winning producer Paul Haggis, as we visit with farmers at their co-ops, doctors at their family clinics, dancers at the National Folklore Group, and young people at the ballpark. Don't miss this historic chance to dance salsa, drink mojitos, and visit beautiful beaches—all while defending our constitutional rights!!!

Yes, but what about the sex tour sugar beet collective farm tours? What about the visit to brothels the People's Museo of the Collective Struggle Against Oppression in Angola People's 1976 Brigade Counter-Reactionary Action Museum? Will those be included?

...The Bush administration says we can only travel to Cuba if we have immediate family there. Well, we do. Cubans ARE family - Somos Familia. And while we're there, we'll be holding a mutual adoption ceremony in order to demonstrate that family transcends political boundaries. In the ceremony, each participant will be paired with a Cuban brother or sister. After all, we are all part of one human family and there should be no artificial barriers dividing us...

Note also that while you probably thought the ban on travel to Cuba pre-dated Our Lider by a few years, you were obviously wrong.

To sign up, you need to agree to this:

Signing the waiver will confirm your understanding that CODEPINK neither seeks nor accepts a license from the U.S. Government to travel to Cuba. This trip will explicitly challenge the United States restrictions on travel to Cuba, including press releases and conferences and acknowledging to government officials that we are traveling to and from Cuba

In other words, you're useful idiot pawns in yet another Medea Benjamin attempt to grab attention. I'll let someone else weigh in on the legal issues, but there isn't much more in their "waiver". They don't explicitly state all the bad things that could happen, perhaps leading someone who has problems to try to sue them or something...

Also, I wonder whether CP will vet their participants to make sure they aren't on the other side. Of course, there's probably only an extremely small chance that some spook or other would join up to spy on the "liberals" or the Cubans. Don't even think about that possibility! No one would ever do that.