Cuban rocker deemed government threat on trial today

What ever happened to free speech?

And anyone think he looks like Maradona?

Human Rights Watch in their report Cuba's Repressive Machinery describes it as follows:

Dangerousness

Cuban law defines dangerousness (el estado peligroso) as "the special proclivity of a person to commit crimes, demonstrated by conduct that is observed to be in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality." Signs of dangerousness include "anti-social conduct" or general behavior that "perturbs theorder of the community." The law states that "mentally deranged [persons] and persons with retarded mental development" are guilty of dangerousness if they represent a threat to the "social order" or to the security of others.79 The breadth of the dangerousness law permits Cuban authorities to employ it for politicized or discriminatory reasons.

If Cuba determines that someone is dangerous, the Criminal Code allows the state to impose "pre-criminal measures," including surveillance by the National Revolutionary Police and reeducation for periods of one to four years. The state may detain the person during this time. The law also provides for "therapeutic measures," including detention in a psychiatric hospital, that are continued "until the dangerousness disappears from the subject."80 The open-ended nature of this punishment affords the state extraordinary authority to abuse the rights of political opponents and the developmentally disabled.

http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/cuba/Cuba996-03.htm#P576_78223

Basically its a thought crime or pre-crime if you saw the movie Minority Report where the government is able to see into the future and like Bush's preemptive wars we now have preemptive arrests.

Reports coming in that the trial is closed door and diplomats and friends of Gorki were barred from attending the trial that was still going on as of 1:30pm.

As I write this punk rocker Gorki is in the midst of a closed door trial for "predilection to social dangerousness." In a show trial with equal parts Stalin and Kafka.

Read up on his plight and listen to some his music, and express your opinion.

GORKI FREE! Statement by Gorki

Gorki: Imaginate, de un juicio politico tuvieron que hacerme un juicio por conducta antisocial, por hacer ruido, etc, gracias a la enorme presion internacional y la verdad en la mano, y el abogado Henry Rosello, un valiente, gracias a eso pudimos derrotarlos.... Lo unico que me pudieron decir fue lo del ruido.... Te tengo que decir, estoy impresionado por el apoyo. Nunca me imagine que tanta gente en todo el mundo fuera a apoyarme de esa manera.

Gorki: "Imagine, from a political trial they had to try me for antisocial conduct, for making noise etc, thanks to the enormous international pressure y and the truth at hand, and the lawyer Henry Rosello, the brave, thanks to all that we were able to defeat them...The only thing they could tell me was about the noise ...I have to say that I am impressed by the support. I never imagined that so many people in the world would support me in this manner.
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Full interview available here in Spanish
http://www.blacksheepofexile.blogspot.com/