http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/07/10/cuba-libre/ A First Things Blog Mon, 20 May 2013 23:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/07/10/cuba-libre/comment-page-1/#comment-19092 J. C. Marrero Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:17:01 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=18296#comment-19092 A regime that chooses to sentence peaceful dissidents to 25 years’ incarceration for establishing independent lending libraries will release them when convenient and then re-arrest them as needed. Praise God whenever any political prisoner anywhere is released, but they should never have been arrested in the first place. This is Kabuki theater. A damaged Church gives a bloody regime credibility. And vice-versa. Let us not praise the wife-beater too much when he takes a day off from battering.

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