Reply #13: Sex Tourism: Probably A Euphemism For a Crackdown on Cuban Travel [View All]

[Vogon_Glory]

I've lost most of my credulence regarding the George UU Bush administration and its pronouncements. Dubya's new campaign against sex tourism is probably less a genuine campaign against "sex tourism" than a cover story for imposing even tougher travel restrictions for non-Cuban-Americans wishing to visit Forbidden Island. Does anyone else remember the Bushie/CANF carping regarding former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's plans to visit Cuba? The right-wing critics implied that he was planning to be a "sex tourist."

Just as the Radical Right portrays any displays of adult erotica as "child pornography" and any cultural dissent from what right-wing evangelicals consider permissable as "pornographic," now we have any Americans wishing to defy the Republican/Cuban exile lobby travel restrictions labeled as "sex tourists."

I'll admit in retrospect that former president Bill was shifty at times, but the incumbent Republican administration is so mendacious that it's going to leave Bill Clinton looking like Parson Weem's portrait of George Washington by contrast.