This is what I have been maintaining for decades: that the U.S. embargo against Cuba is not only an illegitimate act of state-sponsored terrorism against the Cuban populace but also constitutes the destruction of the fundamental rights of the American people of economic liberty, freedom of travel, private property, freedom of trade, liberty of contract, and freedom of association.
The Empire’s actions against Benjamin and Piker remind us of what the Empire did to American citizen Bert Sacks. He committed the audacious “crime” of violating the Empire’s beloved sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s, which were killing, by design, tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens, especially children, in an unsuccessful attempt at regime change. Motivated by a crisis of conscience, Sacks did the same things that Benjamin and Piker supposedly have done. He traveled to Iraq with medicines and other essential items to help the Iraqi people survive the ruthless and vicious actions of the U.S. Empire.
