jeff wrote:
Wayne Knight wrote:

As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't that
****ed up?



It would not be all that hard for you to get a Visa to visit Cuba
legally since you've had a magazine article or two printed IIRC. I got
permission just to go along with a writer in the early days of the
administration. If the travel and spending ban for the average Joe
ever gets rescinded, the BASS guys are going to go nuts.


apparently, there are ways to get there legally and fish.

The restrictions on Americans who can travel to Cuba are actually quite
specific and severe, and I don't fit into any of the categories.

I understand that the risk of traveling to Cuba illegally is pretty
small if you take precautions (risk of prosecution, I mean), but they do
exist and people have been prosecuted. But that wasn't my point.

The point is that the government has no business telling its citizens
where it can't travel. The are no other such restrictions covering any
other place in the world, as far as I'm aware.

The only reason for it, IMO, is to appease an important voting block
(Cuban Americans) in an important swing state (Florida). In fact, that's
the sole reason for the stupid and counterproductive embargo in general.

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