An earlier version of this post first appeared Dec. 17, 2009.
Cuban opposition activist Omar Vidal Núñez Espinosa in November 2009 was sentenced to 2 years in prison after being found to be a "pre-criminal social danger."
No details were available on what "socially dangerous" thing he did to get himself thrown in jail, but it likely had everything to do with his activities with the Central Opposition Coalition and nothing to do with committing an actual crime.
Not that the charge — which only George Orwell could completely understand since the dictatorship reserves for itself the ability to determine who might be a danger because of what they say or with whom they associate — requires that a real crime be committed first.
Cuban jails are filled with such troublemakers.
As a dictatorship, the Castro regime, I guess, doesn't have to justify the ways it uses to repress the Cuban people.
That it has created the notion of "pre-criminal social dangerousness" — a Castroization of Orwell's "thought crime" — reveals to what totalitarian extent it will go to hold on to its power.
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