Branding someone as a "pre-criminal social danger," has become a favorite way of the Castro dictatorship, especially under Raúl Castro, to target dissent and the dissenters. By definition, someone found "guilty" of being a social danger has not yet committed a crime, it's just that the police and courts, in typical dictatorial fashion, have been granted for the ability to predict who might pose a future danger and to throw them in jail for as long as 4 years.
The indicators apparently include certain beliefs — like in freedom and democracy — associations — like with others of similar beliefs — and other conduct "that is observed to be in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.”
That conduct includes getting certain tattoos.
Robier Cruz Campo, 21, of Holguin said police threatened to label him a "pre-criminal social danger" after he had the "PLC" (the Spanish acronym for the Cuban Liberal Party) tattooed on his arm, according to a reported posted last week at Payo Libre.
The threat is the latest evidence that the dictatorship has Cruz within its sights. Cruz said he has been assaulted several times, and in August he was fined 5,000 pesos after he and several others were intercepted while trying to leave Cuba on a boat.
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