Like any good, (soy) latte-sipping American, I am. I propose we learn from Cuba:
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba - April 19 (Jorge Ramón Castillo, ICDPress /
www.cubanet.org) - Several government officials, headed by zone delegate Hugo Cuesta, visited Omar Hung at home on Sunday and hectored him for refusing to vote in municipal elections held that day.The officials reminded Hung that the recommendation of neighborhood authorities are necessary for just about any transaction involving work or study opportunities, and told him his present attitude would bar him later from favorable consideration along those lines.
Hung refused to vote, in spite of his father's entreaties to go and save himself the aggravation. He argued that if the elections were free, why would they force him to participate.
A physician who is Hung's neighbor and also a government opponent, Evelio Manteira, did not vote in the election, and as far as is known, was not visited by the group.
An economist who asked not to be identified said: "I went to vote so as not to brand myself as a counterrevolutionary, because I could lose my job."
Ahhh, that makes me feel better!
