Good point!

Only difference is that Cubans will use force to evacute BEFORE the hurricane strikes instead of evacuating AFTER like in New Orleans. Yankees really fucked up this time.

Heh, I wonder what happens to you in Cuba if you refuse to be evacuated.

Cuba, which was cited by the United Nations as providing a model for hurricane response, offered to deploy 1,100 doctors and 26 tons of medical supplies ?

Yeah and when Castro tells you to go to New Orleans to help out, do you really have a choice?

Sure, there is something very skandinavian or protestantish about this state messing over individual for what is considered to be the greater common good, but it was certainly not a welfare state project. At the time there was no welfare state.

Philip, I put the sun glasses on, lift the collars and checked from the SETA pages. They mentioned also, that the homosexual acts were removed from the penal code in 1971 and from the disease classification in the beginning of the 80′s. This strange ‘kehotuspykälä’ (don’t ask anyone to abandon his straight ways and become gay) though was around up to 1999.

There are some “funny” police reports in the national archives from the 40′s about undercover “pervert surveillance operations”, where the detectives were hanging out behind Ateneum in Helsinki. One characterization of a person they were observing was “This jew is a real pervert champion”

there are a few gems though left;

Chapter 43 – Infringement of proper behaviour
Section 7
A person who entices a person under eighteen years of age into drinking an alcoholic beverage so that the latter gets drunk shall be sentenced to a fine.

I guess there’s no such thing as volountary evacuation in Cuba. They don’t need to waste time negotiating and persuading people to leave.

“Last year a category five hurricane hit the impoverished nation of Cuba with 160 M.P.H. winds. Yet the Cubans, for all of their faults, were able to evacuate 1.5 million people to high ground. Despite losing over 20,000 homes to winds and floodwaters, the casualty rate in Cuba was negligible. In New Orleans, by contrast, we left the poor, elderly, infirmed and otherwise vulnerable behind to die….

Cuba, which was cited by the United Nations as providing a model for hurricane response, offered to deploy 1,100 doctors and 26 tons of medical supplies ? with the first 100 doctors arriving wherever they were needed within 24 hours, with the rest following within 72 hours. The feds, however, prevented Cuba, Russia, Venezuela and a host of other governments from mounting relief efforts which could have reached survivors well before American National Guard troops were deployed.”

From washingtonpost.com:

“European diplomats said publicly that they understand the difficulty of coordinating such a massive recovery effort. In an open letter released yesterday, though, Ambassador John Bruton, head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, wrote:

“Perhaps one of those lessons will be that rugged individualism is not always enough in such a crisis, particularly if an individual does not have the material and psychological means to escape the fury of a hurricane in time.”

Ouch! John Wayne loses! That’s gonna hurt! Project for New American Century is not going well..

antti, I thought the laws on homosexuality in the penal code still exists, as quoted in the Rough Guide to Scandinavia.
Note there are laws on statute books like in the UK, MPs are not allowed to wear suits of armour in the House of Commons, giving a known prostitute an alcoholic drink in a bar, and technically, since the mid 17th century, Christmas is forbidden.

Yeah, I hate those too.

This was Finland.