An Associated Press story this morning prompts me to realize I’ve never understood the language of our trade restrictions on the purchase or smoking of Cuban cigars.
The “Governator” (Gov. Schwarzenegger) was featured as having potentially broken the U.S. trade sanction against Cuban cigars when he not only purchased one in Canada, but had the unmitigated gall to actually smoke the darned thing.
I confess. I didn’t know that it was illegal for me to buy and smoke a Cuban cigar so long as I wasn’t in the U.S. I thought I understood that any such “contraband” I tried to bring into this country would be confiscated.
Several thoughts on this…
…I may’ve broken this law, but since I smoked the evidence, that will never be known.
…I may not have broken this law since I may’ve simply purchased and consumed a counterfeit Cuban cigar as have tens of thousands of others.
…Have we not enough really serious issues to focus on?
…Could Pres. Kennedy be charged posthumously since he squirreled away a several year supply just before he embargoed these cigars?
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