Joe Doakes, de Como Park, envía un correo electrónico:
I recently vacationed in Mexico. The shops advertised Cuban cigars. I remember President Obama normalized relations with Cuba so Americans can now bring home Cuban cigars worth $100 for personal use. Great, I bought a box.
Except . . . I’ve learned not to trust that guy. Before I brought the cigars on the airplane, I did a little more checking. Media accounts were what I remembered but Newsweek mentioned “Americans eligible to travel to Cuba” can bring home cigars. Hang on, that’s lawyer speak, what’s that doing in the article? What does it actually mean? Finally found the Customs website.
If you buy Cuban cigars in Cuba, you can bring them home; if you buy Cuban cigars anywhere else, they’re still illegal. Attempting to bring them home is smuggling, a federal crime with a whopping fine and prison time.
Typical for this President, just like his big talk about closing Gitmo, slowing the rise of oceans, gun control . . . it’s announced to great fanfare but amounts to small beer. I left the cigars for the hotel maid in addition to the cash that I tipped her for looking after our room. I hope she finds a use for them.
Joe Doakes
Back in 2008, when people said “Obama will be a splendid president, because constitutional lawyer”, I used to respond “a President needs to know the same about the Constitution as a good cop, or maybe a high school civics teacher. Politicians who are lawyers like to play games with the law. Never trust them.”
I take no pleasure from getting the last laugh.
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