According to the AP, President Bush is allowing Americans to "send cell phones to Cubans -- a move that he hopes will push the communist regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens."
Bush said that if Cuban people can be trusted with cell phones, "they should be trusted to speak freely in public."
Which I think raises several questions: Are we "trusted" to speak freely in public? What does this mean, in the context of a government administration (from a party that claims to be "small government") that listens in on our conversations, looking for "buzz words"? That the government trusts that we will be naive enough to speak our minds on unsecure phone lines? So they can weed out the non-patriotic?
And how far does our ability to listen in on cell phone conversations extend?
As far as, say, the distance between Miami and Havana?
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