Posted on 11/26/2016 4:35:37 PM PST by HokieMom
You will hear some people today excuse Fidel Castro’s crimes by begging that he accomplished social goals. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have already beclowned themselves on that front. They were merely the first.
Our own President Barack Obama opted for washing his hands, choosing to neither praise Castro after his death Friday, nor to condemn the tragedy his communist dictatorship has inflicted on the Cuban people for 57 years. “History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him,” said Obama playing Pilate.
No social accomplishment, to be sure, could justify keeping an entire people hostage, denying them the right to elect their own leaders or exercise any human rights for half a century. But there weren’t any accomplishments.
On the contrary, Castro destroyed a thriving society and imposed penury, either out of Marxist dogma or out of resentment that his out-of-wedlock birth had left him with a stigma among Cuba’s middle classes.
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In his later years, George Plimpton revealed some of the darker things he'd seen in his career, including what happened while he was in Cuba interviewing Hemingway in the early Castro days ---
“There’s something you should see,” Hemingway told Plimpton while preparing a shaker of drinks for the outing….they got in the car with a few others and drove some way out of town. They got out, set up chairs and took out the drinks, as if they were going to watch the sunset.
Soon, a truck arrived. This, explained George, was what they’d been waiting for. It came, as Hemingway knew the same time each day. It stopped and some men with guns got out of it. In the back were a couple of dozen others who were tied up. Prisoners.
The men with guns hustled the others out of the back of the truck, and lined them up.–FUEGO!!!– Then they shot them. They put the bodies back into the truck.”
DPRK News Service@DPRK_News 8h8 hours ago
United States actor and humanitarian Sean Penn said to be in deep gloom, angst, and agony following death of beloved caudillo Fidel Castro.
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DPRK News Service@DPRK_News 12h12 hours ago
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un extends invitation to Jimmy Carter, Justin Trudeau and Ken Livingston to praise education and health care of DPRK
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DPRK News Service@DPRK_News 12h12 hours ago
Political undesirables repressed under Cuban President Fidel Castro said to have enjoy highest levels of literacy and free dental care.
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DPRK News Service@DPRK_News 12h12 hours ago
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un sends the Fruit Basket of Sorrow to grieving Cuban peoples.
Just wait for the obama legacy
The Truth About Fidel Castro | The Cuban Revolution
by Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EhlTI0fte0
I drove by the Pentagon today and U.S. flags were at half staff. Please tell me Obama didn’t order this to pay his respects to Castro. Is there some other reason?
Someone called into Steve Malzburg’s radio show on WMAL earlier this afternoon about the flags at half staff. They were hoping it’s for the soldier we lost in Syria this week and not Castro.
Armed deplorables, that is.
;^)
The left loves totalitarian dictators who give “free” healthcare.
It takes a commie to praise fellow comrade like Castro! Castro’s death now gives some of these commies an opportunity to show their true colors (or color: red).
Not appalling - EXPECTED!
*SPIT*
Canada’s Prime Minkster, JustIN Fluedough, Canada’s Commie Village Idiot, is praising the ba$tard.
Have Bernie Sanders and his supporters expressed their sorrow yet?
Yes, increasingly so in my twitter feed.
That figures. I did see one post along the lines of “If you praise Castro you have no business criticizing Trump” which was refreshing.
Rev Jesse Jackson SrVerified account @RevJJackson
In many ways, after 1959, the oppressed the world over joined Castro's cause of fighting for freedom & liberation-he changed the world. RIP
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Mike Pence @mike_pence 11h11 hours ago
The tyrant #Castro is dead. New hope dawns. We will stand with the oppressed Cuban people for a free and democratic Cuba. Viva Cuba Libre!
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