Maybe someday soon I'll be able to afford one of these primos.
Posted on 08/01/2006 5:08:32 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Cuban Communism: Fidel Castro's slide toward death's embrace is bringing closer the island-state's day of reckoning: Either it lives free or dies a tyranny. The U.S. must now push for freedom relentlessly.
The ailing dictator will probably go out the way he shouldn't — in his bed. But the legacy he leaves just 90 miles from our shores is one of the worst in the world and should be destroyed.
Contrary to the media's puerile awe at the 79-year-old Castro's significance — he's often reverently called "the longest-serving" Latin American ruler or "maverick leader" — he is one of the world's most brutal, ruthless tyrants. And with popular democracy blossoming all over the world, pretending that Cuba's an exception and Cuba's people have no desire for freedom isn't credible.
This tropical Stalin enslaved and impoverished his nation by driving one-tenth of its 11 million people into exile, often on flimsy boats in shark-infested waters. With no regard for human rights, Castro is responsible for at least 70,000 deaths, either through desperate bids to escape or summary execution.
Inside Cuba, Castro crushed the human spirit and ended human freedoms. His claims of trumping them with health care, literacy and "revolution" are all unmitigated frauds. Cuba's Potemkin economy collapsed along with the USSR. It never recovered.
The Cuba that Castro took over in 1959 is utterly gone now, the remaining shell beset by shortages, atrocious medical care (see photos at babalublog.com or therealcuba.com) and ideologically corrupted "education" in a country where thinking is forbidden.
Cuba is the only place where the hazy memory of the pre-Castro era, through artifacts like 1959 phone books — still seen in tattered Havana markets — shows heart-withering evidence of an entire human civilization blown to dust by Castro's brutal regime.
Amid food lines...theft and corruption...
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My picture of the real Castro begins with the Cuban missile crisis, when Castro argued with Khruschev over the necessity of removing the nukes from Cuba. Castro argued that, if necessary, the Soviet Union should launch the missiles at the United States. This willingness to incinerate millions of Americans is lost on our "peace" people, who venerate the old dictator.
I look forward to the day that many Free Cubans can piss on his grave.
The exploitation of the Cuban workers!
47 years of oppression!
47 years without a free election!
47 years without a free press!
47 years without human rights!
47 years with a ration book!
200,000 deaths and 2,000,000 exiles!
http://www.therealcuba.com/
And in the U.S. there are elected government officials (Democrats) who admire Castro's policies.
In the long run, liberal thinking ALWAYS results in Communism.
Just wait. Hugo Chavez will claim is Billion-a-year subsidy to Cuba gives him landing rights. He'll show up
with a batallion of 'rangers' to take over the island and
protect his investment.
There might be a few Floridians willing to go meet him.
The Truth Revealed.
Yep. Where's Olly Stone? Where's Danny Glover?
I haven't seen a thread dedicated to all the families Castro has shattered or all the lives he has ruined or the sheer butchery of all those murdered to support the "people's revolution".
I have several friends who either fled Cuba at the time or whose family did. One of my friends told me about fleeing Cuba as Castro was consolidating his power. She remembers that day very well, you see. Her, her mother, her father, her brother, and her two sisters were all literally in line to board a plane for Mexico. As they were about to board some of Castro's minions grabbed her brother out of line and told him that because he was of draft age that he was not allowed to leave the island. Her mother couldn't leave her son behind and all alone. She told her father to board with the girls and go, they would catch up later. It has now been over forty years and that is the last time she saw her mother or her brother. She has no idea what happened to them.
So sad. I used to love Danny Glover and his movies. Then I saw him shoulder-to-shoulder with Castro, and that burst my bubble quite nicely.
How incredibly sad. That's the kind of detail people need to know when recalling the life of the bearded barbarian. He was wholly a monster. He did nothing for Cuba but harm its people.
I lost family to Castro's Cuba. Two great Uncle's were forced to stay after the "revolucion". Thankfully, my Grandfather got out and my father met my mom at the USO dance. LOL So sad, so much lost.
You know, that's why I think we ought to just pull no punches and just invade the place. Why should castro die in his bed? He should die in a hail of gunfire, or swinging from a lamp post. He needs the Ceaucescu treatment. I just don't care what anyone else says, Castro is one of the worst curses on all humanity. We can't just stand by. We need to move in and mow these tyrants down and dust our hands off and too bad if the eurotrash don't like it.
I am truly sorry for your loss. But, take joy in the fact that YOU will know a Free Cuba. The time is at hand. With every second we are getting closer to the day that the people of Cuba are free of the horrors of Castro forever.
Now, if I could just convince 20-year old college students that wearing a shirt with Che on it is not cool.
Maybe someday soon I'll be able to afford one of these primos.
bttt
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