The Antithesis of Michael Moore: Real Courage in Cuba

American Thinker ^ | May 19, 2007 | John Mendez

[Zakeet]

There’s been much made recently about the vaunted Cuban medical system since propagandist Michael Moore traveled to Havana with 9/11 heroes in tow searching for "free" health care. It’s Mr. Moore’s idea of a clever way to criticize America and the capitalist system he exploits so brilliantly. Of course, it never actually occurred to him that while he was "free" to film in Cuba there were political prisons suffering in Castro’s gulags simply for doing exactly what Moore thinks is his sole universal right; speaking out. A big mouth coupled with a small mind is a dangerous combination.

That Moore would use his craft to spew the Castro party line isn’t surprising when you consider they are both geniuses at hypocrisy and self-promotion. Castro supposedly wanted power in order to depose a dictator and re-establish the "power of the people," but nearly five decades later without an election, he has become one of history’s most despicable tyrants, the full indictment of whom won’t be known until the inevitable fall of his particularly vehement brand of communism in Havana. Moore, for his part, pretends to care about social issues so long as he makes bundles of cash; only pathologically anti-American leftists don’t seem to notice or care.

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Speaking out against America is cheap and easy but is far from courageous. America doesn’t have a secret police or nasty little military to anchor a leader’s repression regardless of the disturbed claims from an unhinged left to the contrary. Courage means facing consequences; real consequences not simply a dip in the popularity scale.

[Zakeet]

The author's main complaint is the Hollywierd elitists to do anything other than complain about the U.S. because to do so might cause them some peril. For example:

So despite the self-aggrandizing calls from a George Clooney to "keep making courageous films," these faux activists are cowards. While Clooney may ask for help in Darfur, he doesn’t dare criticize the biggest accomplice to the tragedy, China. He understands fully that the consequences of criticizing the Chinese government might mean a ban on his movies; so he walks a fine line instead calling on President Bush to "stop the genocide" as if the US had any control.

This is a great article.

[EGPWS]

There’s been much made recently about the vaunted Cuban medical system since propagandist Michael Moore traveled to Havana with 9/11 heroes in tow searching for "free" health care.

Someday they will understand that you get what you pay for.....

[Aria]

My son’s future mother in law was the daughter of the French ambassador to Cuba. At one point she was imprisoned by Castro’s secret police and tortured for months and apparently still suffers today from this - many years later. A priest helped her escape and she fled to Europe where she met and married a man who was fleeing Russian communism.
I think she’d have some choice words for Michael Moore and his buddies.

[jobim]

I am closing my world history class for the year by reading from “Against All Hope” by Armanda Valladares, about 2 hours’ worth. I am telling the students to think carefully about the blockbuster movie coming this summer by Moore, and decide which Cuba is the real one.