Dictators to the Right of me, Presidents to the Left

American Thinker ^ | 1/4/09 | Humberto Fontova

[slickeroo]

Dictators' to the Right of me, 'Presidents' to the Left

By Humberto Fontova

From the AP to Reuters and from the New York Times to the Washington Post the MSM stories on the Cuban Revolution” 50th anniversary all mention a “dictator”-- but his name is Batista. The Castro brothers invariably appear as “Presidents.” Fidel Castro has ruled (unelected) longer than Hitler and Stalin combined and mandates what his subjects, read, say, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work. No matter. He's a “president”

You will search these stories in utter vain for any mention of mass-murder and jailings or torture—on the part of the Castros that is. Yet mass-repression started on day one of the Castroite triumph and kicked into highest gear in the mid 60's, precisely at the apex of the Castro/Che popularity with western politicians, celebrities and “intellectuals.”

In April 1959, three months after his triumph, Castro toured the US to thunderous acclaim. At the time of his delirious, deafening, foot-stomping receptions at Harvard Law School and the National Press Club (most of whose members oppose capital punishment), his firing squads had slaughtered 1,168 men -- and boys, some as young as 15.

By the time Norman Mailer (another opponent of capital punishment) was hailing Fidel Castro as "the greatest hero to appear in the Americas!" his hero's firing squads had piled up 4,000 corpses and one of 18 Cubans was a political prisoner, an incarceration rate that surpassed Stalin's.

By 1975, when George McGovern (another opponent of capital punishment) was calling Castro a "very shy and sensitive, a man I regard as a friend," the bullet-riddled bodies of over 10,000 Cubans lay in unmarked graves.

[slickeroo]

"Castro has done some good things for Cuba" says Colin Powell?!

[gusopol3]

this is a really good article that deserves a whole lot more attention of FR. It’s Fontova who has broken the silence on Fidel/Che’s 1962 Black Friday terror plot to bomb packed downtown department stores in NYC.