Civil Rights Activist Dying on Hunger Strike Near Guantanamo

The American Thinker ^ | March 28, 2009 | Humberto Fontova

[Scanian]

A civil rights activist inspired by Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King has been on a hunger strike since Feb.17th near Guantanamo Cuba, protesting the incarceration and "abuse" of hundreds of what he labels "prisoners of conscience."

"The Armed Forces call these men "enemy agents" and "terrorists," he says. "But this is a grotesque lie, typical of these racist generals and their millionaire cronies from the Military/Industrial complex who pull all the strings in this country!"

U.S. officials have refused to comment on the matter.

OK, OK, I'll come clean. The hunger striker is actually in Placetas, Cuba, roughly 300 miles from Guantanamo so "near Guantanamo" is a relative term. And the hunger-striker is a black anti-Communist Cuban named Antunez.

He's protesting (in terms very similar to those I quoted above) against Stalinism in a nation 90 miles from U.S. shores. This explains why you've never heard of him in the MSM.

Now, if he'd been a black terrorist/socialist protesting segregation 8000 miles from U.S. shores (Nelson Mandela) the MSM would have been clobbering you over the head with his plight almost daily-as they did during the late 80's.

So please excuse my flim-flammery as an intro to this article. Had I spelt out clearly that Cuba's Stalinist regime ( rather than America's democratic government) was responsible for the racist tortures provoking the hunger-strike, no major media organ -- it goes without saying -- would deign to report the crime, as they've ignored Castroite crimes for half a century. My hope (clearly in vain) was that the MSM's 50 year-old tradition might suffer a brief hiccup. I should have known better.

A Samizdat recent smuggled from Cuba quotes Antunez:

"none of the foreign press agencies accredited to work in Cuba have reported this

[Scanian]

Human rights protest against torture and abuse by Castro regime, NOT by U.S. At Gitmo.

[wita]

Thanks, the flim-flammery had me confused.

[Feckless]

Won't somebody help that poor man? (Blazing Saddles)

...by putting a .45 in his ear... (me)

[mimaw]

Me too. I was looking forward to reading a good story on Saturday morning to lift my spirits.