Posted on 05/08/2003 2:20:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
''CUBA IS AN anachronism in our hemisphere, an anachronism on the face of the earth,'' Secretary of State Colin Powell remarked the other day. ''And the whole international community should be condemning Cuba.''
Who could disagree? In a ruthless crackdown just four weeks ago, the Castro regime rounded up 75 peaceful dissidents - economists, journalists, pro-democracy petitioners, even a poet or two - and sentenced them to prison terms of up to 28 years. The combined total of their sentences was a stunning 1,454 years. One US official characterized it as ''the most despicable act of political repression in the Americas in a decade.'' No less barbaric was the fate of three Cubans who attempted to escape Castro's island gulag by hijacking a ferry to Florida: They were killed by firing squad. Of course the whole international community should be condemning Cuba.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Left wing fascism is alive and well in the U.S. as well. Just look at the polls favoring Hiltery Rotten.
A far more famous celebrity than Yoko Ono, Oliver Stone, Harry Belafonte or Danny Glover onced fawned over another despot. The celebriy's message then was the same: "It is the American President, not the Despot, that the World should really fear".
Charles Lindbergh patting the head of the Nazi dragon in a cartoon by Theodor Seuss Geisel (later known as "Dr. Seuss"):
Bump!
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