Posted on 02/12/2002 9:14:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
HAVANA - Singer Carole King recently accompanied a delegation of U.S. representative from California to Cuba for a dinner with Fidel Castro.
The visit was meant to warm relations between the two countries.
King serenaded Castro with "You've Got A Friend" and a new song, "Love Makes the World." King says her songs were a message she wanted to bring there. She says her life and her work are all about communication and she wants to set an example of good will.
Carole King is best known for her 1971 album "Tapestry" that had the hit single "It's Too Late."
Singer Carole King, right, speaks with Cuban singer Carlos Varela, cantante cubano, in Havana Monday Feb. 11, 2002. King serenaded Fidel Castro with "You've Got a Friend" at a weekend dinner, and U.S. representatives from California shared wines from Napa and Sonoma, part of the latest effort to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)
She said she thinks we should communicate. What's wrong with that?
For once, my tendency to procrastinate has served me well.
The uniform?
I hope Michelle Malkin has enough time to write another peice on King and the others who go there to adore Castro
For those of you who don't know about the Arca foundation, it passes itself as a philanthropic organization that gives millions of dollars annually to organizations that fight for social justice around the world. Unfortunately a grand majority of these organizations are of a far leftist nature, like in 1998 when it gave $1,000 to an obscure contingent called Fondo Del Sol which helped surviving members of the Stalinist Abraham Lincoln Brigade view a photo exhibit on the Spanish Civil War! Among the pro Castro groups Arca has funded have been the Pastors for Peace ($10,000 in 1999), Global Exchange ($50,000 in 1999), and the TransAfrica Forum ($100,000).
Communist Cuba is the main focus of Arca's Foreign Policy grants list, and although it gives money to other international and domestic institutions, it annually gives a substantial amount of funds to causes dealing with communist Cuba. In 1999 alone, the Arca Foundation gave to over 19 organizations that are sympathetic to revolutionary Cuba. [End Excerpt]
Back in February of 2001 Cuba Policy Foundation and Sally Grooms Cowal was set up with money from Smith Bagley, (BIG DNC fundraiser-remember the "Elian" D.C. fundraisers?) . She previously was head of the Youth for Understanding and she "housed" Elian in D.C. until he was sent back to Castro. Seven U.S. Representatives were arriving here later Thursday with Sally Grooms Cowal..
These women should have stayed right here in the United States and talked to some of the "happy people" who escaped Castro's regime. They should have lunched with Eugenio de Sosa Chabau, who fled Cuba after two decades as a political prisoner. He could have told them about his 52-page complaint against Castro for crimes against humanity, which he filed with a group of nine Cuban exiles last fall under a Belgian war crimes law. He could have told them about his torture at the hands of Castro's Cuban Security Services in a Havana psychiatric hospital. He could have told them how he was hooked up to wet electrical prods and "treated" with 14 sessions of shock therapy delivered to his temples and testicles. [End Excerpt]
We are not at war with Iraq either. Would you like her to sing "You got a Friend" to Saddam next?
You really need to learn more about what a monster Castro is. Someone will probably be providing a good link for you on this thread.
As for dialog with Castro, he is a dinosaur who will not change. He waited for a socialist to be elected President that would bend to him. Janet Reno's "dialog" with Cuba resulted in a poor boy being sent back to Cuba where he will be a tool for the dictator to use. What we, and the people of Cuba need, is for Castro to die.
Embargos only hurt the common people. This has been demonstrated time and time again. How does adding to the misery of the cuban people help the cause of freedom and democracy?
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