[Cincinatus' Wife]

For Eamon, the highlight was hearing Fidel Castro speak. "I had thought of him as seriously evil. I realized he's not evil, he's doing what he thinks is best. He has this sort of demeanor about him. Whether you like him or not, you respect him. It opened my eyes."

His eyes need to be opened wider

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks on TV, March 5, 2002. Castro commented on the scandal around the Mexican embassy in Havana, stormed last week by a group of 21 Cubans in a hijacked bus. The men were later expelled by authorities. REUTER

[Jen]

This will open some eyes! Eeeeeeeeeewwww!

Two, four, six, eight!
Do you appreciate --
Free Republic?

The longer the FReepathon lasts, the longer you'll see me! Oh the horror! Donate now. Do it 'for the children.'

Have a Heart! Do Your Part!

[pollwatcher]

Did the kiddies show any photos illustrating the world's highest rate of murder and rape found in "liberated" S. Africa?

Did Castro show them any glossy brochures of his Homosexual Prison Farms?

[daviddennis]

You know, somehow this article implies that these are poor, underpriveliged kids. I'm not even sure how it does it, but that was the impression I got until I saw the cities.

Pacific Palisades (cheapest house: $550,000), Venice (cheapest house: $339,000), Marina del Rey (cheapest house: $425,000), Santa Monica (cheapest house $320,000), etc.

It seems to me that the kids went through a healthy amount of brainwashing before they started the trip, and the trip was carefully arranged to emphasize what they'd already been told.

If it made them more interested in the world around them and more involved, it might have been worth it. I thought their encounter with their fellow kids after they returned was interesting - most of them weren't curious, or wanted to be "cool" by not admitting curiosity, and I think that's a darn shame.

I'm still distinctly uncomfortable with the brainwashing.

D

[Gaston]

Oh great. A PC field trip.

[MarkWar]

>With cameras around their necks and a mandate to photograph whatever intrigued them, they went off for two weeks to document life in South Africa from their perspective--that of 8- to 16-year-old urban Los Angeles kids.

Can't read. Can't write.

Can make photo documentaries.

Somewhere Steve Jobs is smiling.

Everywhere, home school parents are saying, "Thank God we got out!"

Mark W.