The US is to blame for the lack of information in Cuba?

Oh yeah, we're the ones that restrict Cuban internet access. Oh yeah, we turned away journalists sent to cover the dissident assembly in May. Oh yeah, we don't spend millions of US dollars trying to inform the Cuban people through Radio and TV Marti. Our top diplomat in Cuba doesn't distribute banned literature and materials. Of course! It's all the Great Satan's fault. These cynical bastards! They'll never realize the US is the ONLY country that is actually trying to BREAK the information barrier. Countries like Spain and Canada simply do business with the Island ignoring the total lack of ordinary freedoms. What exactly has Canada done to encourage free speech, free thought? Nothing. They are all a bunch of F---ing hypocrites. They say we're the imperialists, that we're out for the almighty dollar. I say hogwash. It's them. If we just wanted money, we would have already been doing business with the Tyrant. If we wanted oil from Iraq, we would have simply bought it, not mortgaged our future on a gamble that peace and democracy could thrive in the heart of the intolerant middle east.

Que tu esperas Valintin? These people will always be appologists because they will never give up their stance even as it bites them in the ass. Again, they'll trash the US and Cuban freedom fighters because it doesn't fit thier agenda of playing nice with dictators. I bet they'll kiss the Vietnamese PM's ass too. They think that by playing nice with these types of people they will make them reason and turn them into good and kind leaders (LOL). Idiots! That's like saying if Ted Bundy's victims would have just given in they would all be alive today. Again blaming the victems for their conditions. We should all write letters demanding they give proper respect to genuine freedom loving librerians Roberto Coles and Berta Maxidor. I'm shooting one off today I'll copy you. I know it won't do any good but it has to be done.

Friend and amigos: that bastard pro-Castro "Playa Giròn" again commented on my blog,saying "you always criticizes Castro, but in the rest of the world he is not seen as the evil "..

http://freethoughts.splinder.com/post/5098004#comment-12393397

Let's attack him ! :)

"Playa Giròn" again commented on my blog,saying "you always criticizes Castro, but in the rest of the world he is not seen as the evil "..

THAT IS BECAUSE THE REST OF THE WORLD IS EVIL -

WHO CARES WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD THINKS!?

WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS FREEDOM FOR CUBA - NO COMPROMISES - AND NO PRISONERS TAKEN - SCREW CASTRO AND THE REST OF THE WORLD THAT LOVES HIM SO MUCH. NOW I KNOW WHO MY ENEMIES ARE!

Stefania,

Tell him that at one time most of the World didn't think Mussolini was evil. That Hitler was evil. That Stalin was evil. How many times must history have to repeat itself for people to realize what's going on? What will he say when Castro finally kicks it and all the abuses and atrocities are brought to light? Will he stand there and say "I didn't know"? Probably not. You won't hear from him. He'll be off idolizing some other soon to be discredited despot.

I think our efforts are better served by talking to reasonable people that we may actually enlighten, not bitter losers that simply hate anything America stands for, just because America stands for it. Stefania, that doesn't mean that everyone should love America's policies. People can differ with policies but they shouldn't fool themselves into thinking we're a imperialist state. Most of these people are intellectually dishonest meaning that if the US reversed a policy that they are against today, then tomorrow they would be against the new policy or say it isn't enough. No way to win an argument with such people because their only core belief is jealousy and hatred.

That the ALA's leadership widely adheres to the old Russian political slogan, no enemies to the left, is widely known in the library world so they are never going to criticize Castro.

You know, this whole business reminds me: You're not really an intellectual if you place ideology or phony postures and credentials higher than the truth. And much of the apologetics for Castro and his obscene regime owe to mass-produced McLeftist / McMarxist nonsense or a desire not to sully one's own reputation by being seein doing something so vulgar as criticizing El Barbudo-Doodoo.

But the truth is under his control he's turned that country into a place where robbery, rape, murder, assault, and slavery (the five horsemen of communism) are everyday practices the government uses to serve its own interests - usually low purposes like vanity and greed. Denying this stuff does not imply a superior mind. Just a capacity for self-delusion stronger than the intelligence, or a moral vanity that sees one's "the way it ought to be" visions as more important than what goes on in the real world. Or a pathetic desire to be liked and held in high regard by people who will shun you for dissing Castro but will never shun Castro no matter what he does.

And seeing custodians of knowledge - academics and librarians - metaphorically bob their heads in Castro's metaphorical lap is simply a disgrace.

read the statement that the ALA released at:

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=96742

these guys are frickin incredible.

Like the rest of the morally bankrupt left, these marxists collaborators are selective in their censorship. If my memory is correct they have also blocked distribution of an anti-Hilary Clinton book, an art exhibit was pulled because the artist would not agree to remove her paintings of Jesus. Note the library had no problem with the Ten Commandments and other religious works. Their argument was it might upset some of the children. This list could go on and on.

Thanks for the link Val. It's truly disgusting to see the rottenness of certain people in America, but I guess that's fashionable nowadays...

Hey...
I just got an email from one of my friends asking me to sign a petition to ask congress not to stop funding PBS and NPR....anything on that????
the organization asking for signatures is MoveOn.org!
Don't know much about these people, but it smells like rotten fish to me...
anyone has comments???
carmen

Carmen, sounds like either a hoax or a scam to get names of people to harass. If it comes out of MoveOn, don't trust it. It's likely to be booby trapped.

Carmen, I also received this email a couple of weeks ago. Here's my take on this. PBS and NPR have done some good shows over the years, but they are, in my opinion controlled by the left. Think Bill Moyers. Putting politics aside, my biggest beef with them is that they are obsolete. The government started funding them back in the days when the airwaves were dominated by the large networks. There was no cable, no diversity. PBS & NPR were funded to fill that gap. At this point in time, it seems a waste of taxpayer dollars to me. NPR's politics are so bad I've been caught beating on the car radio in frustration. I no longer listen to them.

OK I know some of you here are former victims of Castro's regime, what do you think of the Patriot Act? Is it a crushing tyrranical law brutally demolishing civil rights? You'd know far better than the average American what that's all about.

I've never been to Cuba, but based on ALL reasonable accounts, "crushing tyrannical law which brutally demolishes civil rights" is what you'd find there, NOT in the Patriot Act.

Robert, during WWII there were measures that were a lot more imposing on the American public than the Patriot act is, but thenagain, that generation was not full of self absorved crybabies and greedy lawyers. We might not be in a declared war now but in a war we definitelly are. Small groups of determined people because of technology can possibly wield more power in a localized scenario than those nations that were our enemies back then. As soon as the war ended those measures were rescinded, maybe too soon, as communist penetration in our government flourished. Released information from the Venona files and opened soviet archives verified this, and showed that Joe McCarthy was not such a screwball after all. Lets defend ourselves properly by not extending those same constitutional guarantees to those noncitizen enemies which crash airplanes into our buildings full of people and worse.

CHRISTOPHER
PLEASE EXPLAIN WHERE IN THE PATRIOT ACT ARE YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS ABOLISHED???
HAVE YOU BEEN GETTING INFORMATION FROM THE A.C.L.U. MAYBE???
JUST CHECKING.....

I just read this. Shame on the ALA.

RESOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF DELEGATES OF THE POLISH
LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

Participants of the National Congress of Delegates of the Polish
Librarians Association, who have deliberated on June 4-5, 2005, in Warsaw:

- express their protest against the persecutions of Cuban librarians,
who organize independent libraries,

- demand the release from prison of fellow librarians and the remaining
individuals acting for the cause of freedom of _expression,
intellectual freedom and unlimited access to the intellectual accomplishments of
humanity,

- appeal to other library organizations, as well as IFLA, to join
efforts in the defense of independent librarians and in the support of the
forming independent libraries in Cuba.