castro is evil. This is despicable. He just can't leave free thinkers alone. The Grim Reaper is tallying, barbudo. And he's coming soon. Your bill's gonna be high.

Marcelo Lopez, like all himan beings, does have rights but castro's regime is now afraid of its own shadow and is exhibiting the signs of desperation. Maybe Jim Defede could write a column about heroes like Marcelo Lopez?

Pastors for Peace is just another front of leftist-oriented people. They have always demonstrated to be pro-Castro, so what's new about them? There are many folks in this country who sympathize with the regime in Cuba.

"Human rights activists?" Howabout "misery tourists," "despair rubberneckers," folks who consider the poverty and misery of other people to be part of their right to view scenic, picturesque (and, perhaps, picaresque) settings uncontaminated by American consumerism?

Seriously, there are folks who believe they have a right to view scenery and that this dubious perk supercedes things like the right of people not to have fidel's foot on their necks, or, in some cases, to exist at all. If it takes castro to keep Cuba 'scenic', they're for it. If it takes banning DDT (and thereby sentencing millions of people to die) to keep Africa's population growth down in defense of scenery, so be it to them. And it's strange how this lily white crowd actually cares so little about anyone darker than itself, as long as the privation, slavery, misery, and death can serve some high sounding slogan that boils down to wanting something visually interesting to put on a postcard.

Funny thing is, I never really viewed a desire to see crumbling Eisenhower-era facades instead of clean modern housing as a "right" I have which entitles me to keep other people enslaved for my viewing pleasure. And anyone who does is a waste of air.

You read the travel to Cuba ads and they provide cover for the bastard’s apartheid tyranny with phrases such as, The Cuban government limits contact between citizens and tourists in an effort to protect you from prostitutes, and thieves. The snide asides, like Watch out for anyone approaching you with hands in their pockets. Who knows where those hands have been! Oh, yes the quaint locals with dirty hands. Who worships at the feet of the pig? Jesse Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, etc, etc. It makes me sick.

Today is flashback day for me guys. I've been reading all of this, and reliving a bunch of this stuff in my mind....

Excellent post. Those who enable and defend Castro are as evil as he is.

What a haunting photo!

Speaking of pastors for peace, has anyone checked out their puking web page lately?

http://www.ifconews.org/
or this?
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/pastors.html