January 04, 2006
Gracias Boston Globe
Finally some of the members of the fidel castro adulating MSM are starting to tell the truth about the tyrant and his despotic rule over Cuba for the past 47 years.
From the Boston Globe by Jeff Jacoby:
9,240 victims, and countingTHE LONGEST-RULING despot in the world is Fidel Castro, who seized power in Cuba 47 years ago this week. Like most dictators, Castro is a brazen liar, especially about his own regime. This, for example, is what he told an international conference in Havana in April 2001:
''There have never been death squads in our country, nor a single missing person, nor a single political assassination, nor a single victim of torture. . . . You may travel around the country, ask the people, look for a single piece of evidence, try to find a single case where the Revolutionary government has ordered or tolerated such an action. And if you find them, then I will never speak in public again."
One would have to be willfully blind -- a useful idiot, in Lenin's phrase -- to believe such a reeking falsehood. But when it comes to Castro, useful idiots have never been in short supply. From Norman Mailer to Jean-Paul Sartre, from Jesse Jackson to Ted Turner, a long line of admirers has swooned over the bearded tyrant, lavishly praising his wisdom and charm -- and never showing the slightest interest in his real record: cruelty, repression, and a death toll in the tens of thousands.
But Castro's mocking challenge -- ''try to find a single case" -- is not going unanswered. The Cuba Archive project (www.CubaArchive.org) is working to document the cost, in human life, of more than five decades of Cuban dictatorship. The New Jersey-based archive's tiny staff has set itself the monumental task of identifying every man, woman, and child killed by Cuba's rulers since March 10, 1952, the day Batista ousted the island's last democratically elected president. Meticulously, impartially, the archive's researchers are assembling the evidence that Castro claims doesn't exist -- victim by victim, one death at a time.
It is heartbreaking work. The revolution's victims have died in front of firing squads and been beaten to death by government goons; they have been sunk while at sea and shot down while flying; they have been killed for resisting communism at home and killed when sent to fight for communism abroad. In the hands of Castro's jailers, some have been driven to suicide; many more have disappeared.
The 9,240 count is just the beginning. We all know this number will reach the tens of thousands if not break into six figures. It's been 47 years of brutality after all.
If you havent visited the Cuba Archives, I suggest you do so and lend them your support. They are taking on a very painful and monumental task, digging through the lies of the castro regime in search of the truth. From their About Us page:
A profound lack of understanding of the huge cost in lives of the Cuban Revolution has contributed to pervasive ignorance of the brutal nature of the Castro regime. The names and faces of many victims remain unknown, their stories untold. Telling their stories may move people and nations to demand the end of oppression. More enduringly, learning of the human cost of these tragic events can move people to forsake violence as a means to forge their history.Uncovering and telling the truth will honor the memory of those who've paid with their lives, helping find meaning to their sacrifice. It is a precious gift to present and future generations that deserve to live in peace.
Hat tip: Dick T.
Posted by Val Prieto at January 4, 2006 09:14 AM
Comments
I've seen numbers much higher than 9,000 - such as 12,00-18,000.
Anyone else?
Posted by: Scott at January 4, 2006 10:37 AM
Thank you Boston Globe, one voice at a time, the truth will prevail. The toll is staggering, I've read numbers reaching over a hundred thousand and my guess it will turn out to be much higher. The so-called useful idiots who turn a blind eye to this horror are dancing on graves. I hope God is watching.
Posted by: ziva at January 4, 2006 11:02 AM
Here's a link to an interview with the wonderful Humberto Fontova discussing the human toll of castro's regime.
Posted by: ziva at January 4, 2006 11:09 AM
I didn't know about the project. I will forward a link to all my email contacts that may be interested in helping.
Posted by: nurian at January 4, 2006 11:23 AM
"According to Cuban-American scholar and researcher Armando Lago, who I cite often in my book, the death toll from Castro's Revolution stands at around 110,000." --H. Fontova
(http://www.livejournal.com/~qbanqta/109886.html?mode=reply)
Posted by: j.scott barnard at January 4, 2006 12:29 PM
Sorry - I should have been more specific. I was referring to firing squad deaths - I've read 12,000 and as high as 18,000.
Posted by: Scott at January 4, 2006 01:37 PM
I'm just ecstatic someone is picking this up an publishing it. Like Nurian I didn't know about the project either, so I will include them in my links.
Thank you Boston Globe, and thank the people of Cuba Archives for what has to be a depressing task
Posted by: La Ventanita at January 4, 2006 02:15 PM
9,000.
3 times the number Pinochet "disappeared".
Yet watch the Castro apologists go apoplectic over Pinochet.
Posted by: h0mi at January 4, 2006 02:23 PM
Jeff Jacoby is (I think) the only or one of the only conservative columnists on the Globe, a New York Times property. I guess miracles do happen!
Posted by: George L. Moneo at January 4, 2006 02:23 PM
You can read Jeff's columns often at townhall.com.
Posted by: Scott at January 4, 2006 02:55 PM
*Applause*
Posted by: Robert at January 4, 2006 03:17 PM
60,000-70,000 have died at sea escaping from the socialist paradise, but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet, right? After all America has killed 100 million indigenous Amerindians, 300 thousand mayans 2 million indonesians 70 million chinese b/c the CIA invented the AIDS virus so that's a billion Africans over 70 years, and then don't forget corporate globalization, McDonald's alone has killed 10 million people b/c their hamburgers are genetically modified by Henry Kissinger to contain anti-black and anti-Palestinian bacterium, etc.
(j/k)
Posted by: Dax at January 4, 2006 05:40 PM
When will this bearded scumbag find himself in the dock? When? And why isn't he there right now instead of in his f'ing palaces?
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at January 4, 2006 07:02 PM
Dax you know what? Your hateful insulting self has less value than a piece of the toilet paper any Cuban wipes their ass with, and your ignorant, predictable comment is not worthy of an intelligent response.
Posted by: ziva at January 4, 2006 10:24 PM
I don't know Dax's history as a commentor, so I could be way off here, but I think he was poking fun at crazy liberals--you know, the ones who refuse to criticize any other country that commits atrocities simply because our country has done some bad things too.
Posted by: Vida at January 4, 2006 10:45 PM
Sheesh, did you read the thing at the end about McDonald's? Also the (j/k) means "joking". Sorry if I insulted anyone by implying that Henry Kissinger and a fast food chain are poisoning Africans...I didn't think anyone would take that seriously.
Posted by: Dax at January 4, 2006 11:26 PM
In fact, by aiding violent regimes in Africa, Castro could be held culpable for well over one million deaths in the past 50 years. This is infinitely higher than anything "the Great Satan" could be blamed for.
Posted by: Dax at January 4, 2006 11:29 PM
Dax-Sorry, I didn't see the j/k and I was in a very anti-troll mood. Forgive my blast.
Posted by: ziva at January 5, 2006 11:31 AM
No problem.
Posted by: Dax at January 5, 2006 03:12 PM
"Jeff Jacoby is (I think) the only or one of the only conservative columnists on the Globe..."
Yes, that's correct. Otherwise, the Glob (misspelling intentional) generally manages to make the New York Times look like a paragon of even-handed, middle-of-the-road reasonableness and objectivity. I do love my hometown, but sometimes it drives me nuts.
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