Fariñas ends hunger strike

Guillermos Fariñas Hernandez has ended his hunger strike.

Details at Wall Street Cafe and from Uncommon Sense:

Some may dismiss Fariñas as merely someone who wanted the right to surf the Internet, a right not equal to his sacrifice and which he failed to attain. But his protest was really demanding something much more for himself, and for Cuba.

Freedom.

To be free, man must have the right to free expression, and in the modern age, that means the right to use the Internet to gather and distribute information.

Castro understands that, which is why unregulated use of the Internet by Cubans in Cuba is against the law.

With his sacrifice, Fariñas added to the evidence that, despite the dictator's bluster, Cuba and Cubans are not free.

The tyrant has no clothes.

Maybe that is why most of the MSM ignored the Fariñas. Everyone already knows that Cuba under Castro is a very bad place.

Yeah, and Al-Jazeera is hiring Lucia Newman because she is such an objective journalist.

The truth is, the MSM ignored Fariñas — one of their own — because they don't give a damn about Cuba, especially the Cubans who have suffered under almost 50 years of castroism. As a journalist in the MSM, I am angry and disappointed, but not surprised.

The MSM may have missed the story, but that does not diminish the magnitude of what Fariñas accomplished.

He stood up to Castro. Yes, he backed down before he got what he was demanding, but not before exposing for a new audience the cruelty of the Castro regime.

He also demonstrated a courage that if emulated, will eventually bring down the dictatorship and make Cuba, and Cubans, free.

Fariñas' courage and his love for Cuba are unquestioned.

He is a hero, and a patriot.

Indeed.

Posted by Val Prieto at March 30, 2006 07:55 AM

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