May 25, 2006

Another act of repudiation

Funny how not a single MSM reporter or journalist or filmmaker has ever had the wherewithal to report on the numerous actos de repudio that are staged daily in the island prison. Via Cubanet:

Mob excoriates independent journalist

HAVANA, Cuba - May 22 (Ernesto Roque Cintero, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - A mob congregated in front of independent journalist José Antonio Fornaris' home May 18 and staged an "act of repudiation" against him.

The government maintains these mobs are spontaneous manifestations of the popular will and calls the events "acts of revolutionary affirmation." Dissidents have long claimed that the mobs respond to and are organized by the government's security apparatus. In fact, the mob that congregated in front of Fornaris' home was backed up by a car loaded with loudspeakers, not the sort of thing the average Cuban has at his ready disposal.

The crowd of about 70 strong chanted hurrahs to the revolution, and called Fornaris a mercenary, and a salaried lackey of the empire, referring to the U.S.

Fornaris called the whole thing "terrorism sponsored by the State."

Posted by Val Prieto at May 25, 2006 07:30 AM



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Val:
Un huh. Riiiiight! Sponatenous demonstration of affirmation in a totalitarian police state?! Què no ens prenguen el pèl i deixar-nos per estupids as my parents would say (In Spanish: que no nos tomen el pelo dejarnos por estupidos)

I bet that they from the comités right? They'll have so much to answer for in the post castro era
xavier

Posted by: xavier [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 25, 2006 09:21 AM

Does this remind anyone else of Hitler's Brown Shirts?

Posted by: Mariana [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 25, 2006 11:19 AM

Marina:
Nope more omnious: the red guards from the Chinese cultural revolution.
xavier

Posted by: xavier [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 25, 2006 07:37 PM

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