People will believe anything. But first you have to put it on TV. You just watch.

To evaluate the successes and failures of the Castro regime, a good starting point is 1953. Charged with leading an attack against a military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, Castro rose in his own defense to deliver what was reported to have been a four-hour speech in which he detailed crimes committed under the rule of then-President Fulgencio Batista -- and to describe a list of actions the revolutionary government would take once Batista was overthrown.
In the speech and later revolutionary writings, Castro called for an impartial justice system, free schooling, full employment and fair wages for all Cubans, access to subsidized health care and reinstatement of Cuba's 1940 constitution, which Batista had suspended.
These principles, Castro said, were the guiding lights of revolution.
And in the light of those successes, he promised, " La historia me absolverá ," -- "History will absolve me."

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While visiting Florida in '93, found & read Dr. Mario Lazo's "Dagger in the Heart".

Had long understood cagasstro to be what he is, ever since first seeing him on TV newsreels when I was a kid, shaking his fist while barking incoherent hate-filled tirades.

My friends and I saw hims as crazy, mean, and dangerous, as the nuts usually are. We wondered why TV gave him so much coverage. Now we know.

For decades, our country's Rolls Royce revolutionaries trysted platonically with communism. A few mild gropings, some polite words spoken in denunciation of evil white racist 'capitalists', then back to the pursuit of riches.

But this time they did it. They threw a hissy fit and voted in a foreigner who considers our Constitution 'defective', to be repaired by his peculiar talents.

Uh huh. Time now for all the steam heat socialists, those who dabble in marxism from their comfy chair, to hop in the back seat of this Hegelian Jalopy and get a real good dose of that whichCubans have endured for half a century - courtesy of roosevelt's commie-stuffed state department and of course, that old Hegelian Hag, the NY Slimes.

cagasstro does what he does because that's what dicators generally do. But how do his licskspittle apologists in the US media, campuses, and other fever swamps of socialism rationalize their reflexive excuse-making on behalf of murderous tyrants?

What does that say about them?

Wouldn't it be lovely if, the next time Oliver Stone, any of the Kennedys - dead or alive - or some collection of BigBiz greaszeballs visit Cuba to swap spit in the shower with cagasstro, his goons barred their departure from the workers' paradise?

The howls would rise to the heavens, wouldn't they? One can always dream....

Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasoviet Key, Florida
02 January, 2009

Kudos Paul! Love your comments! By the way, there have been cases of celebrities who have been attacked by the regime. In 1965, the poet laureate of the Beat Generation and quasi-Marxist, admirer of Fidel Castro, Allen Ginsberg, went to Cuba and thinking that he could rant his mouth off in Cuba as he always did in the evil, imperialist USA, he said that "Che was cute." Che who was a sick and pathological homophobe didn't like that one bit! Of course, Ginsberg was promptly expelled from the Cuba [no doubt a shock to him, since he thought that Cuba was a bastion of egalitarianism and tolerance under the shadow of the satanic USA].