Party Pooper Time

50 years ago this week my father and grandfather walked over to the church on the corner where the (Spanish) priest was clanging the bells celebrating Cuba's "liberation from tyranny blah, blah, blah, blah....etc. etc."

"Father, you're making a big mistake" they told him. "You'll regret this, mark our words."

Two years later that priest was in a boat Spain-bound, to escape a possible firing squad.

Note that all the MSM stories on Cuba this week, when they DO quote Cuban-exiles, these always cover their asses by caveating: "Oh sure, we supported Castro at first, we were certain that freedom and democracy and prosperity and a chicken-in-every-pot, and forty-acres-and- a-mule, and Shangri-La and the Land of Oz , blah, blah, blah...etc. etc. would soon bless Cuba..."

Sorry to spoil the party, but for this hopeless recalcitrant that gives the impression that most Cubans were blithering idiots.

And that was NOT the case. Problem is, most Cubans of over 40 years of age of that time have passed from the scene, and generally speaking, these were the ones who saw through the Castroite/Media hoopla. In 1959 the Cuban-American interviewees in these MSM articles were mostly pampered teen-agers, college students, etc.--which is to say: mostly morons (in a political sense, see who mostly voted for Obama for proof.)

Little known but in 1960 the West German Counsel in Cuba performed and island-wide survey (of sorts) and found that, at most, 1/3 of Cubans supported Castro--and this was quite early. "He who robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul," as they say. Well this "survey" (admittedly unscientific, but no less so than all the assertions that Castro had "overwhelming Cuban support" at the time..blah...blah) was at a time when you'd have thunk the Pauls greatly outnumbered the Peters? But even then, most Cubans were wary of the Stalinist ruse.

You'll also note this trend in most "scholarly" books on Cuba. All their sources are former Fidelistas, los arrepentidos the "Fidelistas sin Fidel crowd," (which is not the same as those who opposed Batista) For a Cuban-exile to be taken seriously by "scholars" reporters, documentarians and such he must first prove that he's either a fool or a scoundrel. Prove both and you're in like flint. To have swallowed Castro's initial ruse about his "democratic' and "humanist" aspirations works nicely. To have been a willing accomplice in his mass butchery and larceny for many years works even better.

Much of Winston Churchill's historic fame issues from his clairvoyance--he had Hitler's number from day one. Many Cubans (including Anti-Batista people like Guillermo Belt, Rubio Padilla, Marquez-Sterling and others) had Castro's number in 58-59. The worldwide Media/Academia axis shunned these Cubans like lepers.

Posted by Humberto at January 2, 2009 08:42 AM

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Posted by: asombra at January 2, 2009 12:08 PM