When I wrote this entry, rumors were circulating about the possible death of Fidel Castro. Unfortunately, the rumors proved to be untrue and the old, Communist bastard is still alive. It's unfortunate that when he does go to that great gulag down below, he won't be taking his legions of Tranzi apologists with him. – Mike LaRoche
We can only hope that the rumors of Fidel Castro's death being bandied about Matt Drudge's website and those of many Cuban-American bloggers are true. In modern times, few men have brought as much suffering to their own people as Castro – despite the ubiquitous (and bogus) stories of Cuba's "superior" health care and educational systems.
Of the many weblogs covering the rumors of Castro's death, none are written better than Valentin Prieto's Babalu Blog. As of Saturday morning, Prieto was sill maintaining that Castro is indeed dead. Another blogger on Babalu named Mora speculated that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez might have let the cat out of the bag by way of a recent public statement.
Regrettably, dictators like Castro and Chavez (and even genocidal maniacs like Stalin and Hitler) will always have their sympathizers and apologists. One such apologist happens to be a contestant on the upcoming and controversial CBS reality show Kid Nation. Prepare to be disgusted:
Babalu co-blogger George Moneo rightly wonders what sort of a horrible home life the kid must have gone through to have derived such a staggeringly ill-informed opinion. As far as I'm concerned, that's no different than raising a child as a member of the Aryan Nation.
The degree to which some fellow-travelers, or "anti-anti-communists" as they like to style themselves, go to defend such a rancid, discredited ideology and the tyrants who impose it on their own people is truly astounding. Of course, when it came to doing Castro's bidding, no one went above and beyond the call of duty more than President Bill Clinton and his corrupt Attorney General, Janet Reno. Nothing better illustrated their lack of commitment to civil liberties than the photo below, taken when armed federal officers stormed the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez to remove his nephew Elian and send him back to Cuba. This was done despite the fact that Elian's mother had died in an attempt to reach American shores so that her son could grow up with the freedom she had been denied.
Back in the early '90s when I was still in high school, a group of com-symp do-gooders called "Let Cuba Live!" came down to Laredo to make a big show of how they were going to ferry supplies across the border into Mexico and then over to Cuba to supposedly bring much-needed aid to Cuba's people. Their real intent, of course, was to mock the American embargo of Castro's island prison. On one summer day, a jalopy full of these losers pulled to the curb on a street in downtown Laredo where a friend of mine happened to be standing. My friend's name was Enrique, and unbeknownst to the hippies, his father was a Cuban exile. They asked Enrique how to get to the nearest bridge to Mexico. Enrique replied: "Find your own way, you damn communist!"
¡Por Cuba Libre!
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