For the Golly Gushers of Fidel Castro

“Ah, Fidel” gushed DebO, April 10, in The Burd Report, doing her best impression of a teenie bopper in the presence of rock royalty, except in this case, the gush is for a family dictatorshit: the Castro Brothers.

DebO Gush 1: “the old boy still has what it takes”

If the old boy ever had what it took, he would have held elections and won his mandate from the Cuban people at any time over the past half century.

If the old boy had what it took, he would have held elections instead of installing his brother, Raul, to keep power all in the family.

Hereditary leadership. Where have we seen that before? Oh yes, the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea and the Syrian Arab Republic come to mind. Hereditary leadership is so 18^th century don’t ya know?

DebO Gush 2&3: “no signs of retreat from his convictions” … “an inspiration for stubborn socialists everywhere.”

So that explains why the moderators of the Burd Report declare that they ain’t gonna change their progressiveness. The world changes, history rivers onward  and those big immovable stubborn boulders just stay put, doing nothing except be themselves. Nope, not gonna change. Same with the Castro brotherhood, keeping those Plymouths, Fords, Chevies, and letting the people relive the fifties day after miserable day for over two generations. The Cuban people deserve a government of their own choosing.

DebO Gush 4&5: “Castro’s insights are fascinating” …“his mind is as sharp as ever when it comes to deciphering the meaning behind the world’s politics.”

Father Fidel was renown to deliver hours-long speeches marinated in progressive socialist ideology while tens of thousands of ‘adoring’ Cubans gave up a holiday to sit under the hot Caribbean sun on a concrete plaza fascinated by the many “insights” coming from Father Fidel, minute after minute, hour after hour, the insights gushing forth from his hairy cigar-chompin’ mouth. Gush. Gush.

DebO Gush 6&7: “Fidel Castro is one powerhouse of a leader, and deserving of the respect of most of the Cuban people” … “It is indeed a huge accomplishment that Cuba, and the Cubans, have stood strong in spite of decades of attempted genocide on the part of the USA.”

What an incredibly hateful comment. The USA made no attempt whatsoever to commit genocide against Cuba. What the USA did do is act like a petulant dangerous child, and sent its Keystone CIA on numerous failed attempts to assassinate Castro, but that is NOT genocide as DebO maliciously asserts. Assassinating a political leader is not even close to the definition of genocide.

USAmerican policy has served no purpose other than to provide the Castro family with a lazy and easy excuse for the half-century of poverty their citizens must endure just to satisfy the progressives’ enduring anti-Americanism. The Cuban people are pawns, political pawns of both the right and the left.

The embargo. It applies to the USA, and no one else. Cuba was free to trade with almost all other countries of the world. But the “powerhouse of a leader” chose to hook the wagon of the Cuban people to the mule of the great Soviet people. Besides sugar and cigars, the Castro brothers traded Cubans.

Tens of thousands of conscripted Cuban troops were dispatched in support of Soviet-supported wars in Africa, particularly the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola  and for a very special ally, Mengistu Haile Mariam of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Mengistu, was renown for a lavish anniversary party of international progressives while the rest of the country starved to death. Shortly thereafter Mengistu  fled to Zimbabwe and shacked up with that other world renown progressive buddy and Castro Brotherhood alley, Robert Mugabe, who also led his people into penury and starvation. Vultures of a feather.

So we have DebO gushing that Castro is “deserving of the respect of most of the Cuban people”  Tragically, the Cuban people have never been told how many of their own died in these African wars at the beck and call of the USSR.

The Cuban people demonstrated their respect for Castro by storming the Peruvian embassy April 6, 1980; they were 10,000 strong. This was followed by the Mariel event, in which a quarter million people departed Cuba in a two month period.

Maleconzo, Havana’s seaside avenue, saw an uprising Aug5/94, involving thousands of Cubans  chanting “libertad.” It was brutally suppressed by the thugs and goons of the Castro brotherhoodlum.

In 1998, the “powerhouse of a leader” received the Muammar Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. What a proud moment that must have been for the world’s unchanging progressives.

Amnesty International reported in 2009, “Freedom of expression remained limited, with all mass media outlets remaining under state control. Journalists working for independent and alternative news agencies continued to face harassment and intimidation in the form of short-term detention and monitoring by security officers. Opposition political groups and many civil and professional associations continued to be barred from gaining legal status. In December, more than 30 people were briefly detained by the Cuban authorities, preventing them from celebrating International Human Rights Day in Havana. At the end of the year, 58 prisoners of conscience continued to be held solely for the expression of their political views. In February, four prisoners of conscience were released on health grounds, but were ordered to leave the country.”

Human Rights Watch reported, “Raul Castro’s government has increasingly relied on a “dangerousness” (estado peligroso) provision of the criminal code that allows the state to imprison individuals before they have committed a crime, on the suspicion that they might commit an offense in the future. Scores of individuals have been sentenced to between one and four years for “dangerous” activities including handing out copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, staging peaceful marches, writing critical news articles, and trying to organize independent unions.”

Progressives like to wave the health care banner as a redeeming factor for the half century of family dictatorshit. Health care is dismal for Cubans. There are very good hospitals for foreigners and the elite beholden to the Castro Brotherhood.

Katherine Hirschfeld, produced an astute analysis of the Cuban Health Care System. The infant mortality rate in Cuba is one of the best in the world. It is a very important statistic to the dictatorshit. How is it maintained? Any foetus that indicates a risk to survival stats is forcibly aborted. There are censorshit laws that have serious consequences to anyone in the health industry who openly questions the health care system.

The general decrepitmess of health care for average Cubans can be easily witnessed by googling “Cuban hospitals” in the photo search engine. When I see these images, I am reminded of the hospitals I visited in socialist Poland, socialist Hungary and socialist Bulgaria. Progressives had to be blind to the socialist fraud around them. They had to believe their own propaganda.

If you re-read the article written by DebO and the comments from fellow progs, their issue is not the welfare of Cubans, but the stick-it-to-the-yanquis mantra. How pathetic is that! And for generations now, the Cuban people have paid dearly for such policy.

“Ah Fidel!” gushed DebO.