The unelected communist dictatorship of Cuba
runs
- like North Korea
and the Soviet bloc behind the Berlin Wall
- a prison state whose citizens are forbidden
to leave the country.
The communist dictatorship
denies free speech,
political opposition, and
freedom of religion.
It has wrecked Cuba's economy,
and has killed 70,000 people so far,
by executions, camps,
and the deaths of refugees (boat people) trying to escape.
Communism has been a failure and it is time for Cuba to abandon it
and adopt
democracy, free speech,
free enterprise
and freedom of religion.
Castro never won an election in his life.
Unlike the US President,
who wins free elections,
Castro held power entirely at gunpoint.
Unlike the US President,
he never faced the people in an election.
How Castro's revolution failed Cuba:
The black line shows the stagnation of the GDP per capita of Cuba
since the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
GDP per capita was
(1990 $) 2,067 in 1959,
and
(1990 $) 1,926 in 1995.
That is,
Cuba was even poorer in 1995 than it was in 1959.
The blue line shows the growth of the world's average GDP per capita over that time
(not even the best countries in the world, just the whole world).
Stats from Angus Maddison.
Why Havana Had to Die
by Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2002.
- "Fidel Castro is no
eighteenth-century English gentleman, and Havana is not his private estate
....
The ruins of Havana that he has brought into being are, in fact, the habitation of over 1
million people, whose collective will, these ruins attest, is not equal in power to the will of one man."
Fidel Castro urged the Soviets to launch their nuclear missiles from Cuba at U.S. cities:
"if they manage to carry out an invasion of Cuba - a brutal act in violation of universal and moral law
- then that would be the moment to eliminate this danger forever, in an act of the most legitimate self-defense.
However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other."
But the Soviets refrained.
Cox and Forkum cartoon of 2003
on western idiots like Jimmy Carter,
who are surprised when Castro executes dissidents.
The Cuban Memorial,
a temporary memorial at Tamiami Park, Miami,
to the victims of the communist regime.
A permanent memorial is now to be built.
Photo by Alexander Barreto 2005.
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David Carr
is sceptical
about Cuba's health and education systems:
"Who, in their right minds, would want to risk being eaten by sharks
in order to get away from first-class health-care
and education?"
And here.
Go Live There, Then
- Tim Blair, August 29, 2003, on leftist idiots' support for Cuba.
He is responding to the credulous British Labour MP Brian Wilson.
Michael Moore
believes everything Cuba showed him for his propaganda film
Sicko in 2007.
Michael Moore
believes everything a
closed communist dictatorship
with no free press
says.
This clip on
20/20
adds the basic scepticism that
Sicko lacks
(and that the Cuban media lacks).
Moore has removed it from his website,
so here is a cached copy.
And try
search.
The unfeeling, malevolent clown
mocks the idea that Elian's mother
wanted to live in freedom:
"You are being told that your mother died trying to bring you to freedom.
I am so sorry to have to tell you, that's not true.
...
The truth is your mother and her boyfriend snatched you and put you on that death boat
because they simply wanted to make more money.
...
your mother placed you in a situation where you were certain to die on the open seas (as most of the rest did) and that is unconscionable. It was the ultimate form of child abuse".
It's not often that one gets to see
a smug, well-fed
multi-millionaire
make fun of a desperate poor person.
Still Useful, and Idiotic,
John Derbyshire, May 1, 2000,
on Michael Moore.
He points out that Moore is fool enough to believe
Cuban government statistics
on literacy and infant mortality.
Obama resumed US relations with Cuba in 2014,
even though it was still a communist dictatorship.
Raúl Castro was still President.
And, to add insult to injury, Fidel Castro was still alive.
Dumbass American President visits communist Cuba, Mar 2016, and tells them they are great.
From Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
On his March 2016 visit,
Obama thanks the dictatorship of Cuba for criticising the democracy of America.
"President Castro, I think, has pointed out that in his view making sure everybody's getting a decent education or health care,
has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.
I personally would not disagree with that.
...
I actually welcome President Castro commenting on some of the areas where he feels we're falling short
because I think we should not be immune or afraid of criticism or discussion".
What is wrong with Americans that they voted for this guy?
The Lord Mayor of Dublin,
Brendan Carr (Labour)
opened a
Book of Condolence
for Fidel Castro
at the Mansion House in Dublin.
Dermot Lacey
(Labour councillor)
supports the Book of Condolence:
"Good to hear @LordMayorDublin opening book of condolence for Fidel Castro.
Cuba is a better place for him
& Ireland has good relations with it."
Cuban exiles in Miami celebrate Castro's death, Nov 2016.
"Cuba Sí! Castro No!"
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Leftist Canadian PM Justin Trudeau issued a dreadful
fawning statement
at the death of the dictator.
This was brilliantly mocked on Twitter under the tag:
#TrudeauEulogies
See full size.
Yes he is dead now.
Now he is dead, will Cuban communism end?
Will Cuba ever be free?
T-shirt from here.
Communism continues
Cuban "election", Mar 2018.
The Communist Party wins 100 percent of seats. As usual.
What a triumph of democracy!
"we must follow the road of liberation even though it may cost millions of atomic war victims."
- Che Guevara, 1962.
"The trial had taken place at the height of the Cuban [missile] crisis and under the atmosphere of the threat of
a third world war. Unquestionably my sympathies lay with Cuba. The rise of the first Socialist State
in the western hemisphere, the revolutionary means whereby Fidel Castro had seized power, the
rapid improvement in the living standards and conditions of the people within the first few years of
a socialist society, Castro and his people's unequivocal opposition to colonialism and their full
support for the liberation movements, had made a favourable and lasting impact throughout the
world. The ability of a new and small state to defend its interests and its independence, to repulse
repeated attempts by the mighty USA to destroy it, not only shows the popularity of Fidel Castro and
his government, but demonstrates in no uncertain terms the superiority of socialism over capitalism."
- Communist tosser Nelson Mandela
in the
original manuscript
of his book
Long Walk to Freedom (1995).
"So long as there is a single rock in all the world's oceans without socialism,
there will be boat people."
- Jean-Francois Revel
sums up Cuba
(and Vietnam,
and North Korea, East Berlin, and all the other socialist hellholes).
