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.
The resting place of evil.
The tomb
of
Che Guevara, Santa Clara, Cuba.
From here.
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.
Castro has never won an election in his life.
Unlike the US President,
who won free elections,
he holds power entirely at gunpoint.
Unlike the US President,
he has never faced the people in an election.
The unfeeling, malevolent clown
Michael Moore
wrote a
sick letter to Elian Gonzalez,
laughing at the fact that his mother died trying to reach freedom,
like millions of others who have fled communism
over the past century:
"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.",
said the obscenely wealthy
multi-millionaire.
See
John Derbyshire
on Moore.
Actually, I'm not pro-sanctions myself.
I believe in invading and deposing dictators,
not making their people suffer
while the dictator stays in power.
"I know your tactics! You press people are injecting venom into your articles
to damage the revolution.
You're either with us or against us.
We're not going to allow all the press foolishness that Batista allowed.
I can have you executed this very night. How about that!"
- Che Guevara to a journalist he arrested, 1959.
Quoted in [Fontova, 2007].
The Cult of Che:
Don't applaud The Motorcycle Diaries
by Paul Berman,
on the movie
The Motorcycle Diaries,
which glorifies Che Guevara.
"Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom.
He helped establish an unjust social system in Cuba and has been erected into a symbol of social justice.
He stood for the ancient rigidities of Latin-American thought, in a Marxist-Leninist version,
and he has been celebrated as a free-thinker and a rebel."
This book shows how, far from being an individuality-loving rebel,
Che Guevara was an unelected authoritarian tyrant
who supported (and implemented) capital punishment,
burned books,
censored cinema,
opposed free elections,
massively increased poverty,
persecuted gays,
and made rock and roll illegal.
An open admirer of Stalin, he signed his name "Stalin II".
He supported the Soviet imperialist crushing of the
1956 Hungarian Revolution.
He was against individualism.
He often stated that individualism should be stamped out, that young people should unquestioningly obey the state and its leaders.
The Iranians are looking for ties with the global anti-American left,
hoping to bring some of them under
Islamist leadership.
Some of the left are willing to make this
deal with the devil,
despite the fact that the Islamists despise them
and will kill them first.
One speaker
called on all anti-American forces to accept the leadership of Iran.
Another speaker claimed Guevara was
"a truly religious man who believed in God and hated communism and the Soviet Union.
Today, communism has been consigned to the garbage can of history as foreseen by Imam Khomeini.
Thus progressists everywhere must accept the leadership of our religious, pro-justice movement.
...
The Soviet Union is gone. The leadership of the downtrodden has passed to our Islamic Republic. Those who wish to destroy America must understand the reality and not be clever with words."
(I love the way he describes the left.)
Guevara's daughter, forced to wear the hijab,
horrifies them
by disputing this claim about Guevara:
"My father never mentioned God. He never met God."
Suddenly she finds herself escorted from the hall,
losing her VIP status, and having to leave Iran in a hurry.
Hilarious stuff.
The movie Che
Unbelievably, movie director Steven Soderbergh has made no less than two puff pieces
about Che Guevara,
neither of which
mention his crimes,
nor even the kind of country Cuba became because of him.
Naive young people will see these films and think they are truth
rather than incurious propaganda.
Review:
"must be the most fevered piece of Communist propaganda since Sergei Eisenstein's days, makes Ernesto Guevera look like Florence Nightingale + Abraham Lincoln times Jesus Christ.
...
There are more scenes about agrarian land reform (many) than there are about
the taking of Havana
by the Communists (zero) or about what Communism actually did in practice as opposed to theory (zero). An alien watching this film could be forgiven for thinking that Communism was this neat new ideology about lifting up the underclass that was never fully put into practice because of corrupt dictators."
Benicio del Toro,
who plays Che,
claims that Che only executed people after due process
(as if a Stalinist like Che believed in such a bourgeois concept).
Del Toro absurdly claims that:
"They didn't do it blindly; they had trials.
They found them guilty, and they executed them - that's capital punishment."
This is, of course, entirely false.
Cuban dissident hero
Armando Valladares,
who spent 22 years in Che and Castro's gulag,
says witheringly:
"Benicio del Toro is just one of the many accomplices of the Cuban tyranny. All the murderers of people have had accomplices and people who made excuses for them. Stalin had them, Hitler had them, Pinochet had them, all the dictators have had apologists for them. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro also had them."
Poster says:
"During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, Che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men, women, and children.
All individuals used in this photo montage were murdered by Che and the Cuban regime"
From Young America's Foundation
(see here).
"These youths walk around with their transistor radios listening to imperialist music!"
[i.e. Rock and roll]
"They corrupt the morals of young girls - and destroy posters of Che!
What do they think?
That this is a bourgeois liberal regime?
NO! There's nothing liberal in us!
We are collectivists!
We are communists!
There will be no Prague Spring here!"
- Cuban dictator Castro attacking Cuban dissidents and hippies in 1968.
Quoted in [Fontova, 2007].
Young Cuban rebels of course hated his vicious dead sidekick Che Guevara.
Why Havana Had to Die
by Theodore Dalrymple.
- "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."
Scepticism about Cuba's health and education systems,
which are supposed to be good,
according to the lying communist dictatorship.
Also here
and here.
Good quote by David Carr:
"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?"
The left's support for tyranny in Cuba
Go Live There, Then
- Tim Blair on leftist idiots' support for Cuba.
He is responding to the idiot British Labour MP Brian Wilson.
Hope at last for Cuba:
An ill Castro cedes power to his brother
Raul Castro, July 2006.
A prelude: Miami streets burst with spontaneous joy,
Aug 1, 2006.
"It's time for him to pay for all the suffering he has caused,
not only to Cuban people but the whole world.""Cuba is free. Raul Castro
can't stop us, nobody can."
Cuban exiles dance in the streets
with the news of Castro's illness.
Cuba will be free soon.
The US
(see statement)
says freedom is coming soon:
"The United States is actively monitoring the situation in Cuba
following the announcement of a transfer of power.
At this time of uncertainty in Cuba, one thing is clear:
The United States is absolutely committed to supporting the Cuban people's aspirations
for democracy and freedom.
We have repeatedly said that the Cuban people deserve to live in freedom.
...
We will support you in your effort to build a transitional government in Cuba committed to democracy,
and we will take note of those, in the current Cuban regime, who obstruct your desire for a free Cuba.
In the event of a transition in the Cuban government,
we stand ready to provide humanitarian assistance as needed to help the Cuban people.
It has long been the hope of the United States to have
a free, independent, and democratic Cuba as a close friend and neighbor."
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.
See terms of use.
"If the [nuclear] missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of the United States,
including New York.
We must never establish peaceful coexistence.
We must walk the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims!"
-
Che Guevara, 1962,
on the Cuban missile crisis.
He wanted the Soviets to launch their nuclear missiles
at U.S. cities.
"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).
This poster by the (ironically) left-wing press freedom group
Reporters Sans Frontieres
is
banned in France.
This website, however, is
in the United States.
French law does not apply.
And American law protects political satire.
The poster says:
"Welcome to Cuba: The biggest prison in the world for journalists".
Search for more copies
here
and here
and here
and here.
Back in Cuba,
the brainwashed
14 year old Elian Gonzalez has become a communist, June 2008. How sad.
