"Sokath, his eyes open."
Posted on 12/15/2015 7:20:53 PM PST by grundle
Anthony Bryant was once so enamored with Fidel Castro’s revolution that he felt compelled to hijack his way to Cuba.
Upon touching down at José Martà International Airport shortly before dawn, Bryant was certain that he was about to enter what he had dubbed "paradise."
"Cuba was creating a true democracy - a place where everyone was equal, where violence against blacks, injustice, and racism were things of the past," Bryant would later recall thinking as he was whisked away by soldiers, whom he expected to escort him to a comfortable hotel. "I had come to Cuba to feel freedom at least once."
But the hijackers quickly discovered that they were unwelcome guests... After being strip-searched and interrogated by the secret police, the bulk of American hijackers were sent to live in a squalid dormitory in south Havana. Known to Cubans as Casa de Transitos and to the Americans as "Hijackers House," the building was only marginally better than a prison: The residents were bullied by armed guards and forced to subsist on maggot-infested bread.
Bryant was sentenced to spend 12 years in a tropical gulag. During his nightmarish incarceration, he was repeatedly tortured with bayonets and forced to witness the executions of political dissidents. By the time he returned to the U.S. in 1980, his politics had shifted far to the right. "Communism is humanity's vomit!" he exclaimed during his first bond hearing in Miami. "Wipe it out!" Bryant was eventually sentenced to probation and became a conservative talk-show host
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And I thought I learned lessons the hard way!!!
Idiot. Blacks are very much a caste group in Cuba...
"Sokath, his eyes open."
***Bryant was sentenced to spend 12 years in a tropical gulag.***
Like the old saying goes...”He went to de river and he got baptized!”
Hard way to get your eyes opened.
Many liberals still think that Cuba is a socialist paradise.
What a shame they can’t all experience it first hand.
HA ha!!!
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
L
What about the escaped NJ cop killer?
Too bad a pill cannot be prescribed to fix stupid.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
You can’t fix stupid.
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we should permanent deport Bernie Sanders to Cuba
Can’t believe this is from Yahoo. They normally are true believers.
Another liberal idiot mugged by reality.
Bfl
The title of Bryant’s book should have been “Hijackass”!
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife
He got hurted real good.
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