[Zakeet]

The poor guy apparently lived his whole life as a liberal loon:

Mr. Brent considered himself a revolutionary to the end, though he had grown increasingly disenchanted with the Cuban revolution, telling a reporter that "people have discovered that not all Cubans are in agreement with the revolution, that they want some things the revolution taught them were bad, like Big Macs and Nikes."

[Graybeard58]

A wasted life.

[JennysCool]

Have Congressional Democrats announced when the memorial service will be held?

[peggybac]

Get ready for the new Eldridge Cleaver Day.

[Stoat]

His views don't sound so dissimilar from what you might hear on Airhead America or from numerous University 'professors' here.

Just because someone gets older doesn't automatically mean that they get wiser. There are all sorts of bitter old Leftists, Socialists and Commies who never, ever see the light and end up dying full of hate and bile.

Too bad they can't ALL go to Cuba.

[Dallas59]

Might have lived to 95 in the US.

[Rte66]

My gosh, I had some college friends on that plane. Hadn't thought of those skyjacking-to-Cuba days in a long, long time.

Seems like I knew someone on every flight it happened to that year - and it seemed to them (all college kids like I was) an adventure, or a lark. What we didn't know.

[Dallas59]

In his memoir, Mr. Brent wrote: "My actions in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 1968, were a direct result of my awareness that I was a black soldier at war in a white-dominated society where, in most cases, my people and I were denied our basic civil and human rights." Mr. Brent considered himself a revolutionary to the end, though he had grown increasingly disenchanted with the Cuban revolution, telling a reporter that "people have discovered that not all Cubans are in agreement with the revolution, that they want some things the revolution taught them were bad, like Big Macs and Nikes."

His own faith for a better world remained firm, though he had long ago given up the dream of returning to the United States. "I've been running all my life, fleeing one thing or another," he said. "I've been on a flight from depression, oppression, racism, injustice, inhumanity, cruelty. The flight is not over, but I'm not just running from it. I'm fighting it."

As for the hijacking, Mr. Brent was unrepentant. "That plane (a Boeing 707)," he once joked to his editor, "was the biggest thing I ever stole. And the Cubans made me give it back."

He deserved what he got.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Mr. Brent spent the next 22 months in prison, an experience he found far worse than the eight years of incarceration he had endured in San Quentin and Tehachapi for a variety of crimes, including armed robbery, Wasserman said. When asked by a New York Times reporter in 1996 to compare the two prison systems, Mr. Brent said that in Cuba, "They don't allow you to do anything but hard time."

No $h!t, $herlock. Welcome to a Commie country. Hope you enjoyed your stay!

[knarf]

bronchial pneumonia

I'm no doctor, but this doesn't sound like much more than what some anti-biotics, sanitation and a healthful diet would't cure in a relatively short time.

But then, this is Castro's paradise .. no medicine, nothing sanitary and little food.

Thanx for playing, Bill.

[Bonaparte]

Ah, gone are the days of glitzy cocktail parties thrown by white liberals such as Leonard Bernstein for Brent and his fellow thugs, pimps, thieves, killers and pushers. Nope, no free market products like Nikes and Big Macs awaited George in his sunny workers' paradise -- just prison, menial labor and a lifetime of continued self-delusion, self-righteousness and self-pity.

[Hexenhammer]

Meh. Good riddance.

[csvset]

Bwahaha. Worked like a field hand for the Commie man. Too bad sucker, you were bamboozled.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for this misguided soul.

[JCEccles]

He arrived in Havana expecting to be hailed as a hero, but was surprised to be promptly taken into custody by Cuban authorities, Wasserman said.

The blue dog Dim'crats who were just slapped silly by Pelosi and Hoyer after showing up in triumph in the Pelosi People's Republic of Wash DC know just how he felt.

[Sloth]

"He chose... poorly."

[Alouette]

laboring in a soap factory.

I don't even want to think about what Cuban soap is made of.