Posted on 07/06/2013 3:22:42 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Rafael Cruz, the father of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, invigorated the crowd during tonight’s FreedomWorks Free the People event. Describing his own personal journey escaping Cuba and working hard to build a life for himself in the U.S., the elder Cruz noted comparisons that he believes exist between Fidel Castro’s governance and President Barack Obama’s executive actions. Upon rising to power, he said that Castro, like Obama, spoke about hope and change. While the message sounded good at the time, it didn’t take long for socialism to take root in his home country. And he paid the price.
” Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, [1] where his parents, Eleanor Darragh and Rafael Cruz, were working in the oil business. [9][10] His father was a Cuban immigrant to the United States during the Cuban Revolution. [11] His mother was born and raised in Delaware, in a family of Irish and Italian descent. [10][12] Cruz’s parents, who had both attended college in Texas, returned there when Cruz was about four years old. [11]”
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
So what is it that you know that we don’t?
RINOS like McCain, Graham, Toomey, Alexander, Corker, Murkowski, and Rubio are the ones who are killing us. The Communists are clear about what their agenda is—but the go-along, traitorous RINOS are the ones who subvert our conservative principles.
Bless Ted Cruz and his dad.
Have to disagree. Castro wasn't as bad or as dangerous.
Castro didn’t fall from the sky and take power the same day. The revolution and attacks began years before. Many chose to flee the strife which, by definition, means they are refugees even if they didn’t file as refugees for their immigrant status. In addition, he was no longer free to return to his country of origin because of the communists who would have labeled him a “gusano” and subjected him to persecution. Don’t buy the left’s weak attempt to discredit the family by splitting hairs. He is still a refugee even if he didn’t file for refugee status.
She was was so happy to be in America, so proud of her chosen country
....... but she said Obama had all the earmarks of Castro and was distraught that history would repeat itself.
She was so genuinely scared....and she was right.
LOL!!!!!!
Cruz said he hasn’t misled.
“I have many, many times described the full context of his fighting with [Fidel] Castro — in the broader sense, … not side by side, but on the same side as Castro,” he said.
Shackelford, reached on Monday, said his point was the elder Cruz “came here for freedom” after being a “political prisoner.”
“As to whether it was [Fulgencio] Batista or Castro [in power,] I’m like, it doesn’t really matter,” Shackelford said. “There was one dictator replaced by a future dictator.”
Cruz, a former state solicitor general enjoying tea party and social conservative support, is one of four major Republican candidates in the March primary to succeed retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
He said his father began fighting against Batista’s regime when he was 14, in 1953. When the elder Cruz was 17, he was imprisoned and tortured by Batista’s government, his son said. The next year, 1957, Rafael Cruz legally went to Texas on a student visa issued by the Batista regime, Ted Cruz said.
Ted Cruz, who opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, said at no time was his father an illegal immigrant. He said his father, who graduated from the University of Texas in 1961, eventually became a permanent legal resident. The elder Cruz is now a U.S. citizen, living in Carrollton, his son said.
Ted Cruz said his father described himself as among young teenage boys who fought Batista and allied with Castro’s forces because “they didn’t know Castro was a Communist, what they knew was that Batista was a cruel and oppressive dictator.”
Cruz said his father became a staunch critic of Castro, along with several family members who remained in Cuba, when the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent.
My husband and his family came from Cuba in the 60’s. The ones who came over as adults have explained how Castro used the campaign of “change” much like Obama. The previous president wasn’t all that well liked, but some saw through what Castro was offering. His family has repeatedly compared Obama to Castro because they see the same socialism/communism thinly veiled in Obama that Castro openly pushed.
If someone did not agree with Castro’s “change” then Che happily took care of any dissidents. Vocal dissidents tended to wind up dead while others ended up in prison, which was the case of a family member of my husband’s. The relative was eventually able to get out, but it was not without some time spent in a labor camp.
Just because someone came over before Castro took office, doesn’t mean, they weren’t a refugee from their homeland. Some knew the tide that was bringing Castro into office was going to be detrimental to their way of life and luckily got out before the dictator took office.
Many Cubans went back and forth at the time. Cuba was a territory of the USA and travel between was unrestricted. Many stayed in touch with relatives there even after Castro came to power. Many heard first hand accounts of Castro’s deceit.
Cuba was only a part of the U.S. for 10 years (1899 to 1909).
Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
You are correct. But there is plenty of ambiguity.
The US never formally recognized Cuba as sovereign, instead it was referred to as a territory among Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Isthmian Canal Zone, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Samoa, the Midway Islands and others.
The US Marines occupied Cuba in the 1920s and Roosevelt sent a large fleet of Navy ships to it in the 1930s. American investment was heavy throughout its history and it was in any case a protectorate of the US. Batista was installed by the US and was according to history form all angles a bad dictator.
With the heavy interplay among American business interests, lots of Cuban interests interspersed through out Florida, Cuba was considered a natural extension of North America and US policy was aimed at its annexation.
Bottomline the US treated Cuba like it was a territory.
Castro was actually successful - not a good comparison. He’s more like Scar from The Lion King.
Obama is Castro with more brown melanin & less grey matter.
My point was not whether what Sr Cruz says is true, but whether he has he the right to say it. He does not.
Your viewpoint is shaped by information from your husband’s family.
My information comes from first hand experience on the island, and knowing a wide range of people, both on the island and in the entire range of the exile diaspora, from the 1960s to last Thursday, from Miami to Mexico to NY to Paris, writers, painters, musicians, former polítical prisoners and just regular people. And two decades of reading and study.
So I feel qualified to say, that yes it does, and no, they didn’t.
A person who left Cuba in 1957 was NOT fleeing Castro, since Castro didn’t come to power until 1959. Anyone who left Cuba in 1957 and represents themselves as a former political prisoner, and part of the exile diaspora is *un mentiroso sin vergüenza* - especially if they were engaged in domestic terrorism. ( Do a little research).
And nobody, nobody, nobody - I repeat, nobody - got out in 1957 because they “saw what was coming”. The biggest businesses in the world had their companies taken from them, the most learned and erudite intellectuals were taken by surprise, the thousands of normal, middle class families fleeing were completely unprepared.
You may believe as you choose - just remember that I was the one who called it on Rubio months before his actual betrayal -
HupAs vote for HupAs.
Thank you for referencing that video dontreadthis. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the video and not you.
Great speech by Mr. Cruz!
However!
Just like Sarah Palin and her constitutionally irrelevant platitudes that appeal to conservatives, Mr. Cruz's audience was no better off with respect to understanding the federal government's constitutionally limited powers than they are with any of Palin's speeches imo.
As I've noted elsewhere, you could probably fit the following constitutional statutes addressing the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, along with Justice John Marshall's clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes, on two pages. Widespread knowledge of these statutes and the excerpt among legal voters could arguably shut down the unconstitutionally big federal goverment overnight.
Section 8 of Article I (Judge Napolitano reads Section 8 in 3 minutes.)
Article V
10th Amendment
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
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