Posted on 07/04/2014 9:05:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week National Public Radio (lavished with over $4 billion by U.S. taxpayers over the past decade) ran a week-long special series onand fromCuba. Such was its propaganda value for the Castro regime that Cubas own KGB-founded and mentored media gleefully ran some of the programs and in their pristinely unedited form.
Given totalitarian media practices thats quite a compliment to NPRs producers. To wit:
"Everything within the Revolution, nothing outside of it." (Fidel Castro speech, June, 1961.)
"Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." (Benito Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism, 1932.)
In his famous speech on June 16, 1961 Fidel Castro--whose KGB-designed jails and torture chambers at the time incarcerated one of every 19 Cubans for political crimes-- was warning the rest of his subjects how they might stay out of them. In particular he was setting the barbed-wire and machine-gun guarded boundaries of artistic freedom. If your prose or poetry or films or journalism served the purposes of the totalitarian regime (i.e. if you succumbed to lackeyism) you might remain outside of such enclosures. Otherwise?
As usual, as seen above, even with this declaration Fidel Castro was stealing--from his hero Benito Mussolini this time. Earlier he also stole from his hero Adolf Hitler.
Condemn me, it doesnt matter, declared Fidel Castro during the 1953 trial for his failed Moncada putsch. History will absolve me.
You may pronounce me guilty, declared Adolf Hitler during the 1924 trial for his failed Rathaus putsch. But the eternal court of history will absolve me.
Over the decades NPR and PBS (NPRs parent taxpayer-subsidized company) have run literally dozens of pieces on Nelson Mandela. So many in fact that an innocent bystander could easily conclude that the plight of political prisoners (especially black ones) greatly concerns NPR.
But all of NPRs reporting from Cuba proves otherwise. While NPR conducted canned interviews with KGB-trained Communist apparatchiks in Cuba last week, many Cubans (male and female, black and white) suffered in KGB-designed jail-cells for such crimes as quoting Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. In fact, NPRs (lily-white) Cuban hosts hold the distinction of jailing and torturing the most black political prisoners in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere--many more than the Vorster and Botha regimes jailed in South Africa, in fact.
And unlike Nelson Mandela, these Cuban freedom-fighters were jailed either after secret Stalinist trials or after no trial whatsoever. This Castroite practice, best we can tell, does not seem to offend NPR. None of the Cuban political prisoners were so much as mentioned during the week long PBS series. One of these, black Cuban dissident Sonia Garro, has spent the last three years in a KGB-designed dungeon without even being charged. This peaceful (but anti-communist) black lady was beaten, arrested and beaten again for the crime of carrying flowers in a peaceful religious demonstration honoring other peaceful Cuban blacks murdered earlier by Castros firing squads.
Think about it for a second, amigos: heres a savagely victimized person who qualifies as black and Hispanic and female --and is being tortured by a lily-white all-male military regime 90 miles from U.S. shores. Heres racism! Heres sexism! Heres a brutal and full-fledged Military Dictatorship propped up by greedy billionaires committing these horrors daily!
And heres utter silence by the mainstream media. Who else in modern history could conceivably get away with anything even approaching this level of sexist, racist oppression and cruelty without a peep of protest from U.S. media and civil rights leaders?
Ooops! Forgive me. You see Im implying that the U.S. media and U.S. civil rights leaders merely ignore the jailing and torture en masse of Cubans. This is wrong. Actually many of these fine folks go out of their way to glorify the jailer and torturer:
Fidel Castro could have been Cubas Elvis! Dan Rather
Fidel Castro is one hell of a guy! You people would like him! Ted Turner
Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtlyeven paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure! Andrea Mitchell
Castro has brought very high literacy and great health-care to his country. His personal magnetism is powerful, his presence is commanding. Barbara Walters
Viva Fidel! Viva Che! Jesse Jackson
"It was quite a moment to behold! Fidel Castro was very engaging and very energetic!"-- Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Barbara Lee.
"He's one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met!" Congressional Black Caucus member Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo)
The June 24th the NPR infomercial on Castros fiefdom featured a hard-hitting interview with Castro official Josefina Vidal, during which NPRs David Greene unearths such scoops as:
* The U.S. embargo of Cuba is very wicked.
* Raul Castro is an earnest reformer and all around swell fellow. And dont even get us started on his swell big brother Fidel!
Heres how NPR introduces their gracious Cuban interviewee: Josephina Vidal is director of U.S. relations for the Cuban government.
In fact Josefina Vidal is a KGB-trained Cuban agent who was expelled from the U.S. along with 13 other Cuban agents in June 2003 for espionage. Look carefully at the date of Vidals expulsion from U.S. shores. Castros agents (including Vidal), you see, were stealing U.S. military secrets and selling them to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. How many American boys died as a result of Josefina Vidals treachery?
Well never knowcertainly not from (American-taxpayer bankrolled) NPR, who is too busy feting this KGB-trained spy and proven enemy of America to bother informing the Americans who bankroll their programs about such trivial details.
NPR should be quite proud of themselves.
Theres money to be made in despotism...
Send a capitialist to college get a socialist back..
Financed by republicans for generations..
Bill Buckley was yelling up an empty pipe..
Amazing how accurate the John Bircher’s were..
BUT they have been erased from history in America..
http://www.jbs.org/about-jbs/myths-vs-facts
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