Castro's friends are deserting him

yahoo.com news ^ | May 1, 2003 | CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER

[Dialup Llama]

>They have killed and imprisoned people excessively.

?!? I would like to ask Carlos Montaner what would be an acceptable level of killing people?

[My2Cents]

In that case, they'd find some other tyrant to support...I guess there will always be Arafat.

[Dialup Llama]

>Two of Castro's friends that have not deserted him are Harry Belafonnte and Danny Glover.

Someone should by Harry and Danny a clue. Apparently they missed the email.

When Castro dies or loses his grip on reality (which will happen soon), the evil of the regime will be revealed and made plain even to the leftists. No one wants to be holding the bag when that happens.... even the die-hard commie lovers.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Ref post #14.

I wonder if they would still feel that way if Castro referred to them as "negritos".

I bet he does behind their backs. I have NO DOUBT about it.

[maro]

Would that it were true. It would give us an excuse to depose another tyrant.

[MattinNJ]

The deck?

On deck. It's a baseball term. The person to come up to bat after the current batter is in the on deck circle. Iraq was the last batter, and next up will be Castro (IMHO).

[Cacique]

ping

[geedee]

The Castro-supporter that I'll never comprende is Steven Spielberg. Being Jewish and after directing, producing, hawking, and slaving over Schindler's List, you would think Spielberg would be a mite more sympathetic to the Cuban victims. But he's not. He worships at the Castro altar more than any other Hollyweird-ite I know.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ah... baseball is fitting.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Life is cheap to communists. No individuals, just masses to exploit.

[Arthur McGowan]

Because, despite his painstaking labor, documenting the Holocaust, Spielberg still believes that Hitler was a RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Glover and Belafonte are part of the Black Klux Klan.....like most of the members of the Castro-loving Congressional Black Caucus

It would be great to get rid of Castro and the Commies. Can you imagine the economic impact of a free Cuba..on both the US and Cuba? No, do not lift sanctions on Castro Cuba (free-trade w the Commies just puts $$ in Castro's pocket)

If we really wanted to.....we could blockade Cuba with our Navy.....and Castro and the Commies will eventually fall. Dan Rather and friends wont like it....but it would be best for this part of the world

[daviddennis]

What if we surprise Castro and simply dump the tourism embargo?

That way he can't blame the lack of tourists on the big, bad US.

My personal experience with tourism in Cuba says that most people will hate it and not come back. Everything is horribly overpriced and the regime tries to confine you to excruciatingly dull tour bus tourism. And food in Cuban restaurants is perhaps Communism's most horrible experience because you have to endure it every day.

I loved my trip to Cuba because I hooked up with a delightful Cuban girl and stayed (inexpensively) in a Cuban's home with good food. But if you do the corporate route, you'll be desperately unhappy. I could tell because I met someone who did in the airport on the way back and you could see he hated his vacation. And I never saw anyone in a tour bus smile.

For me, Castro's crossed the line by imprisoning those dissidents. I felt my trip to Cuba was relatively harmless since Castro had a reputation as a defanged dictator, but with the arrests and the involvement with Hugo Chavez I no longer feel that way.

I miss Cuba - I really loved the Cuban people - but unfortunately I just can't support that government with another trip. So I guess in a sense I support the embargo now, but I do wonder what would happen if we stopped giving Castro excuses for his disasterous regime.

D

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Glover and Belafonte are part of the Black Klux Klan.....like most of the members of the Castro-loving Congressional Black Caucus

The thurst for power knows no color or loyalties. Castro panders to them to annoy the U.S. with the spectacle of them kissing his Marxist feet and they lap it up.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I miss Cuba - I really loved the Cuban people - but unfortunately I just can't support that government with another trip. So I guess in a sense I support the embargo now, but I do wonder what would happen if we stopped giving Castro excuses for his disasterous regime.

It's time to put the blame at Castro's feet where it belongs. Imagine how it feels to those who love Cuba more than you, as a tourist, do? To send or spend dollars in Cuba is the same as supporting Castro's regime and his anti-American terrorism around the world. We did not make Castro. We have not nurtured Castro. He, alone, claims that infamous distinction.

[George W. Bush]

Invade Cuba now.

There's no good reason to let Castro continue breathing in the 21^st century. He's already killed too many people. It's an affront to have such a miserable regime only 90 miles from the U.S.

Just invade Cuba and shoot this bastard and hold genocide trials for his worst cronies.

[skinkinthegrass]

Castro can AWAYS count on the Liberals to bail him out...what are for for.

[daviddennis]

I have never placed blame for Cuba's problems anywhere but with Castro and his regime.

Cuba is heartbreakingly beautiful and I have the pictures to prove it. I'm not sure if you can fully comprehend the horrors of Communism unless you've actually visited a Communist country, and quite honestly this is one reason I went. I had to see for myself if it was as bad as it's often portrayed, or if the apologists were right.

I was frankly curious about a totally different, alien system that worked in a totally different way from Capitalism. I figured it would be a fascinating trip, and it was.

After seeing Cuba, I can't understand how the apologists can live with themselves. They must see a tour-bus version of Cuba where the collapsing buildings (an unbelieveably beautiful but depressing sight) are hidden. But since I went to stay with a Cuban family, I saw it all.

For me, it was all summarized not even by the police on every street corner, but by the terrible food (Cuba's regulations make it all but illegal to serve quality food at a restaurant), the collapsing housing, the Soviet cars, the Soviet plane I took to get there, and so on.

They hide the police state aspects of Cuba fairly well from tourists, but you can smell the fear in encounters with ordinary Cubans. They don't like their government at all. I really wonder where the leftists got their interviewees.

D

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you for sharing this.

[Amore]

I sent an e mail to MCI telling them that I was looking for a new long distance carrier, but would not consider MCI as long as they were using Glover as a spokesman. They wrote me back with some baloney about how Glover's views were his own and not those of MCI. They don't seem to see the significance of their using someone as THEIR representative who holds those widely announced views.