Cuba - May Day

The Conning Tower ^ | May 5, 2003 | Trentino

[Davis]

Time hasn't been kind to the Left. The rosy dreams, the shining countenances uplifted toward the Marxist-socialist future of peace and plenty have faded and fled. The Bolshevik revolution, hailed by worshipers at the shrine of Lenin, lies exposed as a monstrous nightmare of death, deceit, and delusion. So, too, there remains of each successive marxist/socialist triumph--China, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Soviet bloc behind the Iron Curtain, etc.--only an unblemished record of repression and disaster.

Now, the already moribund Left has been dealt a kick in the crotch by one of its few remaining iconic figures, Fidel Castro. A month ago, Fidel, Hollywood's darling, poster boy of the Left, after secret trials where the defendants, some eighty of them, were denied counsel and were found guilty of a variety of crimes that amount to no more than criticizing Castro's government. For their contumacy of writing and speaking in dissent, they were sentenced to long prison terms, many between 20 and 27 years. In the same week, three men charged with hijacking a ferryboat, were also tried in secret without benefit of counsel and killed by firing squad.

You would think the Left, composed as it is of the most moral and humane beings on the planet, would rise up in indignation, fly off to Havana and every world capital, hauling protest signs and loudspeakers, assailing Castro and his thugs for this breach of civilized behavior. In the vanguard, surely, the particular friends of Fidel, Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger, Oliver Stone, the whole greasy Left crew of fawning admirers would stand shoulder to shoulder.

Alas....more

[Ebenezer]

Cuba's pro-democracy dissidents have been crying "Mayday! Mayday!" ever since Castro began filling up the jails and keeping firing squads busy in 1959.

[Free ThinkerNY]

The Stalin of the Caribbean

[MattinNJ]

Is it me, or is Castro getting a lot of unwanted attention lately. I've had a sneaking suspicion that he's next.

[Tacis]

The UN, the Pope, Presidente Fox and all those others who write annoying letters every time Texas or Oklahoma dispatches an evildoer, should be pleased to learn that both states are sending delegations to Havana to see how their criminal justice systems can be tweaked to bring them up to Cuba's level of efficiency.

Some leftists have protested, but I don't see the usual letter writers commenting on Cuba's summary executions. Of course, they were, indeed, evildoers; they tried to escape from Cuba.