The Tyrant In Our Backyard

In the contest of wills between those who embrace the oppression of evil, vs. we who fervently believe in the Sovereignty of the Individual, it seems that we're enjoying a beneficial swing of the pendulem in our direction.

Even if we've had to wrest it from the kicking, screaming, crying, wailing grasp of totalotarian elitests, eveywhere. (this means you, Chirac..Schroeder...Kofi... et al)

It's vital though to keep the pressure up, and to keep it up on all fronts. Granted, we'll have to play rope-a-dope with shitholes like North Korea for a while longer. After all, we'll have to retreive a few divisions of soldiers and their equipment from the sandbox, first. After their extended R&R, and a repaint of all the toys to "Korean Shithole" cammo pattern, we'll be ready to go play there, in due time.

Perphaps forgotton in the scheme of things though, is the Tyrant to our South. Long before SoDamn Insane had ever heard of a Scud, Castro had deployed nuclear-tipped missles on his soil. The were aimed at East Coast and Gulf Coast targets. Thank God JFK had the balls (something missing from today's democommies), to call Kruschev's hand on that atrocity.

This man too, has balls.

HAVANA · Osvaldo Paya, Cuba's most prominent dissident and author of the Varela Project petition drive for government reforms, initiated a new campaign aimed at planning for a peaceful transition to democracy.

In a 72-page manifesto issued on Friday evening, Paya, 50, called for multiple political parties, amnesty for political prisoners, national reconciliation and private enterprise while preserving Cuba's free health care and educational systems.

Remember the guy in Tienanmen Square in China who stood in front of the tanks? This man is his brother, in spirit.

The move represents a new challenge to Fidel Castro's government at a time when Cuba's opposition movement has been crippled by an April crackdown on 75 peaceful dissidents who were sentenced to up to 28 years in prison.

All the more reason to admire Mr. Paya's courage and determination. To make such a stand in the face of an assured prison sentence is just incredible. Ever notice lefties like Sheen and his crowd do their little "overnight arrest" dance, but never face real oppression? Let 'em protest in Castro's Cuba and enjoy his "hospitality" for a change. About a 28 year change.

"Paya will be lucky if the government simply ignores the project and he remains free," a European diplomat told Reuters, adding it would be impossible to widely publicize the project because of state media control.

Sadly, we'll all be amazed if he remains free.

Castro is of the same ilk as Hussein. Granted, he may not have racked up the same 300,000+ in mass graves, but be assured, there's tens of thousands dead all the same. They only differ in scale, not in severity.

Both are cruel, totalitarian, inhumane and utterly unrepentant despots. Their crimes are virtually interchangeable. Hussein gassed the Kurds. Castro's armies killed only God knows how many in Africa. They both rule by absolute power, fear and oppression of the hearts, minds and souls of their peoples.

Val Prieto at Babalu Blog posts this powerful and moving letter from Manuel Vázquez Portal. Read there of Castro's "worker's paradise". Also, Steve at Little Tiny Lies writes of this blisteringly and so perfectly dead-on-target.

Thankfully, Hussein is now a moot point, save for his final disposition. Castro, sadly, is anything but moot. I'm for whatever it takes to tip the scales towards his rapid demise. For over forty years, the people of Cuba have had the life sucked out of them by this bearded parasite.

Cubans deserve no less freedom than the people of Iraq.

Comments

[Sam]

I agree. May it be a long smoke.

[Rivrdog]

And who says Castro couldn't have nukes? Don't forget that when JFK intervened, most nuke warheads could just barely be carried by a medium truck. Now, you and I could carry one in our briefcases.

Castro has been in bed with all manner of Marxists for a loooooong time. Don't forget that the original Middle Eastern terrorists were all Marxists, and so motive, means and opportunity (Africa) all existed for Castro to feed from them and vice versa.

No, Castro could still stir up a mess of shit for us, and instead of recognizing this, we are falling all over ourselves "normalizing" relations. Various lefty guilt-mongers have been pushing this cozy relationship in the name of atonement for Bay of Pigs. The only atonement we should do for Bay of Pigs is to do it right, next time.

[Denita TwoDragons]

Frankly, I don't understand why we shouldn't turn our attention on Castro next, once the Iraqi reconstruction is nearing its end. That Cuban tyrant-freak is entirely too close for comfort--especially with what Rivrdog had to say about the portability of nukes nowadays. And let's not forget--the POWER of nukes nowadays as well...

So many dictators, so little time...*sigh*

--TwoDragons