Latin-American Intellectuals for Anti-Intellectualism
Around 200 Latin-American intellectuals and others issued a letter this week opposing condemnation of the Castro regime's human rights violations in the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Signatories from elsewhere included writers Alice Walker, Nadine Gordimer, and Jose Saramago. The letter referred to "anti-Cuban aggression" by the Bush Administration.
Consider the obscene illogic: People for whom open inquiry and creative freedom are indispensable side with a regime that systematically violates those rights and imprisons free- thinking Cubans. That's anti-Cuban aggression.
In this context, the Mexican poet Octavio Paz observed in Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey:
"...many Latin-American intellectuals, obliterated by the seduction of ideology, still defend Castro in the name of the principle of non-intervention. Do they perhaps ignore the fact that this principle is based on another, the 'freedom of self-determination'? A freedom that Castro, for more than thirty years, has refused the Cuban people."
For an in-depth discussion of this phenomenon, see Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot.
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Hitler - "Der Fuhrer" - The Leader
Mussolini - "Il Duce" - The Leader
Castro - The Maximum Leader
There seems to be a not too subtle pattern here.
Castro, who is said to have carried around a dog-earred copy of "Mein Kampf" during his student years, is a typical fascist tyrant, yet he is treated like a great statesman by virtually everyone.
That a brutal, murdering, kiddie-pimp can avoid the violent death that he so richly deserves is a tribute to the power of left-wing delusions.
Why is it that CBS News and AP never ask Arturo Sandoval his opinion of Castro's human rights policies and its effect on artists? Sandoval, perhaps the greatest trumpet player in history, had to escape from Cuba in order to play the kind of music that he loved.
There is no real art in Cuba, there is only art which serves the purposes of the "Maximum Leader".
But Bob, you must look on the bright side!
He's getting them a rice steamer, a pressure cooker, and he destroyed thousands of "Catholic Churches."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1359350/posts
Yes, he destroyed Catholic churches, and when he stopped temporarily his Hollowness, Pope John Paul II, went to Cuba and gently chastized the Maximum Leader by suggesting that there might be a little more religious freedom in Cuba.
There was not one word about the people who flee Cuba in home-made rafts. Nor has the Pope ever made statements condemning Cuba for any reason other that the repression of Catholicism.
When the Pope came to the US he had no problem condemning America with his parable about Lazarus and the rich man. When they die, Lazarus goes to heaven and the rich man goes to hell. Then he tells America that Lazarus is at the door in the form of the Third World. Guess who the rich man is?
Perhaps he is much brighter than you, Bob, and does not want to provoke the madman until the time is right, and something can be actually done about him.
WHY CAUSE MORE SUFFERING, TO PLEASE FOOLS LIKE YOU?
This Pope, and the intelligence gleaned from the Catholic Priests from behind the Iron Curtain for decades contributed mightily to the down fall of the Soviet union.
IT IS ONE OF THE REASONS HE BECAME POPE! YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE FAITHFUL, BECAUSE YOUR FANATICISM HAS MADE YOU BLIND, AND DANGEROUS!
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