Hey Folks,
Have you heard? Fidel Castro had an operation.
Have you heard? Some former Cubans now living in Florida and supporting Whore-hay Bush, were dancing in the streets anticipating Fidel’s demise.
What are these people thinking?
For almost fifty years they – and American big businesses as well – have been praying for / salivating over Castro’s inevitable death. What are these people thinking?
A Columbus Dispatch headline says “U.S. is ready to help with democracy efforts.”
What does THAT mean ?
A New York Times story tells us: “A plan announced by the State Department two weeks ago provides $80 million over two years to help with a post-Castro transition. The United States also would send special monitors and advisers to Cuba after a full transition began."
Yeah, but what does THAT mean? They are going to send Raul $80 million? Raul is going to let U.S. “advisers” come in and kibitz?
What are these people thinking?
As I remember, we here in the Shining City on the Hill didn’t take too kindly to foreigners dancing in the streets celebrating American deaths. As Arsenio used to say, “Makes you wantta go ‘hmmmmmmm…’”
Aside from lacking good taste, practicing infidelity to Catholic doctrine, and practicing a double standard; do those Miami pendejos actually think that when Castro dies they will simply return to Cuba and assume their former position at the top of the social order and reinstitute the old mechanisms of mass exploitation? Eliminate national health care? Eliminate universal, public education? Rebuild racial barriers? Welcome the return of the Mafia? Make lots of money and live happily ever after?
Are we supposed to believe that the Bush & Co. definition of democracy in Cuba is any different from the “democracy” they have defined in Iraq? Are we supposed to believe that it would benefit Cubans any more than it has benefited Iraqis?
And doesn’t that “plan announced by the State Department two weeks ago” strike you as strange?
I mean, after all these years of embargo aimed at starving them out, Uncle Sugar is going to rain money on them. What a laugh.
No, the money will be used only so much as it furthers AMERICAN interests - i.e. regaining its formerly dominant and exploitative position. It will be spent only on those who’ll play ball with the American monkey-money-makers – forget the Cubans. Those who would sell out their people for personal gain (see the House of Saud ) will get the money, and we will call them heroes and “speaders of democracy.”
If they are, in turn, jailed for subversion ( and sent to “Gitmo” for water-boarding?), we won’t ask them why they "hate Cuba?” We’ll cry foul (unless they work for the New York Times, where – as we all know - treason DOES rule) and demand that they be allowed to spend our money in whatever constructive way they decide would best overthrow the government.
But it gets weirder.
After unveiling an American plan to spend $80 million to influence the “transition” in Cuba, Bush and Co., the Times reports, “viewed attempts by Venezuela or other countries to influence the transition in Cuba as unwarranted intervention."
Un- warranted??
I thought Bush was the one who said you don’t need a warrant.
- Uke Man
Have you heard? Fidel Castro had an operation.
Have you heard? Some former Cubans now living in Florida and supporting Whore-hay Bush, were dancing in the streets anticipating Fidel’s demise.
What are these people thinking?
For almost fifty years they – and American big businesses as well – have been praying for / salivating over Castro’s inevitable death. What are these people thinking?
A Columbus Dispatch headline says “U.S. is ready to help with democracy efforts.”
What does THAT mean ?
A New York Times story tells us: “A plan announced by the State Department two weeks ago provides $80 million over two years to help with a post-Castro transition. The United States also would send special monitors and advisers to Cuba after a full transition began."
Yeah, but what does THAT mean? They are going to send Raul $80 million? Raul is going to let U.S. “advisers” come in and kibitz?
What are these people thinking?
As I remember, we here in the Shining City on the Hill didn’t take too kindly to foreigners dancing in the streets celebrating American deaths. As Arsenio used to say, “Makes you wantta go ‘hmmmmmmm…’”
Aside from lacking good taste, practicing infidelity to Catholic doctrine, and practicing a double standard; do those Miami pendejos actually think that when Castro dies they will simply return to Cuba and assume their former position at the top of the social order and reinstitute the old mechanisms of mass exploitation? Eliminate national health care? Eliminate universal, public education? Rebuild racial barriers? Welcome the return of the Mafia? Make lots of money and live happily ever after?
Are we supposed to believe that the Bush & Co. definition of democracy in Cuba is any different from the “democracy” they have defined in Iraq? Are we supposed to believe that it would benefit Cubans any more than it has benefited Iraqis?
And doesn’t that “plan announced by the State Department two weeks ago” strike you as strange?
I mean, after all these years of embargo aimed at starving them out, Uncle Sugar is going to rain money on them. What a laugh.
No, the money will be used only so much as it furthers AMERICAN interests - i.e. regaining its formerly dominant and exploitative position. It will be spent only on those who’ll play ball with the American monkey-money-makers – forget the Cubans. Those who would sell out their people for personal gain (see the House of Saud ) will get the money, and we will call them heroes and “speaders of democracy.”
If they are, in turn, jailed for subversion ( and sent to “Gitmo” for water-boarding?), we won’t ask them why they "hate Cuba?” We’ll cry foul (unless they work for the New York Times, where – as we all know - treason DOES rule) and demand that they be allowed to spend our money in whatever constructive way they decide would best overthrow the government.
But it gets weirder.
After unveiling an American plan to spend $80 million to influence the “transition” in Cuba, Bush and Co., the Times reports, “viewed attempts by Venezuela or other countries to influence the transition in Cuba as unwarranted intervention."
Un- warranted??
I thought Bush was the one who said you don’t need a warrant.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
This is an absolutely fantastic writing. I wish it could be published nationwide. People don't even stop to think about the Cuba situation. They blindly follow the government and ask no questions.
Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into this posting. Sondra
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