Real Freedom Fighters Take On CastroThe American left wing loves Castro, for some reason. Europe has continually shown how unimportant it is, since they don't boycott Cuba and Cuba is still a wretched wreck of a place where the only people allowed to own computers are a few of Castro's party faithful. Yet real freedom fighters, people who have seen real oppression, and not just the white-washed kind that Hollywood ( typified by Oliver Stone and his ilk ) want to show you, know that Castro is not a good guy ... and they say it is time to do something. Two of them, Lech Walesa of Poland and Vaclav Havel of Czech Republic, are unimpeachable voices for freedom. Arpad G?ncz, Former President of Hungary, while never as public as the previous two, was nonetheless a voice against Soviet oppression in a time when saying such things could make you disappear ... as happens in Cuba today. They write, in a joint letter: "Earlier this year, Fidel Castro's regime imprisoned 75 representatives of the Cuban opposition. More than 40 co-ordinators of the Varela project - which draws on the current Cuban constitution and calls for the holding of a referendum on the freedom of speech and assembly, the release of political prisoners, free enterprise and free elections - and more than 20 journalists, together with other representatives of various pro-democracy movements, were sentenced in mock trials to prison terms ranging from six to 28 years, merely for daring to express an opinion other than the official one." and "It is time to put aside transatlantic disputes about the embargo of Cuba and to concentrate on direct support for Cuban dissidents, prisoners of conscience and their families. Europe ought to make it unambiguously clear that Castro is a dictator, and that for democratic countries a dictatorship cannot become a partner until it commences a process of political liberalisation." When these men speak, the entire world should sit up and listen. Article Here |
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