Media Glorify Socialist Thugs, While People Risk Death to Enter US
Jim Kouri, CPP
January 02, 2006
According to a number of Sunday news stories, during Bolivia's newly elected President Evo Morales' visit with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in Havana, the two communist leaders announced that the cooperation between their two countries will blossom. Of course, the American news media avoided the words "communism" and "communist" or even "socialism" or "socialist," preferring the term "left-leaning."
One may argue that the US Democrat Party is left-leaning instead of being socialist or communist, but Morales and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez aren't leaning -- they wholeheartedly jumped into the radical-socialist cesspool.
According to a story in the Times of India, during the visit the two men announced a 30-month plan to erase illiteracy in the South American nation as Cuba moves to increase hemispheric cooperation without US influence. Cuba also agreed to offer free eye operations to up to 50,000 needy Bolivians with vision problems, as well as 5,000 full scholarships for young Bolivians to attend university on Castro's island paradise. Liberals love plans. Five year plans. Ten year plans. They're always talking about their own plans and ask others, "Where's your plan." Or accusing opponents of "not having a plan."
Now what red-blooded American liberal could resist applauding such lofty, humanitarian goals, even when they come from despots whose people dream of escaping to the horrid, corrupt and racist USA. Of course, we have no idea what these soon-to-be literate Bolivians will be reading, and it's safe to assume that if US university campuses are chock full of Marxists, Cuba's school's will provide a multitude of classes on socialism, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism. Wait, that sounds like Harvard and Yale.
It goes far beyond US college campuses. Many respected celebrities are enamored with characters such as Fidel Castro. According to NewsMax's James Hirsen, actor Jack Nicholson called Fidel a "genius." Comedian Chevy Chase announced that "socialism works...look at Cuba." Meanwhile, executives from CBS television visited Cuba and one of the media executives gushed, "[Cuba] is the most romantic, soulful and sexy country I've ever been to in my life."
Steve Spielberg said his lengthy meetings with Castro were the most important ones of his life. News genius Katie Couric once compared Miami and Havana and said the difference between the two cities is that Miami is a place that does not tolerate freedom of political expression. Reporters from Newsweek also preferred the dictatorship of Castro to the crime and violence in America. They stated in their puff piece masquerading as news that Cuba is more peaceful and cares more about children, says Hirsen.
As the Latino socialists Castro and Morales boasted of their plans to unite as they thumb their noses at the United States, there appears to be a contradiction appearing in many of the same newspapers that printed stories of hope for Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and perhaps Chile.
Dozens of Cuban migrants, including at least nine children, came ashore throughout Southern Florida and Dry Tortugas, according to the US government. This was merely the latest of many stories of Latinos entering the US illegally to escape the poverty, hopelessness and repression that exists in their own countries.
While the likes of the New York Times portrays the US as a nation approaching a police state, with the Democrat Party and some "left-leaning" Republicans concerned with the decline in civil liberties, thousands and thousands of people risk life and limb to enter the US to live a life of abject poverty rather than remaining in their own socialist countries.
A total of 87 Cuban migrants reached Florida this time around, said Steve McDonald, spokesman for the US border patrol. Two groups totaling 37 people came ashore in Marathon, 28 came to Miami Beach, three reached Key Biscayne and 19 made it to the Dry Tortugas at the tip of the Florida Keys.
The group that came ashore in Miami Beach consisted of 12 men, seven women and nine children -- the youngest six years old, said Arley Flaherty, a Miami Beach police spokesperson.
The Miami Beach group told police that they left Cuba on Wednesday night and were picked up by a Good Samaritan when their makeshift boat was in trouble.
The Coast Guard said the number of captured seafaring migrants spiked to 2 834 in 2005 from 1 499 the previous year. Under the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot policy," Cubans who reach US soil are usually allowed to stay, while most picked up at sea are sent home.
Is this what Morales wants for his people in Bolivia? What Chavez desires for Venezuelans? Perhaps in the years to come, we will find Bolivians, Venezuelans and Chileans begging for their own "wet-foot, dry-foot policy."
Meanwhile, the news media, led by the newspaper of record the New York Times, will continue to distort what's happening in Latin America as socialism and communism begin to take root. They did it in the 1930s and 1940s with the Soviets and Chinese communists, why should they change now?
One may argue that the US Democrat Party is left-leaning instead of being socialist or communist, but Morales and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez aren't leaning -- they wholeheartedly jumped into the radical-socialist cesspool.
According to a story in the Times of India, during the visit the two men announced a 30-month plan to erase illiteracy in the South American nation as Cuba moves to increase hemispheric cooperation without US influence. Cuba also agreed to offer free eye operations to up to 50,000 needy Bolivians with vision problems, as well as 5,000 full scholarships for young Bolivians to attend university on Castro's island paradise. Liberals love plans. Five year plans. Ten year plans. They're always talking about their own plans and ask others, "Where's your plan." Or accusing opponents of "not having a plan."
Now what red-blooded American liberal could resist applauding such lofty, humanitarian goals, even when they come from despots whose people dream of escaping to the horrid, corrupt and racist USA. Of course, we have no idea what these soon-to-be literate Bolivians will be reading, and it's safe to assume that if US university campuses are chock full of Marxists, Cuba's school's will provide a multitude of classes on socialism, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism. Wait, that sounds like Harvard and Yale.
It goes far beyond US college campuses. Many respected celebrities are enamored with characters such as Fidel Castro. According to NewsMax's James Hirsen, actor Jack Nicholson called Fidel a "genius." Comedian Chevy Chase announced that "socialism works...look at Cuba." Meanwhile, executives from CBS television visited Cuba and one of the media executives gushed, "[Cuba] is the most romantic, soulful and sexy country I've ever been to in my life."
Steve Spielberg said his lengthy meetings with Castro were the most important ones of his life. News genius Katie Couric once compared Miami and Havana and said the difference between the two cities is that Miami is a place that does not tolerate freedom of political expression. Reporters from Newsweek also preferred the dictatorship of Castro to the crime and violence in America. They stated in their puff piece masquerading as news that Cuba is more peaceful and cares more about children, says Hirsen.
As the Latino socialists Castro and Morales boasted of their plans to unite as they thumb their noses at the United States, there appears to be a contradiction appearing in many of the same newspapers that printed stories of hope for Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and perhaps Chile.
Dozens of Cuban migrants, including at least nine children, came ashore throughout Southern Florida and Dry Tortugas, according to the US government. This was merely the latest of many stories of Latinos entering the US illegally to escape the poverty, hopelessness and repression that exists in their own countries.
While the likes of the New York Times portrays the US as a nation approaching a police state, with the Democrat Party and some "left-leaning" Republicans concerned with the decline in civil liberties, thousands and thousands of people risk life and limb to enter the US to live a life of abject poverty rather than remaining in their own socialist countries.
A total of 87 Cuban migrants reached Florida this time around, said Steve McDonald, spokesman for the US border patrol. Two groups totaling 37 people came ashore in Marathon, 28 came to Miami Beach, three reached Key Biscayne and 19 made it to the Dry Tortugas at the tip of the Florida Keys.
The group that came ashore in Miami Beach consisted of 12 men, seven women and nine children -- the youngest six years old, said Arley Flaherty, a Miami Beach police spokesperson.
The Miami Beach group told police that they left Cuba on Wednesday night and were picked up by a Good Samaritan when their makeshift boat was in trouble.
The Coast Guard said the number of captured seafaring migrants spiked to 2 834 in 2005 from 1 499 the previous year. Under the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot policy," Cubans who reach US soil are usually allowed to stay, while most picked up at sea are sent home.
Is this what Morales wants for his people in Bolivia? What Chavez desires for Venezuelans? Perhaps in the years to come, we will find Bolivians, Venezuelans and Chileans begging for their own "wet-foot, dry-foot policy."
Meanwhile, the news media, led by the newspaper of record the New York Times, will continue to distort what's happening in Latin America as socialism and communism begin to take root. They did it in the 1930s and 1940s with the Soviets and Chinese communists, why should they change now?
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