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| Sanders' praise of Castro sickens me – I was there, Bernie! |
| 2020-03-04 |
| [WND] Bernie Sanders has given us a peek into his worldview. It goes something like this: Hitler built great highways. Mussolini made the trains run on time. And Fidel Castro educated the illiterates of Cuba. What a disgusting spectacle it was, watching this presidential candidate pay media homage to the leading mass murderer in the history of this hemisphere! Anybody like me, who fell deeply in love with the whole Castro setup and had remained in that state of glowing admiration for almost two weeks ‐ by which time the regime's bloodthirsty nature was revealed in the thousands of executions by firing squad after a 10-minute trial, or no trial at all! ‐ had to feel like a bully was opening old wounds, which hurt just as much now as they did originally when Fidel and Ché Guevara were taking such delight in Castro's "revolutionary justice." The Castro regime, when questioned about those reckless firing squads, replied "We don't execute according to old-fashioned law. We execute according to revolutionary justice." That quote is really an almost diplomatic version of the Castro regime's policy on its elimination of any real or potential opposition. What Ché Guevara actually said was, "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution. And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." I was one of those naive young journalists who thought Fidel would bring democracy to Cuba and then, in the style of Simón Bolivar, go about liberating and bringing democracy to all the nations of Latin America. The betrayal of trust like ours still hurts. To hear Bernie Sanders casually talking about the wonderful deeds Castro brought to Cuba was sickening and acutely disgraceful. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Has it ever dawned on the Bernie Bros that, in his strange and shabby non-career of 5 decades in a backwater, the man has never actually faced a robust national election in which he was taken seriously by a serious opponent and called to account for his ludicrous bullshit? He's like a weekend oftball player about to face his first big-league hardball pitcher. And forkball. And sliders and split-finger fastballs that warp and wiggle past you at 100mph. He's going to be destroyed, and quickly. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-04 00:27 |