[lit-ideas] Re: Orange Bowl party planned for whenever Castro dies

More moral equivalence. There would be fuss on more than right-wing talk radio because president Bush is not a dictator. Armando Valladares wrote Against All Hope: A Memoir Of Life in Castro's Gulag where he details the abuse and inhumanity of his twenty plus years in prison. He was arrested for declining to place a Marxist placard on his desk and saw torture, maiming and execution that he describes in unvarnished detail. Fidel Castro has stayed in power by his ruthless suppression of dissent and many of those people in Miami have memories of that (and still have family in Cuba) so they will celebrate at the demise of the wicked.
Unfortunately, as Ramon Sanchez points out, Castro's death will not be the end to the tyranny: "Although everybody will be very happy that the dictator cannot continue to oppress us himself, I think everybody is still very sad because there are still prisons full of prisoners, many people executed, and families divided." 

On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Ursula Stange wrote:
Official city planning? This would be laughable if it weren't so despicable. Can you imagine the fuss on right-wing talk radio if Bush were at death's door and Cuba (or Iran) officially planned a big public festival complete with t-shirts and banners and .... for the moment of his death. It's the officialness of it that's depraved. Private people with a fifty-year grievance celebrating, I could understand, but the city fathers?

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