[lit-ideas] Re: Orange Bowl party planned for whenever Castro dies
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:38:01 -0000
> More moral equivalence
You, Brian, are the person promoting moral equivalence here.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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From: "Brian" <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: [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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