by
Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton
The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is
holding its 94th annual convention in Miami.
And black Cuban Americans, former political prisoners of
Castro’s gulag, have been trying to call the attention of the NAACP,
seeking their help and solidarity about the ongoing violations of human
rights of black Cubans and the apartheid in Cuba.
Their idea is: if it was bad in South Africa, why isn’t it bad
in Cuba?
However,
NAACP’s president, Kweisi Mfume has praised Cuba in several
discussions during the convention proceedings.
According
to an article by Steve Miller published in The Washington Times on July
16, Kweisi Mfume, “recounted a fall trip to Cuba during a press
conference over the weekend: ‘We met with African American students
who matriculated from Cuba — by the way, at no cost — from all over
the U.S. because they couldn't get into medical school here because of
this system that still sometimes creates impediments.’”
Finally,
a humanitarian program owned and operated by Castro!
Free scholarships for poor students from underdeveloped and poor
areas of the world. It’s
actually more than humanitarian and its a classic!
Let’s
take a look at it.
Bring
these students to Cuba and treat them well.
Not great, just a little better than they were being treated at
home. Take advantage of the
young minds of people, who, for economic reasons, feel a bit abandoned
by their society. Their
vulnerability gives them the tendency to feel resentment toward their
own culture and thus open to accepting all sorts of help, influence and
new ideas. Young people in
this state of mind are easily captured by the propaganda and have the
mind-set for political indoctrination.
The
technique was developed early in the 20th Century in
communist countries to create admirers and supporters where there were
none, and to form future cadres to spread the philosophy throughout the
world. Castro began his
international scholarship program in the early 1960’s.
It
does not take a genius to realize what happens when those students
return to their countries of origin after graduation in Cuba.
Castro and his revolution have become their role models.
And, as planted in their minds by their teachers in Cuba, they
begin to spread their new beliefs developed in the sheltered environment
especially created for their “education.”
Their stories about the ideal Cuba they experienced brings
sympathizers into Castro’s sphere of influence.
The new converts repeat the tales to others and so on, like a
cult. This communist
technique of spreading propaganda has proven very effective for decades
across many continents.
Communist
infiltration in an open and democratic society where discrimination for
political beliefs is prohibited is very easy.
This insertion by seemingly genuine believers demoralizes and
upsets people about their own society inciting desires for drastic
changes with the goal of creating a “better world,” that of course
is based on principles of Marxist theory.
It
does not matter that Marxism has proven to be a dismal failure all over
the world. The Marxists –
like members of any cult - are very persistent.
In spite of the collapse of most of their empire, they keep going
and going like the battery-powered bunny.
Keep watching, communism is not dead.
Castro,
although looking increasingly like a corpse, is still alive and kicking.
And no matter what the U.S. media and the uniformed say, he is
still a threat to the security of the U.S.
It
is known that Castro has produced bacteriological agents for warfare.
That he is involved in the electronic spying of military,
economic and civilian targets in the U.S.
That he is waging a cybernetic war by developing, producing and
sending computer viruses to disrupt military and civilian computers in
the U.S.
And
as recently as 5:35
p.m. EDT on July 5,
2003, Cuba
began
jamming
all broadcast programming from the U.S. to Iran from their main
electronic eavesdropping base in Bejucal,
20 miles outside of Havana. This
is directly affecting the U.S. Voice of America and privately owned
pro-democracy Iranian radio and television stations located in
California. This base was
built by the Russians in the early 1990’s to monitor and intercept
satellite communications. And
as we can see, it is still working.
Next
door to the former Russian electronic spy facility of Lourdes near
Havana, “our friend,” China, has built a state-of-the-art spy
facility to gather personal, commercial and political information about
the U.S. China trained the
personnel and is supervising the operation.
According to Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, China already has
“two electronic eavesdropping stations in Cuba.”
The
U.S. media has kept this information hidden from the American public.
And
in a new scheme to further manipulate public opinion in his favor and to
create future problems and unrest in the U.S., Castro is now offering
his infamous scholarships to U.S. students.
Our
“benevolent” tyrant to our south, in May 2000, offered to a group of
visiting U.S. lawmakers from the Congressional Black Caucus, to provide
free “medical training” to 500 Americans, mostly minorities.
And in September 2000, revealing the other side of the same coin,
he offered to send “doctors”
to Mississippi and other states where trained medical personal are in
short supply. Which reminds
me of his offer to send “election experts” to the U.S. to help count
votes in Florida. Cuba has
not had a free and democratic election in 44 years!
The
irony of Castro’s offer of “doctors” and his well-publicized
donations of medicines to other countries is that common, vital
medicines in Cuba are not available to the citizens.
Cuban Americans – called “Miami Mafia” by Castro and the
U.S. media - have been sending their relatives in Cuba medicines and
prescription eyeglasses for decades.
And after the legalization of the dollar in Cuba, they have been
sending millions of dollars to their relatives so they can purchase
their own medicines at Castro’s dollar-only stores.
And
some of the medicines donated to Cuba by charitable organizations from
the U.S. and many other countries are sold in those dollar-only stores.
Also, Cuban citizens have to pay for some medical treatments and
procedures made available to them in dollars only - in spite of
Castro’s claims of free health care.
In
spite of all those facts, the members of the U.S. Congressional Black
Caucus have accepted Castro’s offer and are excited to send low-income
minority students for his free “medical” study scholarships.
Half of them (250) are blacks and the rest will be distributed
among other disadvantaged minorities.
Castro’s friend and admirer, New York Democrat Rep. Jose
Serrano looked for Castro’s easily influenced young minds in the
Bronx.
Castro’s
generous program (without any ulterior motive, of course) will house,
feed and indoctrinate – oops, sorry – train in the “medical
arts” 500 impressionable young Americans carefully selected by the
Congressional Black Caucus and other Castro lovers.
And every year another 500.
And in six years we’d better move out when those trainees troop
into U.S. hospitals. A real
invasion of the body snatchers. Lets
make sure we have plenty of room for the pictures of Che.
They all come back with pictures of Che to hang up all over the
place.
It
is almost like a tragicomedy, the fixation of the NAACP, the U.S.
Congressional Black Caucus with a tyrant that is a racist and a fascist
communist. Castro is what
hippies used to call in the 1960s a “Pig.”
And you have Democrat Congresspersons Charles Rangel of New York,
Maxine Waters and Barbara Lee of California and Sheila Jackson-Lee of
Texas among others fawning over him!
Sometimes you doubt their intelligence or the real intentions
under their façade. Could
it be just a simply case of falling under the spell of a cult leader?
With Castro’s outrageous record, there is no other explanation.
How
can black Americans who understand the evil of slavery and racism feel
any sympathy for Castro?
According
to Stephan Archer’s article published by NewsMax.com on May 9, 2000,
the “evidence suggests that black and mulatto Cubans are treated
unfairly and even harshly. Prison
conditions continue to be harsh in Cuba, but for the black prisoner,
particularly those who speak out against the government, conditions are
even worse. The fact that
there are black dissidents is a tremendous slap in the face for the
Castro regime.” The
history of the political prisoners in Cuba is not only white but
composed of thousands of blacks who despise his tyranny.
But
the NAACP and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus is silent about that.
They never talk about or much less denounce the tortures, abuses
and injustices of black political prisoners like Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet
and many of their brothers and sisters rotting away and dying in
Castro’s infamous gulag. What
about the three blacks executed last April for wanting to escape
Castro’s plantation?
And
on Monday July 14, 2003, at about 9:30 a.m., near the town of La Coloma
in Pinar del Rio province, three men and a woman with her two sons, 10
and 17, tried to escape the island.
Castro’s henchmen surprised them and in order to avoid another
execution to upset the Europeans (not the Americans) killed the three
men and shot the 10-year-old boy in the head.
(Some reports indicate he survived, although remains in grave
condition.) The names of
the victims are, Francisco Lamas Caron, 29, Yosvani Martinez Acosta, 27
and Luis Alberto Suarez Acosta, 22.
The
Cuban regime claimed that they killed each other . . ..
I have yet to see a report of this incident in the U.S. media.
Archer’s
article also said, “In 1997, Castro implemented Decree 217, which was
designed to control the migration flow from poorer provinces to the
capital city of Havana.” In
effect, this specifically targeted the poor black and mulatto population
concentrated in the eastern provinces.
“The decree also resulted in numerous credible reports that
said many desperate blacks and mulatto squatters, not having official
permission to reside in Havana under Decree 217, are forcibly evicted
from their homes and sent back to the countryside.”
How
would those Castro-loving NAACP members and U.S. Representative of the
Congressional Black Caucus like it if a similar decree was in force in
their respective states? Well,
if that would be unacceptable in the U.S., why is acceptable in Cuba?
And why send unsuspecting young Americans to live and be
“educated” – even for free – in such a devious political system
in a country classified for its terrorist activities as a “rogue
nation”?
The
only decent and honorable thing for the NAACP and the U.S. Congressional
Black Caucus to do is to recognize Castro and his regime for what it is
and help in the liberation of the black Cubans suffering
disproportionately under a white slave master and his henchmen.
Otherwise, history will not be kind to them.
©
2003 ABIP
