{"id":1068,"date":"2008-02-26T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T02:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T04:41:00","slug":"tuesday-february-26-2008-two-depressing-news-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, February 26, 2008 \u2014 Two Depressing News Items"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fidel Cas\u00adtro with Chilean dic\u00adta\u00adtor Augus\u00adto Pinochet, in 1977, cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00ading the tri\u00adumph of Pinochet\u2019s tor\u00adture regime. Pinochet ulti\u00admate\u00adly faced a mild pun\u00adish\u00adment and repu\u00addi\u00ada\u00adtion, but it looks like Cas\u00adtro will get away with his atrocities.<\/em><\/span>
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Cas\u00adtro with Sovi\u00adet dic\u00adta\u00adtor Niki\u00adta Khrushchev. Among oth\u00ader crimes, Khrushchev mas\u00adter\u00admind\u00aded racist pogroms and orches\u00adtrat\u00aded planned famines.. Togeth\u00ader, C and K near\u00adly brought the world to a nuclear holocaust.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> Cas\u00adtro with Ethiopi\u00adan dic\u00adta\u00adtor Mengis\u00adtu Haile Mari\u00adam. Cas\u00adtro\u2019s behind-the-scenes schem\u00ading brought Mari\u00adam to pow\u00ader, with Sovi\u00adet sup\u00adport. Cas\u00adtro\u2019s admi\u00adra\u00adtion for Mengis\u00adtu, who start\u00aded his reign with a blood\u00adbath, was unbound\u00aded. In May of 1977 the Swedish gen\u00ader\u00adal sec\u00adre\u00adtary of the Save the Chil\u00addren Fund stat\u00aded that \u201c1,000 chil\u00addren have been killed, and their bod\u00adies are left in the streets and are being eat\u00aden by wild hye\u00adnas \u2026 You can see the heaped-up bod\u00adies of mur\u00addered chil\u00addren, most of them aged eleven to thir\u00adteen, lying in the gut\u00adter, as you dri\u00adve out of Addis Aba\u00adba.\u201d [1] Cas\u00adtro enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adticly applaud\u00aded the action. Mari\u00adam sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly under\u00adtook one of the cen\u00adtu\u00adry\u2019s larg\u00ader geno\u00adcides, in which many mil\u00adlions died. Cas\u00adtro\u2019s sup\u00adport for this geno\u00adcide con\u00adtin\u00adued until Mengis\u00adtu\u2019s fall.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Span\u00adish dic\u00adta\u00adtor Fran\u00adcis\u00adco Fran\u00adco. Fran\u00adco and Cas\u00adtro were life-long friends and mutu\u00adal admir\u00aders. Cas\u00adtro mod\u00adeled his speak\u00ading style and swag\u00adger\u00ading man\u00adner\u00adisms on Fran\u00adco\u2019s. Cas\u00adtro\u2019s \u201cide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy\u201d was Span\u00adish Fas\u00adcism (Falangism) until it sud\u00adden\u00adly became Marx\u00adism\u2026 a \u201cchange\u201d that is mean\u00ading\u00adless, as it involved no change.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t expect any \u201clib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adiza\u00adtion\u201d after Fidel Castro\u2019s pho\u00adny \u201cretire\u00adment\u201d. The par\u00ada\u00adsitic Com\u00admu\u00adnist rul\u00ading class of Cuba has been maneu\u00adver\u00ading to pre\u00adserve its lit\u00adtle crim\u00adi\u00adnal empire, and the vast wealth that it has accu\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded by rob\u00adbing, exploit\u00ading and bru\u00adtal\u00adiz\u00ading the Cuban peo\u00adple. Along with Raoul\u2019s coro\u00adna\u00adtion, ultra-con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Marx\u00adist ide\u00ado\u00adlogues and mil\u00adi\u00adtary thugs have been moved into key posi\u00adtions, among them 77-year-old Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Macha\u00addo Ven\u00adtu\u00adra and 72-year-old Gen\u00ader\u00adal Julio Casas Regueiro. Both these men, along with Raoul Cas\u00adtro, rep\u00adre\u00adsent the most degen\u00ader\u00adate ele\u00adments in the Com\u00admu\u00adnist aris\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy. In the mean-time, the pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda machine of Marx\u00adist ortho\u00addoxy is being cranked up in the schools, and the inform\u00aders and thugs are out in force.<\/span><\/p>\n

The world\u2019s media have, through\u00adout his life\u00adtime, cod\u00addled Fidel Cas\u00adtro, treat\u00ading his tyran\u00adny as if it were a legit\u00adi\u00admate gov\u00adern\u00adment, and turn\u00ading a blind eye to the mur\u00adders, dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00adances, racism, per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion of intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals and gays, slave-trad\u00ading, mil\u00adi\u00adtary impe\u00adri\u00adal\u00adism and tor\u00adture prac\u00adticed by the Com\u00admu\u00adnist rul\u00ading class.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hor\u00adri\u00adble prospect is that Fidel Cas\u00adtro will die unpun\u00adished, rich and hap\u00adpy, with the his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal record fal\u00adsi\u00adfied to make him look like a \u201cgreat man\u201d. Not only that, he will have accom\u00adplished what all Com\u00admu\u00adnists have always dreamed of\u2026 the suc\u00adcess\u00adful trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion of a Com\u00admu\u00adnist aris\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy into a per\u00adma\u00adnent, hered\u00adi\u00adtary one. This is what is real\u00adly fright\u00aden\u00ading, because it will be a sig\u00adnal to all future dic\u00adta\u00adtors that they will ulti\u00admate\u00adly get away with what\u00adev\u00ader crimes they com\u00admit in their quest for wealth and power.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly impor\u00adtant that the truth about Castro\u2019s crimes against human\u00adi\u00adty be laid out to the pub\u00adlic. It is des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly impor\u00adtant that Cas\u00adtro be brought before a world tri\u00adbunal of jus\u00adtice and con\u00advict\u00aded of his crimes before he dies. At least there was a half-heart\u00aded attempt to do so with Castro\u2019s iden\u00adti\u00adcal twin, Augus\u00adto Pinochet. It is des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly impor\u00adtant, not only for the long-suf\u00adfer\u00ading peo\u00adple of Cuba, but to the rest of the decent peo\u00adple in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if I hear one more moron blath\u00ader\u00ading the ortho\u00addox \u201cMus\u00adsoli\u00adni Made the Trains Run On Time\u201d non\u00adsense about imag\u00adi\u00adnary \u201cuni\u00adver\u00adsal health care\u201d and oth\u00ader idio\u00adcies, I will do what any decent per\u00adson should do \u2015 tell said moron to fuck off, and walk away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Else\u00adwhere in the news\u2026 remem\u00adber the Bush administration\u2019s pre\u00adtend\u00aded \u201coppo\u00adsi\u00adtion\u201d to the even more bru\u00adtal Marx\u00adist exploita\u00adtion in North Korea? Such pos\u00adtur\u00ading, among America\u2019s \u00e9lite Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives, is as fake as their imag\u00adi\u00adnary \u201cfree mar\u00adket\u201d eco\u00adnom\u00adics or their fake oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion to ter\u00adror\u00adism. So, right now, the New York Phil\u00adhar\u00admon\u00adic is per\u00adform\u00ading in North Korea, one of the con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal steps in anoth\u00ader cyn\u00adi\u00adcal geopo\u00adlit\u00adi\u00adcal maneu\u00advre. The press will over\u00adwhelm\u00ading\u00adly claim that this kind of sick chi\u00adcanery is enlight\u00adened or \u201creal\u00adis\u00adtic\u201d (the usu\u00adal code\u00adword for prac\u00adtic\u00ading evil), but what it actu\u00adal\u00adly amounts to is the aban\u00addon\u00adment of the North Kore\u00adan peo\u00adple to an eter\u00adni\u00adty of slav\u00adery and famine. Shame on Zubin Mehta for allow\u00ading him\u00adself to be used in this wretched exer\u00adcise in pan\u00adder\u00ading to the slave trade. The choice of play\u00ading Dvorak\u2019s \u201cNew World Sym\u00adpho\u00adny\u201d \u2015 vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly an anthem of free\u00addom and human decen\u00adcy \u2015 to an audi\u00adence com\u00adposed entire\u00adly of cham\u00adpagne-swill\u00ading gang\u00adsters, is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Mr. Mehta had gone to per\u00adform for the peo\u00adple of North Korea, or to a group of musi\u00adcians, it would have been accept\u00adable. But he was play\u00ading, and pan\u00adder\u00ading, to their oppres\u00adsors. Mr. Mehta is a fine con\u00adduc\u00adtor, and musi\u00adcians can\u2019t be expect\u00aded to have a sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded under\u00adstand\u00ading of glob\u00adal pol\u00adi\u00adtics. But a musi\u00adcian is oblig\u00aded, like every\u00adone else, to be humane and civ\u00adi\u00adlized, and it doesn\u2019t take much sophis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adtion to under\u00adstand that cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00ading dic\u00adta\u00adtor\u00adship is moral\u00adly wrong. Back in the 1940s, there were a num\u00adber of famous con\u00adduc\u00adtors who debased them\u00adselves by doing sim\u00adi\u00adlar shame\u00adful dis\u00adplays for Hitler. I am dis\u00adgust\u00aded that Mr. Mehta is now in the same category.<\/span><\/p>\n

[1] Stephane Cour\u00adtois, et al. The Black Book of Com\u00admu\u00adnism: Crimes, Ter\u00adror, Repres\u00adsion. Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty Press, 1999. pg. 691<\/span><\/p>\n

To under\u00adstand the true nature of dica\u00adtor\u00adship, go to First Med\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion On Dictatorship<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fidel Cas\u00adtro with Chilean dic\u00adta\u00adtor Augus\u00adto Pinochet, in 1977, cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00ading the tri\u00adumph of Pinochet\u2019s tor\u00adture regime. Pinochet ulti\u00admate\u00adly faced a mild pun\u00adish\u00adment and repu\u00addi\u00ada\u00adtion, but it looks like Cas\u00adtro will get away with his atroc\u00adi\u00adties. Cas\u00adtro with Sovi\u00adet dic\u00adta\u00adtor Niki\u00adta Khrushchev. Among \u2026<\/p>\n

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