A most interesting and foreboding letter.
From Richmond Times-Dispatch, Monday, July 7, 2008 ~Comment by jlewisbass on 9/2/08 on Obama camp connects the dots for Jews: McCain ... Palin ... Buchanan ... "Nazis." By Marc Caputo, Miami Herald, 8/30/08.
Dear Editor, Times-Dispatch:
Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30 I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4 I celebrate America's. This year is special, because it marks the 40Th anniversary of my independence.
On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later, I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.
I've thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot about Cuba and what transpired there. In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.
When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said, 'Praise the Lord.' And when the young leader said, 'I will be for change and I'll bring you change,' everyone yelled, 'Viva Fidel!'
But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent, the people's guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans. And now I'm back to the beginning of my story.
Luckily, we would never fall in America for a young leader who promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out? What will it cost America?
Would we?
3 comments:
Yep Col,
Good to see someone appreciates our wonderful Republic. And who better than one who has suffered under the tyranny of Progressivism/Socialism/Communism.
I was here in S. Florida where we, with a better microscope, watched Cuba fall completely when the liberals in our country pulled the plug on the Bay of Pigs effort to liberate Cuba from tyranny.
I was here when the wonderful professionals, who made the Cuban economy percolate, ran for their lives to our neighborhoods in S. Fla. Great people!
I was here when Castro and his Communist thugs slaughtered live chickens in the suites of the finest hotels in New York while our liberals welcomed them with open arms.. Thankfully I was not there.
I was here when Castro emptied his prisons and multiple thousands of Marielistas landed here in S. FLa, mostly felons but a few innocents. We saw them walking up our highways to Miami.
I am still here in S. Fla. where I see the second and third generations of originally Conservative expatriates embracing the same Leftist-Socialist philosophy from which their parents and grandparents fled in Cuba.
I am still here -- because I love and respect my country.. but I wonder, does my beloved country any longer respect me.
In Christ thankfully,
ExP(Jack)
Our country does not respect the values that you have, Jack. I figure I've only encountered fewer than 50 people of my personal acquaintance in America who have ever articulated a concern for the mechanics of liberty as delineated in the Constitution. 99 out of 100 of the citizenry think the essential protection of their liberties is to be found in voting.
The dilution of constitutional protections by the Supreme Court doesn't really concern very many people as witness the incessant focus on the MERITS of allowing or preventing abortion. The real travesty was the spurious Supreme Court's discovery of a federal right to an abortion in the magnetic auras of the Constitution.
It's been the same with the supernova expansion of the Commerce Clause. A huge federal power grab that occasioning riots in the streets protesting this encroachment on our liberties. No, wait! I forgot this is modern America where NFL games and NASCAR are what REALLY set the hearts of American citizens to pounding.
Ditto on the issue of border integrity and the dilution of the privileges and obligations of citizenship.
The left has played its seditious role in undermining our institutions but it's our friends and neighbors who have dropped the ball as well. Too many of us have been happy to accept the benefits of expediency.
Our Cuban friend's perspective is one of direct contact with the left and its debased morals and killer politics. Eric Ormsby presciently wrote in a review of a novel by Victor Serge that "there is no escape from the logic of revolution; however high-minded its premises, it almost always has murder as its conclusion."
But that perspective apparently cannot be passed on to the young, who are, perhaps, blinded by other powerful influences, what J.R. Nyquist calls the Shopping Mall culture and the unbelievably naive multiculturalist and diversity fanatics who run our schools.
We've lived in a horribly naive century, Jack. The contest with the Soviets was a far closer one than it should have been and the horrific cost of it can justly be laid at the feet of the Left who never met a communist they didn't like and a U.S. military man they didn't hate.
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In this day of credit obfuscation and manipulation, just charge the 75 cents!! Just trust me.
ExP(Jack)
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