Castro Spy? Or Democratic Official? Who said it? Fun Exercise!
"Fidel has lifted the Cuban people out of the degrading and oppressive conditions which characterized pre-revolutionary Cuba. He has helped the Cubans to save their own souls. Cubans don't need to try very hard to make the point that we have been the exploiters."
If you answered: "Castro spy Kendall Myers' from his diaries," you win!
"I believe that there is no country in the world… including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime…"
If you answered: "Democratic President of the United States John F. Kennedy speaking to French Journalist Jean Daniel in Nov. 1963," you win!
"Batista was only one of the long list of murderous figures that we thrust upon them in the name of stability and freedom."
"Castro Spy Kendall Myers again for the above," You win!
"I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States."
Anser: "Democratic President John F. Kennedy, for the above," You win!
"Everything one hears about Fidel suggests that he is a brilliant and charismatic leader."
"Castro Spy, Kendall Myers, again?" You win!
"Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, a man I regard as a friend."
"Was that Democratic Presidental candidate, George Mc Govern..?" Indeed! you win!
"Castro exudes the sense of seriousness and purposefulness that gives the Cuban socialist system its unique character. The revolution is moral without being moralistic."
Castro Spy, Kendall Myers is the correct answer for the above.
"Castro first and foremost is and always has been a committed egalitarian. He despises any system in which one class or group of people lives much better than another. He wanted a system that provided the basic needs to all—enough to eat, health care, adequate housing and education."
If you answered: "the Jimmy Carter -appointed head of Havana's Cuban Interest section, Wayne Smith " for the above quote--you win!
"Have the Cubans given up their personal freedom to get material security? Nothing I have seen yet suggests that, I can see nothing of value that has been lost by the revolution. The revolution has released enormous potential and liberated the Cuban spirit."
Answer: "That's from Castro spy, Kendall Myers," and you win, again!
"Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education..the Cuban embargo is the stupidest law ever passed in the U.S."
Answer: "former U.S. Democratic president James Earl Carter" and you win!
(For this exercise, please overlook that all of the above talking points issued by Castro to his propagandists are demonstratively false. The point is, who's parroting them)
In subsequent meetings with the FBI source, the Myers.... asked the source to "send special greetings and hugs" to certain Cuban intelligence officials.
Well, Democratic legislator Charles Rangel not only sends those greetings he delights in carrying them out in person, bear-hugging Castro on his last visit to New York in 2000, during a thunderous, roof-shaking chorus of "VIVA FIDEL!!--VIVA FIDEL!!" from the capacity crowd of his constituents at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist, Church.
Kendall Myers boasts of receiving medals from Castro.
Well, our friend Prof. Tony De la Cova provides ready photographic proof of an Obama backer and frequent Miami Herald source, Max Lesnik, receiving medals from the Castro regime.
Considering the typical profile for a Castro Agent, and thus the literally millions of suspects, I'd say the FBI did a bang-up job in nabbing the Myers' in a short 30 years!
Unreal.
Brilliant. I was awaiting more quotes from the CBC, Nicholson, Bellafonte, Alice Walker, and the rest of the axis of idiots
It's a constant source of frustration for me. I don't understand how there can be so many spies-for-Castro in the U.S. government, in American Universities and seemingly in Congress and yet nothing happens to them. Every once in a while we get someone like the Myles, that couple in FIU, those five spies and Ana Montes exposed after many years of harm, but it seems to illicit little reexamination on the part of the American Media that basically keeps on mouthing the same policies created precisely by people like Ana Montes et al. Neither do the policy makers in the US government that want nothing more than engagement with Cuba seem to care that this allegedly non-threatening country constantly spies on us,infiltrates our government offices and manipulates our laws.
I know whatcha mean, Mike, but note that I mentioned "Democratic officials."
Hell, if I went over to Academia and Hollywood, this site (NO site!) would have sufficient bandwith for all the Castrophilic quotes!
Unreal.
"Castrophilia" -- Humberto, I think you coined a new word we'll be using here more and more...
Brilliant Humberto! And where do these bottom dwelling sewer rats choose to live? In the paradise whose virtues they extol to the masses? No of course not. They choose to live quite comfortably right here in the good ole USA amassing the riches of, and enjoying all the comforts of our evil system. You have to conclude that either they are blind to reality, stupid, or they do not truly believe their own propaganda. So, what is the payoff for these traitors?
The more I find out about Kennedy, the worse he looks--and he already looked mighty bad. As for Carter, well, he's a very special case: the worst kind of loser, living in perpetual denial of the painfully obvious. So "the Cuban embargo is the stupidest law ever passed in the U.S."? Really, Jimmy? Worse than laws blatantly discriminating against black people, for instance? You sure you want to go there? Worse than what your policies as president brought about in Iran and Nicaragua? Maybe you need to shut up and go build somebody a house, huh?
Asombra,
I agree with you, the er, uh, "Prince of Camelot" looks worse every time that we find more out about him. In fact, if it weren't for his assassination, the fawning press, and all the lies, an impartial analysis of his presidency would produce nothing more than revulsion at the monumental amount of incompetence, stupidity, ignorance, manipulation, communist infiltration and castrophilia that existed in his administration.
I'm sorry, is Batista's status as a thug still up for debate? JFK's abandonment of the men of 2506 was a crime but his assessment of Batista was spot-on. Cuba managed to develop as much as it did despite Batista, not because of him.
Caballero,
Yeah, and Mussolini made the trains run on time.
So bully for JFK. He saw a thug in Batista. And aside from Batista's own henchmen, who didn't?
That can never erase or excuse Kennedy's betrayal of those brave fighters.
Who are you guys? You use these made up arguments as if you are telling is something we are missing and that's supposed to make our arguments flawed. Stick to the point when you want to argue.
This is not about Batista. I doubt anyone here wants to defend or excuse him. He made Castro possible, and that alone would irredeemably sink him. His role in Cuban history was at least as much due to Cuban factors as American ones, but again, this is not about him. The first JFK quotation above is a grotesque distortion, fully worthy of a Wayne Smith, and for an American president to say that is beyond appalling. It shows, at a minimum, that JFK didn't have a clue regarding the true Cuban situation, no doubt because he was simply regurgitating what he was being fed by State Department Castrophiles--whose names and activities are documented by someone who was there and very much in the thick of things, US Ambassador to Cuba Earl Smith. Sadly, Smith wound up playing the role of Cassandra.
JFK didn't just criminally betray the Bay of Pigs men; he subsequently essentially guaranteed the permanence of the Castro regime to the Soviets (Khrushchev at the time) in order to get out of the Missile Crisis jam, which JFK's ineptitude and arrogance had largely allowed to happen. All he cared about was his image and his political future; he was perfectly willing to sell Cuba, its people and their future to the Soviets for his own benefit. JFK, to me, is simply DIRT, so please, leave Batista out of this.
That's the only gripe I have with JFK, but besides that he was honestly, beside Reagan, the ONLY true president America has seen. He was looking forward, bringing secrets to the light, putting men on the moon, on the verge of ending the federal reserve, and for that he took a bullet to the neck & another one in the head.
Sorry Felix,
But I don’t see what you see so great about JFK.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s the only one that had the real chance to topple Fidel Castro and his regime in the early days and dropped the ball big time at the Bay of Bays fiasco in a very treacherous act against the Brigade and the Cuban people.
No way that I can say anything good about JKF. I certainly don’t buy his hipper-up image of Camelot.
Now Ronald Wilson Reagan was another story. That was a real President!
JFK was only good for chasing women like Marilyn Monroe, nothing else, period.
That's the thing. Womanizer and fuck-up of the Bay of Pigs, are the only things we can fault him at...yet when it came to the truth. You can look no further. He was actually cleaning up Washington. The Gipper is right up there as my favorite presidents of all-time. Yet, Reagan never freed Cuba either.
forgot to add this gem
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=669336582053&ref=nf
sorry, forgot to post it
Felix,
Yes, by the time Ronald Wilson Reagan took office he could not free Cuba even if he wanted because his hands were tied on the matter by JFK agreement with the Soviets from the 1962 Missile Crisis.
I hope that you have not forgotten about this fact. I don’t understand why you tried to make that point.
Honestly, JFK was a very overrated President if you ask me and as the years go by and more info about his Presidency surfaces, the stronger I feel about it.