The latest in counter-revolutionary attire
Yoani Sanchez, donning her "DON'T BEAT ME, I'M JUST A BLOGGER" shirt.
Update: Thank you, Glenn, and welcome Instapundit readers! If you arent familiar with the young lady in the picture, her name is Yoani Sanchez and she blogs from Havana, Cuba. Last Friday, Cuban State Security picked her and two fellow bloggers up while on their way to a non-violence march in Havana. They were harassed, beaten and threatened, simply for expressing themselves via their blogs. And yet the three maintain the courage and steadfastness to not allow the castro regime to silence their voices or control their thoughts.
Update: Welcome Daily Pundit Readers!
UPDATE 3:23 EST: Despite the harassment and the physical assault and injuries, Yoani writes today:
Shadow Beings
My relationship with the movies has always been from the seats in the shadow of a room where you can hear the sound of an old projector. It kept on like this until I started to live in my own movie, a type of thriller of the pursuers and the pursued, where it is up to me to escape and hide. The reason for this sudden change from spectator to protagonist has been this blog, located in this wide space—so little touched by celluloid—that is the Internet. I woke up two years ago with the desire to write the true script of my days, and not the rosy comedy they show in the official newspapers. I went, then, from watching movies to inhabiting one.
I have my doubts whether some day I’ll see the curtain come down and be able to leave the movie theater alive. The long film that we have been living for decades in Cuba does not seem to be close to the point where the credits are shown and the screen goes blank. However, the spectators are no longer interested in the interminable filmstrip shown by the authorized projectionists. Rather, they seem captivated by the vision of those who create a blog, a blank page where they record the questions, the frustrations and the joys of citizens.
Believing myself Kubrick or Tarantino, I have begun to post a testimony of these creatures who watch and harass us. Beings from the shadows who, like vampires, feed on our human happiness and inoculate us with terror through punches, threats and blackmail. Individuals trained in coercion who could not foresee their conversion into hunters who are hunted, faces trapped on camera, mobile phones, or in the curious retina of a citizen. Accustomed to gathering evidence for this dossier about each of us kept in some drawer, in some office, now they are surprised that we make an inventory of their gestures, their eyes, a meticulous record of their abuses.
There are very few, if any, bloggers in this world with the intestinal fortitude to get in the face of his or her oppressors such as Yoani has done in the photos above. Remember folks, the men and woman shown in these pictures have not only been surveilling and following her around and harassing her and physically assaulting Yoani, but the are Violence Professionals, bought and paid for by the castro regime, most assuredly trained by other violence professionals that were KGB and Stasi educated.
H/T Marc.
[...] The latest in counter-revolutionary attire | Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded di... Last Friday, Cuban State Security picked her and two fellow bloggers up while on their way to a non-violence march in Havana. They were harassed, beaten and threatened, simply for expressing themselves via their blogs. And yet the three maintain the courage and steadfastness to not allow the castro regime to silence their voices or control their thoughts. [...]
We will need them soon in English as well.
Lazaro,
LOL. Too true.
Small note--Instapundit is different from Daily Pundit; you should be thanking Bill Quick, not Glenn Reynolds.
Eddy,
Ive been blogging long enough to know both bloggers. At the time of the update, only Glenn Reynolds had picked up the story.
Oh man I love it! Go after those anal puss licking douche bag milkshakes! I want to see more like this. Abajo los Chivatos y los abusadores!
"Go where the fear is born", says this brave woman Yoani. What an inspiration she is.
Isn't she brilliantly employing the tactic of making the hunter become the hunted?
Vietnam era pilots survived repeated cheapshot commie SAM missile attacks by turning and flying straight at the rising projectiles. This blinded the missiles to the aircraft's jet exhaust and thus saved both plane and pilot.
Admiral Nelson told his captains to do the same thing, forget ornate tactics, go straight at them.
Cowards to the end, they become instantly frightened and make stupid mistakes which often become their downfall.
As others above note, we'll shortly need those T-Shirts in English.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasoviet Key, Florida
12 November, 2009
Thank you, Yoani, for putting the faces of these violence professionals on the net, for all the world to see.
Cops call these faces, 'hinky'. They're the faces you see on mug shots. Though some may appear to be sly, others weak, some treacherous, others belligerent, they all look hinky.
And they're all over the net.
Insects hate light. Light scatters them, makes them behave stupidly, and ultimately shrivels them up and blows them and their tyrant bosses away in the wind, as does a hot desert breeze to sunbaked jackal droppings.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasoviet Key, Florida
12 November, 2009
After the fall of Machado in 1933 and the fall of Batista in 1959, people like these chivatos were subjected to "popular justice" by street mobs.
Alas, after half a century of cowardice, craven bootlickery, and rampant swinishness by Cuban Castroites --we will need several MILLION more such pictures for gen-you-wine Nuremberg-style justice on the day of the glorious sunrise.
"PAREDON!-Paredon!-Paredon!"
"Yoani, Darsi, Antunez, Seguro!--dale a los esbirros Castrista duro!!!'
We surely expect the cameras to be as ubiquitous as when Batista fell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6aH4EiQ_Q
And we surely, surely SURELY(!!!) expect the international MSM to be as supportive of the justice-seekers against Cuban Stalinism as they were against Cuban Batista-ism...no question about it!
Keep shining the light on these vipers, Yoani - keep exposing them. You are creating hard evidence for the civil rights trials of the future.
Wow! That Yoani is a smart [and brave] cookie! She's also brilliant. I hope that those esbirros have access to the internet and see their mugs there, so that they can quake a little bit more thinking of future reprisals.