Life in a totalitarian society: A thought experiment
Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:
Life in a totalitarian society: A thought experiment
Empathy: n. 1. Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.
Mother and Son
A thought experiment.You are a human rights defender in a totalitarian country. You are also a mother, a wife, and a sister.
You have a grown son who his entire life has been mentally challenged but has a love for working on mechanical things.One day secret policemen come to you and demand that you become an informant spying on other members of the human rights group of which you are a member. You reject their offer saying that you will not be subjected to blackmail.
They warn you that your son will pay.
Three days later he is arrested and held in custody for nine months and then subjected to a show trial and given a 12 year prison sentence.
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Tragically, the horror story that you describe, Alberto, did not happen in East Timor, Apartheid South Africa, Haiti, the Shah's Iran, or horrors of horrors, Pinochet's Chile, so nothing will happen. The travesty will go unchecked by the mainstream media that is more interested in keeping their Havana bureaus open. What's more, Cuba experts people like Phil Peters, Saladrigas and that hideous woman {I forget her name} will create a smokescreen if necessary.
Rayarena: Our day will come. Truth will out.
The people behind this sort of infamy, both those who direct it and those who carry it out, are not Martians or mutants or foreign mercenaries—they’re Cubans, and they’re not rare, isolated cases. Cuba is crawling with all sorts of human scum, who are so heavily contaminated or infected that putting them in a democratic setting will NOT cleanse them or make them right. What’s to be done with or about them? They won’t disappear; they won’t magically reform (though they may certainly fake it), and they will continue to be carriers of disease and dysfunction. They are the rotten, poisoned fruit that Castro, Inc. has assiduously nurtured and encouraged for over fifty years, and they WILL be an issue, a very serious issue, probably as long as they live.