Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, who next week will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is a man of the greatest character, which makes him one of the castro dictatorship’s greatest enemies.
The dictatorship may have Biscet locked away in one of its dungeons, but after reading what he wrote in a letter smuggled out of prison earlier this year, it is hard to think of Biscet as one of its prisoners. No jail cell can confine the moral force he represents.
It is very difficult for common prisoners to serve a prison sentence; all the more so for a man of peace confined for exercising his right to freedom of thought. Everything has been so excessive and arbitrary that, the tribunal that condemned me did not pronounce sentence until three days after the trial had concluded. At that moment I felt their disloyalty to justice. I am convinced today of the fear they felt when they convicted an innocent man and put him to live with the scum of society. During all these years in prison I have witnessed ignominious things that I cannot go into the details of due to their perversity; acts that threaten the decorous behavior of a civilized society. In spite of the difficult situation, I am not frightened nor will I go back a step in regards to my ideas. I am here by my own free will to condemn and not to retract myself and will serve this unjust sentence until God in the Highest puts an end to it. (emphasis added)
The honoring of Dr. Biscet with the Medal of Freedom represents a potential milestone in elevating the American public’s knowledge and recognition of this great men, and the hundreds, if not thousands, of other political prisoners in fidel castro’s gulag. Each of them is a hero, but Biscet’s story — he is black, he is a doctor, he is anti-abortion, he is committed to the principles of non-violence — belies so many myths about castro and his so-called “revolution.” If it can grab traction in consciousness of the American and international public — and that is a big “if” — Biscet’s story might provide a tipping point in changing what that public thinks about Cuba today, similar to the way Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment did for South Africa in the 1980s.
Learn more about Dr. Biscet at Free-Biscet.org and the Web site for the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights.
How can this pressure continue on the Castro Mafia?
Can we get the U.S. Congress on record on this? Can we push for Congress to introduce a resolution CALLING for the freedom of all the Castro Mafia political prisoners, AND LIST ALL OF THE KNOWN NAMES with pictures (if available)?
How would all of esteemed Democrats and RINOS vote???
The Executive Branch has spoken, now how about the Legislative???
I am not from FLA, so how about you FLA residents REQUESTING our C/A reps to do this bidding???
Rep. Illena Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., recommended Biscet for the honor.
Gee, I wonder what those ever-so-righteous and socially conscious black political figures and celebrities will say about this (assuming they even bother to acknowledge it).
Of course, none of them has ever gone through anything comparable to Dr. Biscet’s past and current ordeals, so maybe they just can’t relate. Or maybe he’s not “black enough” for them, or rather, not sufficiently leftish. I mean, if Bush is honoring him, surely there’s gotta be something wrong with him, right?
Well, perhaps we should wait and see. Oh, Oprah, look over here, honey!