Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Fidel Castro has been a great fighter against Racism and Poverty in Cuba. Before his seat in power, there were only two classes: The extremely rich and the extremely poor. All of the rich were white hispanic, while most of the poor were black Cubans or any other minority.
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Fidel Castro has alleviated racism in economy, because now everyone gets paid around the same amount of $$$. Not to mention the government in Cuba now provides every family with thier own cars.
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Education is free, Universities are free even under the economic strain that Cuba is undergoing due to United States' and many other nations's embargos.
Originall posted by Lord Urizen
WAtch more interviews, see more point of views. You are only hearing the points of views of people who dislike Castro due to the fact that they can't strike it "rich" in his country, and probably from Americans who just don't like him for his form of government.
Urizen I'm not denying that Castro has helped Cuba... but I suggest you do some more research on the man. You might find some things that you will not like.
Some examples...
Fidel Castro's regime is guilty of numerous document-able crimes stretching from the jungles of Peru to the deserts of Ethiopia. Documented reports exist of Cuban troops in cahoots with the Ethiopian government denying food to starving Ethiopians because of their political ideology. In Latin America, Castro funded guerrilla groups throughout the hemisphere generating terror and fear for decades.
Castro formed Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) which operate on almost every block in Cuba. Spying on neighbors and reporting back to the regime. Negative reports can land one in jail. Talking to foreigners invites questioning into your loyalty to the regime. Large numbers of individuals are incarcerated in Castro's prisons for political crimes ranging from speaking against the regime to trying to leave the island.
In June 1991 at a meeting between Fidel Castro and several members of various communist organizations, it was agreed to set up the infamous Rapid Response Brigades. Their principle aim is to "defend the country, the Revolution and Socialism in all circumstances, by confronting and liquidating any sign of counterrevolution or crime." Trying to leave Cuba without government sanction is a criminal offense punishable by prison. Due to this Cubans are unable to build larger more seaworthy crafts, and resort to inner tubes, and in some cases fiberglass cannisters in search of freedom.
The Castro regime's response to the AIDS crisis has been mandatory nation-wide testing with forced incarceration for anyone who tested positive for the HIV virus. In addition, Castro has had a long tradition of imprisoning homosexuals and transsexuals as "undesirables."
Originally posted by Jonathan Mark
Urizen I'm not denying that Castro has helped Cuba... but I suggest you do some more research on the man. You might find some things that you will not like.Some examples...
Fidel Castro's regime is guilty of numerous document-able crimes stretching from the jungles of Peru to the deserts of Ethiopia. Documented reports exist of Cuban troops in cahoots with the Ethiopian government denying food to starving Ethiopians because of their political ideology. In Latin America, Castro funded guerrilla groups throughout the hemisphere generating terror and fear for decades.
Castro formed Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) which operate on almost every block in Cuba. Spying on neighbors and reporting back to the regime. Negative reports can land one in jail. Talking to foreigners invites questioning into your loyalty to the regime. Large numbers of individuals are incarcerated in Castro's prisons for political crimes ranging from speaking against the regime to trying to leave the island.
In June 1991 at a meeting between Fidel Castro and several members of various communist organizations, it was agreed to set up the infamous Rapid Response Brigades. Their principle aim is to "defend the country, the Revolution and Socialism in all circumstances, by confronting and liquidating any sign of counterrevolution or crime." Trying to leave Cuba without government sanction is a criminal offense punishable by prison. Due to this Cubans are unable to build larger more seaworthy crafts, and resort to inner tubes, and in some cases fiberglass cannisters in search of freedom.
The Castro regime's response to the AIDS crisis has been mandatory nation-wide testing with forced incarceration for anyone who tested positive for the HIV virus. In addition, Castro has had a long tradition of imprisoning homosexuals and transsexuals as "undesirables."
Several states in the world are guilty of various crimes. The Castro-governments seem no worse than other - socalled democratic states' crimes...
Originally posted by Jonathan Mark
One of his few good points...First of all I oppose any government that sets the wages for employees, that's the job of the employer not the government. If someone didn't get a good education or do well in school so that he could get a good job, oh well that doesn't mean that everyone should be force to earn the same wage. Some people work harder than others to earn good grades and succeed in life and they should not be forced to earn the same wage as those who fail. Yes I can agree that people shouldn't be paid lower wages due to race, but that's not the point I'm making here. In Cuba everyone makes the same wage no matter what they do... and that is just idiotic. Second of all I suggest you learn about economics. Those free cars? Pfft, ever heard of taxes?
Again ever heard of taxes Urizen? Do you have any understanding of economics? Nothing is free. All of that costs his citizenry in taxes (nevermind the inefficiency and pure waste of having the government run all those things).
Urizen I'm not denying that Castro has helped Cuba... but I suggest you do some more research on the man. You might find some things that you will not like.
Some examples...
Fidel Castro's regime is guilty of numerous document-able crimes stretching from the jungles of Peru to the deserts of Ethiopia. Documented reports exist of Cuban troops in cahoots with the Ethiopian government denying food to starving Ethiopians because of their political ideology. In Latin America, Castro funded guerrilla groups throughout the hemisphere generating terror and fear for decades.
Castro formed Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) which operate on almost every block in Cuba. Spying on neighbors and reporting back to the regime. Negative reports can land one in jail. Talking to foreigners invites questioning into your loyalty to the regime. Large numbers of individuals are incarcerated in Castro's prisons for political crimes ranging from speaking against the regime to trying to leave the island.
In June 1991 at a meeting between Fidel Castro and several members of various communist organizations, it was agreed to set up the infamous Rapid Response Brigades. Their principle aim is to "defend the country, the Revolution and Socialism in all circumstances, by confronting and liquidating any sign of counterrevolution or crime." Trying to leave Cuba without government sanction is a criminal offense punishable by prison. Due to this Cubans are unable to build larger more seaworthy crafts, and resort to inner tubes, and in some cases fiberglass cannisters in search of freedom.
The Castro regime's response to the AIDS crisis has been mandatory nation-wide testing with forced incarceration for anyone who tested positive for the HIV virus. In addition, Castro has had a long tradition of imprisoning homosexuals and transsexuals as "undesirables."
Johnathan I am not actually defending him...read back...El Nino gave ne the "wtf" look when I mentioned how many Hispanics admire Fidel since he is socialist by many standards.
I couldn't care less about him. To me he is no better than Bush and Cheney.
I am only stating why many hispanics admire him, and mostly those are hispanics who are in limbo between being conservative and liberal, and those are hispanics who also think that homosexuality is evil and all that BS.
I don't agree with them. I was just stating the fact that many hispanics DO like him, and El Nino was questioning my statement.
Originally posted by New Faith
First off, liberals are not anarchists. Anarchy is a totally different breed.Communists, however, is acceptable.
Most of my views as of yet are liberal. However, I can sympathize a lot of the time with the conservative view. I consider mself objective; I will go the way that my concience tells me, not one political party or the other.
No idea can exists without an opposite. Hence, Chaos and Order are supplemental, and rely on each other for survival.
If I had to pick one extreme, I'd pick chaos. The Giver scares the shit out of me.
Anarchists are liberal extremists. Liberal extremists are those who hold liberal ideals but to an extreme so far off that even moderate liberals like myself cannot agree with.
Liberal Extremists ALSO tend to pick one aspect of liberalism and push it to as far as it can possibly be pushed, the way some cults would take ONE aspect of a religion and expand on that alone.
The aspect here is freedom and choice. Freedom of choice taken to the extreme where there are no limits on one's actions. No punishments, no enforced consequences, choice has free reign. This is just as dangerous as Dictatorship, which can be said to be the ultamate in Conseratism ideals.
I would not pick one over the other. We need Chaos and Order.