STRONG FEELINGS, STRONG LANGUAGE
But not foul language. I reserve that for my computer. The computer can't answer back, but it fights back and it fights dirty. In fact, it does not fight back as much as it always strikes first. That's why I swear at it.

However, you don't find those words in my Blogs. They're strictly reserved for the computer, but they're nowhere on my hard drive.

I am, though, not timid about expressing my opinions about some people, especially those Americans who stand on foreign soil, in countries that do not recognize basic human rights and indeed, have a record of violations and executions that are beyond the pale and there attack U.S. policies.

Free speech, the right of free speech? Certainly. They have that right right here in the U.S. But they choose to exercise it in a foreign country where it is forbidden to the ordinary citizens, such as in Cuba or VietNam, where contrary views can put the citizens of that country in prison for years, if not life, or earn them an early date with the executioner.

Sure, I can remember hearing Lord Haw Haw broadcast during W.W. II. And, I heard re-broadcasts of Axis Sally. They faced the Courts at the end of the war.

But, for example, I've carefully followed and studied the history of the revolution and Fidel Castro since he lived in the mountains, and from thjere made raids on government installations when the dictator, Fulgencio Batista, was in control.

I say if Batista was bad for Cuba, that Fidel Castro has been 100 times worse for Cuba. He has literally destroyed the economy and brought almost everyone, except for his favored cronies, down to poverty level. He has destroyed the middle class, as well as the upper class, and those he did not execute live in fear, as most of the population does there today. It is an all pervasive fear, as anyone who has lived under the communist system there will testify to.

And my reasoning goes: that if Americans either make speeches in favor of Fidel's government, or befriend or praise him, that they are against the Cuban people. When almost two million people have fled a country, and the police arrest and imprison anyone who tries to leave that country, or who criticizes either the Holy of Holies, the ultimate leader, or the government, then something is seriously wrong.

I venture to say that if the gates were open, that in short order the country would be almost empty, that around 75% of the population would choose freedom on a foreign soil over serving Fidel for the rest of their natural lives in Cuba, in a form of slavery as it exists there.

Ahhh, you might say, "Howard sees communists everywhere!" No, I see them where they are, in Cuba, and now in Venezuela, and in Peru, and slowly taking power in South America. Freedom requires eternal vigilance, and it requires that vigilance in every single country in the world. If we value our freedom, then we must always be alert, because someone is always plotting to take it away from you if you don't pay close attention to politics.

Fidel Castro succeeded in taking freedom away from the Cuban people by telling them he was going to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in order to free them from that dictatorship, but then he imposed his own murderous dictatorship upon them. He has been there through nine American presidents, and I ask, "How would we like to have an American president steal our government and rule over us with his own set of laws for 45 years?".

Therefore, I detest those who lend support to Fidel Castro, the leading executioner in the western hemisphere.

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