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I remember asking dad about Castro when I was about 9 years old. I asked, "Is Castro a good guy or bad?"
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>>> Dad said...he couldn't tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana ...at the time. Dad was in the Army there.
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>>> Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question!
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>>> Ike was president.
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>>> This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba . Our dinner conversation was starkly different than most.
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>>> This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960's. His family was more fortunate than most, as they were able to bring a suitcase...and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary paradise.
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>>> Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn. This is a menu shared with family and friends nationwide...while celebrating the birth of our beloved America ...on the Fourth of July.
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>>> We began with a simple discussion about our country, and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the rulers in Washington .
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>>> But then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was unplanned. But it carried the weight of a freight train. "You know, when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist".
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>>> We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical."
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>>> The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, "You mean just like Barack Obama?"
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>>> He responded, "Yes, just like Barack Obama."
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>>> He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your guns. We all complied."
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>>> I remember my uncle saying after it started; “Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries. He will never come and take our family hardware store!!” But that is exactly what happened. Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And that nice, large four-bedroom home you own...it is now our property also, and...you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house, because others are moving in with you."
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>>> The lesson learned from this discussion, is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office...they can take totally unexpected turns.
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>>> If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society...would be evaporating, just like it did in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960's.
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>>> But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers are not charged with wrong doing by the U.S. Department of Justice...because their crimes are against whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their assets...without due process by the government! Governmental leaders are bribed in full daylight...only to have all investigation of the crimes stifled...by the Attorney General.
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>>> The U.S. borders are over run with crime and illegal activity, and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers...while the innocent are killed and over run. When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed...and threatened as racists and bigots. They are sued by the very administration...entrusted with enforcing the law.
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>>> Without the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution is a sham!! Without the rule of law, our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book...a culture of corruption has replaced honest government.
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>>> The only way this problem will be fixed, is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens who want to be treated equally must come together...and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law...end now!! And yes, it can happen here.
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>>> And...may God save the United States of America !
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>>> *...the least you can do is forward this email. 6 million plus Jews didn't believe it would happen in Germany either!!! If you're a Christian in these United States of America , you're next on the list. The real problem here is, the boy from Cuba did manage to make it to the U.S. We will not have any place to escape to...except death! And, for the most part...even though I'm forwarding this to recipients, probably only 5 or 10 will even read it.
>>> "There's never a wrong time to do the right thing, and never a right time to do the wrong thing."
>>> People think this will never happen in America , but it IS HAPPENING TODAY!!!
I am a Cuban American and I am very worried about the United States of America.
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
Doom porn, yes. I have been out of the US since 2007, before the election of Obama. Things may not have gotten better there and quite likely even gotten worse but I would remind people that may have forgotten, these problems did not start just on Obama's watch.
When I was retiring in 2006 we were concerned with our charter flight that brought us to our work location and back weekly that we were soon going to be mandated to follow TSA requirements to board our required flights. This was already in the works long before Obama. The gun-running to the Mexican crime gangs did not start under Obama either, that was already going on before it got exposed on his watch - and the whole story has not yet come to light.
Americans should do well with paying attention to the direction the country is heading, and they should not be distracted by watching one party's leader and not paying attention to what the other hand is doing - these are both arms of the same organism. The potential problems are from places beyond party politics but most often can be seen prarie-dogging there. Those rabbit holes are inter-connected and go much deeper than that.
Americans seem overly complacent about giving up their individuality in order to see their society conform to rigid societal standards backed by force of law. Before you are all largely heading orderly in the same direction you should ask yourselves, do you really want to go there?
edit on 18-9-2012 by Erongaricuaro because: (no reason given)