You waste my time because I have to do research for you that you’re incapable of doing on your own. From Irving Louis Horowitz, “Cuban Communism 1959-1995″ New York: Transaction Publishers, 1995.
p.87:
“It must now be agreed that the argument is critically flawed. The March 1959 decision never happened.”

No matter how much lipstick you put on these DGI pigs, they are still pigs. Thanks hon, I have nothing to do with the CANF. Are you really nuts? Cuba under the constant threat of invasion? Who”‘s stopping Castro from “relaxing control at home”?

Actually, Liebschen, your Cuban companeros are the ones who are trying to wreak havoc all over the world:

http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/19/cuban-espionage-threat-to-the-americas/

And why do you lie in your website about the true nature of the Wasp Network? These guys were no boy scouts.

http://www.america.gov/st/pubs-english/2008/June/20070712120209atlahtnevel0.7962915.html

And if you are so enamored of the Miami Herald, I dare you to print this article on your website:

http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=3710&Month=7&Year=2008

You still haven’t responded to my other points, including why you refuse to champion the cause of political prisoners in Cuba, or why you are so butt-headed in insisting that the Prague Spring was “supported by the CIA,” so you have lost your argument by default.

Visiting rights for two of the wives were denied because they have committed acts of espionage against the U.S., which are grounds for making them ineligible for entry.

Yes, communism has been responsible for millions of deaths in China, the USSR, and Eastern Europe. Why do you write that opposing these murderers is somehow immoral?

You are clueless about what is going on in the world, a kind of Sarah Palin of the far Left with your ridiculous “it’s all a CIA plot” paranoia. You still haven’t answered my request for hard facts about “CIA support for the Prague Spring” because you simply have no facts. If you had the slightest morality, you would simply graciously admit you didn’t know a thing that you were talking about. YOU are truly the one who sees the world as black and white, so don’t accuse others of that sin!

How many people were killed by your Cuban companeros because of the “armed struggle” against “capitalist imperialism”?

Wenn Du kann nicht auf Englische schreiben, dann bitte schreib auf Deutsch!

First of all: I am no “DKP-Genossin”. and I saw the film, “Das Leben der anderen”. Sorry for my poor English, but you can’t divide living into black and white: on one side the evil communists and on the other the good people. – Well, I am grown up and living still in Western Germany experiencing the local reality, for instance the reduction of social achievements after the Capitalism has won, learning by personal meetings with former citizens of the GDR, as well as DKP members living in Western Germany and learning by a lot of literature about former “Headquarters of the CIA” in Germany and elsewhere. Moreover, I don’t want to make conversation nor discuss with somebody aggressively defending prejudices and misinformations.
The reason for my comment was the following:
As it seems to me, the U.S. government cannot regard humanitarian reasons or international agreements, as for instance, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, nor their own constitution, if it comes to Cuba.
Apart from that, Cuba complaint in 1999 3.478 dead people and 2.099 invalid people because of the terrorist attacks coming from U.S. territory carried out mainly by exile Cubans. That was why, the Cuban Five came into the USA – unarmed risking their lives, saving lives, not only those of their compatriots but also those of U.S. citizens.

There is an U.S. law regarding the “defence of necessity”, but the U.S. government does not want to apply it to those “Cuban Spies” while neglecting the evidences, obviously, just because of revanchism and so called anti communism.
They rather punished them repeatedly by arbitrary isolation confinements amounting to torture for overall 18 months and additionally, they still deny visitng rights for two wives of the Five, which is another kind of psychological torture, while neglecting their own constitution referring the protection of families, again. (s. http://www.freethefive.org )

Apart from that: the first Christians were communist too, they condemned greed like Jesus did and wanted to share everything with each other.
The Bush administration referred repeatedly to Christian believes, however, “You shall recognize them at their fruits.”, s. Matth. 7,16.

Sincerely to all of you
honestly seeking for truth, peace and justice
those of “good will”
Josie

You also write utter nonsense about the cinco companeros. They were spies, plain and simply, sent by the DGI on a mission to the U.S called La Red Avispa.
http://canf.org/2005/1es/historia/la-red-avispa-en-estados-unidos.htm

I’d like to ask you what would happen to CIA spies sent to Cuba. They wouldn’t have to worry about visits by their spouses because they would have been sent to the wall without further ado. If you really cared about Cubans, you would direct your efforts to securing the freedom of Cubans who were sentenced to long prison terms because they dared to criticize El Barbudo or to demand freedoms in their country. And please, none of this scheiße about “they’re all CIA agents.”
http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/Group56.html

AI has written extensively about the plight of prisoners of conscience in Cuba.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGUSA20080317005

If you haven’t seen it already, I suggest you watch “Das Leben Der Anderen,” which neatly sums up the hypocrisy of the Communist paradise which existed behind the Mauer in the “DDR.”

The whole issue is a duopoly red herring. First, while I do have an issue with you’re citing Obama’s age (it seems pedantic), I do think this is revisionist history. Judge the Weathermen and Ayers on their own “merits” which have absolutely nothing to do with Obama (there’s probably 6 degrees of separation between most of us and Adolf Hitler).

Obama is, generally speaking a conservative Democrat. Ayers is whatever he’s become in the interim of the early 70′s and now (who cares other than the phony media and their mindless pundants and the Republican say-anything-got-to-get-elected-machine?).

The whole issue is in accord with Obama being a socialist; and the equally ludicrous notion that pouring money into Wall Street is corporate socialism – that is an oxymoron which has nothing to do with socialism any more than poverty stricken rich people do.

Instead of giving socialism a bad name by labeling Obama one, let’s just call Obama for what he is – a, perhaps, soon to be killer in the name of her majesties Manifest Destiny. And if not him the irksome McCain.

The real issues are easy for most busy and uncomplicated people to figure out. As the song says: We don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.”

It is the Barack talking point, it is not true. Here are bombings Weather carried out via Third Estate:

Marin County Courthouse bombed October 8, 1970 (Barack is nine)
Traffic-court building in Queens bombed October 10, 1970
Harvard Center for International Affairs is bombed October 14, 1970
US Capitol building bombing March 1, 1971
Office of California Prisons is bombed August 29, 1971 (when Barack is ten)
NY Dept of Corrections (Albany, NY) is bombed September 17, 1971
MIT bombed October 15, 1971
Pentagon bombing comes in here on May 19, 1972
103rd NYC Police Precinct bombed May 18, 1973 (Barack is now eleven)
ITT NY headquarters is bombed September 28, 1973 (Barack is twelve)
San Francisco Dept of Health, Education and Welfare is bombed March 6, 1974
Office of Calif Attorney General bombed May 31, 1974
Pittsburgh headquarters of Gulf Oil bombed June 17, 1974
Anaconda Corp bombed September 11, 1974 (Barack is thirteen)
The State Dept is bombed January 29, 1975
NY’s Banco de Ponce is bombed June 16, 1975
Kennecott Corporation is bombed September 1975 (Barack is fourteen)

Also not true is that Weather was about ending the Vietnam War. Weather was about revolutionary change, revolutionary struggle. It is appalling to see so many on the left lie about what Weather stood for in order to elect Barack. It’s like stripping Emma Goldman of her history or watering her down. Accomplishments are accomplishments and history is history.

I recall when ex-radical Ronald Radosh had his “The Rosenberg File: A search for the truth” published, in 1983–based largely on FBI sources–I was writing for In These Times from Denmark and Central America. I was appalled when editor James Weinstein wrote an editorial applauding the book’s finding that they were, indeed, “guilty” and thus traitors. He wrote, to the effect, that he had long thought they were but had protested the sentence of death, that is, murder. He was relieved now that the “truth” was out and he no longer had to feel any sense of support–something to that effect; my memory after 25 years fails me. But I clearly remember my anger and that I wrote to him in distress of his position and for applauding the turn-coat radical Radosh. I stopped writing for ITT, albeit it was one of very few more-decent-than not publications on the left.

In solidarity, Ron

Communism died in Prague in 1968. After the repression of the Prague Spring, everybody, all over Europe, east and west, and most of all the young, my generation, realised that communism was just another form of fascism. Once the young turn their backs on anything, it is condemned to die of old age. Gorby was 37 in 1968. Thus, nearly 20 years before he came to power, Gorbachev and his generation realised that communism was a failure.

The communist attempt to hijack the Portuguese revolution, which was ultimately blocked by the Catholic Church, gave people the idea as to how to overthrow the communist dictatorships and the obvious place to strike was the country where the Church was strongest: Poland!

The supposed “stability”, i.e. the inability to evolve within the parameters of the system, was the very factor that brought about the downfall of the system! Civil society wanted change. The “end of history” mentality of the system didn’t allow for change. Ergo, the system had to go!

The great blessing of all this is that communism was capitalism’s “crutch”. With communism gone, the same “end of history” mentality and its concomitant incapacity to adapt is bringing down US-dominated globalised, financialised capitalism. In its place, we in Europe at least will probably get the social democracy which comes naturally to most Europeans (including Gorbachev!).