Ted Turner's lies about Cuba
By Humberto Fontova
Last week during a FoxNews interview with Bill O'Reilly, Ted Turner, who
founded what has become (in their own words) "the world's largest cable
news network "claimed that Fidel Castro's Stalinist regime has never
killed anyone.
O'REILLY: Fidel Castro, do you admire the man?
TURNER: Yes.
O'REILLY: Now he has murdered people. He's imprisoned people. There
are political prisoners now. He won't let his people use the Internet.
Nobody can use that. And you admire the guy?
TURNER: Well, I admire certain things about him. He's trained a lot
of doctors, and they've got one of the best educational systems in the
developing world. And you know, he's still popular with a lot of people
down there. ..
REILLY: But he's a killer. He's a killer. He's a guy who...
TURNER: But that has never, to my knowledge, that's never been
proven. I mean...
O'REILLY: He's executed political prisoners. I mean, he enslaves
people who don't see it the way he sees it. Come on. He runs a
dictatorship.
For the record in 1958 ( year before Castro took over) Cuba had a higher
standard of living than Ireland and Austria, almost double Spain and
Japan's per capita income, more doctors and dentists per capita than
Britain, and lower infant mortality than France and Germany - the
13th-lowest in the world, in fact. Today, Cuba's infant-mortality rate -
despite the hemisphere's highest abortion rate, which skews this figure
downward - is 43th from the top.
So, relative to the rest of the world, Cuba's health care has worsened
under Castro, and a nation with a formerly massive influx of European
immigrants needs machine guns, water cannons and tiger sharks to keep
its people from fleeing, while half-starved Haitians a short 60 miles
away turn up their noses at any thought of emigrating to Cuba.
But let's get to the heart of the matter. Ted Turner is demonstratively
a brilliant businessman. Back in 1997 when CNN craved a Havana Bureau,
his sales pitch was not particularly subtle: "Castro is one helluva
guy!" he gushed to a capacity crowd at Harvard Law School during a
speech. "You people would like him! Most people in Cuba like him."
Within weeks CNN was granted its coveted Havana Bureau, the first ever
granted by Castro to a foreign network. By the way, two years ago that
CNN bureau's longtime reporter, Lucia Newman, jumped over to Al-Jazeera.
A "lateral career move," I think they call this.
To put it bluntly: Ted Turner is very far from a space-cadet. He cannot
possibly believe what he said on the O'Reilly Factor. The Castro
regime's own henchmen have never claimed anything so transparently
preposterous-no Communists ever have. Indeed, like Al Qaeda generations
later, terror in the form of mass murder (often public) , was always key
to the Communist quest and maintenance of power. Communists have always
wanted this to be known, as a means to cow opposition.
"We will make our hearts cruel, hard, and immovable ... we will not
quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood. Without mercy, without
sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of thousands; let them drown
themselves in their own blood! Let there be floods of the blood of the
bourgeois - more blood, as much as possible." Felix Dzerzhinsky, the
head of the Soviet Cheka in 1918:
"Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any
enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the
acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I
prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant
proletariat with a bestial howl!" Ernesto Guevara from the book that
became the Motorcycle Diaries.
"We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted.
Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is
to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new
order of life. We judge quickly." V.I Lenin.
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.
These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!
And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure
hate. We execute from revolutionary conviction!" Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
"Executions? Certainly we execute!And we will CONTINUE executing as
long as it is necessary! This is a war to the DEATH against the
revolution's enemies!" Che Guevara while addressing the U.N. General
Assembly on December 9, 1964.
According to the Black Book of Communism, published in Paris, 14,000 men
and boys were executed in Cuba by that stage -- the equivalent, given
the relative populations, of over 3 million executions in the U.S. "VIVA
CHE! VIVA FIDEL!" bellowed Jesse Jackson while arm in arm with the
agent of that appalling bloodbath (Fidel Castro) at the University of
Havana in 1984. Jesse Jackson, by the way, wrote a book condemning
capital punishment.
Please note: all of Guevara's above quotes are found in the
sadist/coward's (alas, the "acrid odor of gunpowder and blood" never
reached Guevara's nostril from actual combat. It always came from the
close-range murder of bound, gagged and blindfolded men) own diaries.
Some of these diaries were fashioned into a movie 4 years ago by Robert
Redford (The Motorcycle Diaries); Others provided the screenplay for the
4 ½ hour "epic hagiography" (as described by The New York Times)
directed by Stephen Soderbergh and starring Benicio Del Toro titled
"Che," and released stateside just last week.
The above-mentioned directors and producers profess rigid fidelity to
Che's complete diaries. But you will search these movies in utter vain
for these dramatic soundbites, much less their much more cinematically
dramatic fulfillment.
When Che Guevara entered the Cuban city of Santa Clara during the
anti-Batista skirmishing he promptly ordered the firing squad murder of
dozens of Batista "war-criminals." A "battle" that added up to six
casualties on both sides , but which Soderbergh and Del Toro-mindlessly
sycophantic to their Castroite sources--depict as a Caribbean
Stalingrad/Iwo Jima, somehow produced scores of war criminals on one
side! The New York Times, who "reported" on this "battle" as it "raged,"
didn't bother to look into this peculiar numerical discrepancy.
The Cuban Stalinists televised some of their Santa Clara atrocities for
essentially the same reason Al Qaeda televised Nick Berg's be-heading.
Please click here, Mr Turner, for stark proof of what Bill O'Reilly was
telling you on his show.
This valiant man, Col. Cornelio Rojas, refused a blindfold and walked to
his execution (murder , actually, Che Guevara didn't even bother with
one of his bogus trials) unescorted. Compare Senor Rojas death to
Guevara's capture--'Don't shoot!" whimpered the quaking "guerrilla".
"I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"
Blanco Rojas, Senor Rojas wife of forty years, died of a heart arttack
while watching her husband's Che-ordered murder on Cuban national TV.
Cornelio Rojas 17 year old nephew , Pedro, volunteered for what came to
be known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. After fighting to his last bullet
(and denied more by JFK's Best and Brightest) the defenseless Pedro was
murdered in cold blood by a suddenly blustering and sneering Communist
who served until recently as Cuba's "Minister of tourism," Osmany
Cienfuegos.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/ted_turners_lies_about_cuba.html
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