“We want to advise you that you have transgressed the limits of tolerance…”
A group of dissident Cuban bloggers has been planning a gathering for December 6. Fidel Castro and his thugs are not happy.
Over the past few weeks, Michael Moore’s dream paradise has been slowly tightening its vice grip to silence the bloggers. Over the 48 hours, two bloggers have been summoned by police.
Ernesto Hernández Busto e-mailed me this morning:
We would like to bring to your attention some recent facts that we have not seen mentioned in the international press:
—Yesterday, the renowned Cuban Blogger, Yoani Sanchez (Generación Y) was summoned by the Cuban Department of Interior which explicitly warned her against conducting an event for independent bloggers that she was preparing for December 6.
—Today, Cuban independent blogger Claudia Cadelo (Octavo cerco) has been summoned by the Cuban police for the same reason.
—On November 13, the Gaceta Oficial of the Republic of Cuba published the following as a warning to internet providers. “The regulations for the suppliers of services of public access to the Internet,” from Resolution No. 179/2008 of the Ministry of Computer Science and Communications. The resolution states, that providers have the obligation to “adopt the measures necessary to prevent the access to sites whose contents are opposite to the nations social interest, good morals or customs.”
In a ridiculous attempt to censor the incipient Cuban blogging movement, this resolution, signed by Minister Ramiro Valdés, establishes the order to prohibit “the use of applications that affect the integrity or security of the State”.
My friends at Babalu blog have translated Yoani’s account of her reprimand from two Interior ministry bureaucrats. An excerpt:
We want to advise you that you have transgressed the limits of tolerance in your closeness and contact with elements of the counterrevolution. This disqualifies you totally to conduct dialogue with Cuban authorities.
The activity scheduled for the next few days cannot take place.
We, for our part, will take all measures and will lodge the pertinent charges and take the necessary actions. This event- in these moments which the nation is living, recuperating from two hurricanes- will not be permitted.
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Maybe Sean Penn can mediate.
Welcome to the future under Barkey, Reid, and Pelosi.
Of course, the useless Drive-bys will completely ignore this.
It is simply a preview of the “fairness” doctrine.
Micheal Moore: You say that like its a bad thing.
Michael Moore: But they have healthcare for everyone.
* - Quaility of said healthcare depends on your status in the party.
That’s so vague, so broad and so overreaching that one can be in violation and not even know it. Yes, I know they are political dissidents but sheesh.
I read a lenghty article by Sean Penn the other day absolutely gushing about Chavez and Castro, their magnetic personalities, commitement to justice blah, blah, blah… I try to ignore him as much as possible so and used to think he was just a useful idiot but the truth is far worse than I had imagined possible. He is completely blinded by leftist rhetoric and sides 100% with those committed to stamping out liberty for the common man. I’m sure he would classify these bloggers as enemies of the people that need a couple years of hard labor to help reducate them so they can better feel the suffering of the masses. The man is filth and deserves to live out is life in one of these workers paradise (as a worker, not sipping whisky with the elites.)
Is this from the new fairness doctrine regulations?
Yoani Sanchez is a very brave person–like most of the Cuban People. Her blog can be read in English and other languages if your Spanish is not adequate. She would walk up to the devil himself and laugh in his face–and tell him to go to Heaven!
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The U.S.A. really made a deal with the devil when John Kennedy promised Russia to leave Fidel Castro in power. Communism destroyed what should be a rich country–equal poverty for all is the rule now. Yoani details the lack of almost everything–NADA DE NADA–and the yearning for political freedom in Cuba. Her post on the desire for a real election is probably the straw that is bringing on the wrath of the dictator.
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Let’s hear it for communism and socialism–bringing poverty and fear to all except the ruling class. The U.S.S.A. lefties want to bring this horror to our country.
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John Bibb
sonofdy said:
True.
True. The reality is that it will not be healthcare for all, it will be healthcare only for those who submit to the Democrat[ic Socialist] Party. Those who do not submit to the party leadership need not apply for any medical procedure…you’ll be ignored if you need medical care.
For those with faith to believe it, Jesus offers a different healthcare plan.
There is talk in Australia about limiting the internet. They’re trying to use pornography as the wedge issue. Be on guard folks.
An absence of criticism of a communist regime? You don’t say.
I wonder if any of Castro’s supporters ever shed a tear for the two American pilots whose airplanes were shot down by Castro’s army (with Soviet antiaircraft) and were murdered when they parachuted into the ocean. They were in the water swimming and clinging to life when Castro’s goons went out on a boat and executed them. It is now 45 years later and still no apology from Castro, no apology from Michael Moore or from Sean Penn. But those two dorks would probably defend what happened to the American pilots.
FamilyMan I thought Australia already approved censorship enabled by our good friends at anything but free speech Google. Welcome to the future once our “Dear Leader,” Comrade Pelosi, and Commissar Reid come to power in January with their anything but fairness doctrine.
Red Pill I appreciate your suspicion of the “anointed ones” citizenship, but after all when the hell did the US Constitution every matter to our ruling class, especially the Democrats.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
There goes the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Democratic Underground.
So after the Commie Thugs / Interior Ministry officials come get these bloggers, take them to the ‘reducation camps’ and beat hell out of them, they can get their broken bones set, wounds stitched and appropriate surgery for internal injuries at no charge, right?
Those lucky ducks. Free health care for all!
/sarc
Arise, Larry Flynn!!!
Oh, so the previous revolution was okay but this one’s not?
Rhetorical: What would Che do?
That is always the top concern of revolutionaries once they become the status quo. From Lenin to Hitler you see a great deal of effort quashing counterrevolutions (freedom movements).
Why do liberals praise this cuban hellhole? Do they not realize how silly it all is? Are they saying they want this kind of oppression here (probably—as long as it’s leftwingers oppressing everyone else)
Only if he promised to be the Permanent Mediator and never return.
THE MAN WHO NEVER RETURNED
No, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned. He may ride forever ‘ neath the streets of Boston. He’s the man who never returned ”
Can you spare a nickle?
Oh, but had there been no hurricane, then everything would be just fine?!?!?!?!
Riiiight.
Me thinks they be lernin from b hussein and his St. Louis & Chicago ways.
Michael Moore doesnt understand - in Cuba he would be stood in front of a firing squad.
I read the same Nation article, jsr, and like you I was sickened by the respect and adoration Penn lavished on these two dictators. His worldview quite honestly scares the hell out of me when I think how many shortsighted fools think the same way he does.
Too bad the people of Massachusetts have lost their will to fight. They voted down eliminating the income tax 70% to 30%.
None of them should be shocked that their elected “leaders” are talking about raising both the tolls and the gas tax. (Glad I don’t live in East Boston were soon you will have to pay around $80 a week in tolls just to go to work and back each day.)
So what’s the market like for software engineers in Texas these days?
Sean Penn comes from Communist parents who claimed they we Brave Democrats for standing up while being accused of being Communist (CPUSA he).
Sean Penn himself contributes to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence yest hold a Concealed Carry Permit from Los Angeles County and carries a 9 mm Glock and .38-caliber Smith & Wesson. How did Sean Penn, the Celebrity, get a Concealed Carry Permit in one of the most restrictive counties in Kalifornia?
Odd Place Kalifornia. In one six year period San Francisco County issued two Conceal Carry Permits-an incoming police Chief not yet sworn in and Senator Diane Feinstein. That would be Diane Feinstein of the Assault Weapon Ban.
Sean Penn, Senator Feinstein and these Liberal Elites sure want us to BE like Cuba.With passage of the Fairness Doctrine we shall hear Over the 48 hours, two bloggers have been summoned by police.
That is who Liberal are.
Remember Ruby Ridge-Lock & Load.
Spelling counts, Michelle.
It’s “vise” grip, not “vice” grip.