I had an open mind — or maybe I was too tired to argue — when I started to read this interview between "Rick Smith (radio host of United for Progress, a 100% pro-labor and unapologetically progressive voice, heard on WHYL News Talk Radio (960 AM), Carlisle, PA)" and Eastern New Mexico University education professor Doug Morris, who at some point in the recent past had visited Cuba.
I almost couldn't get past the first question and answer, when Morris explained why he went to Cuba:
Another reason for visiting Cuba is to renew one’s inspiration and hope in human possibility.
OK, after I quit rolling my eyes — after all, he is an academic maybe not wise to the real world — I moved onto the next few questions, just to be sure I understood where Morris was coming from.
Morris' confirmed he feels most at home on the extreme fringe of the idiot left, when he said this:
As to Cuba, under the revolution, Cuba has no history of death squads or torture squads, no mass imprisonment, mass kidnapping, and no mass repression. Some people who are referred to in the US as “dissidents” and imprisoned in Cuba would be called “terrorists” if they were operating in the US or in a US client state. In general, those “terrorists” are people who work for the US, are funded through the US Interest Section in Havana (basically CIA headquarters in Cuba), or they are funded by anti-revolution groups in Miami that often have connections to the CIA and thus carry out policies supported by US power. Those people are trying to destroy the Cuban socialist experiment and they are backed by real power, i.e. US power.
If only "terrorists" like Oscar Biscet and Normando Hernandez, with or without our help, were so successful, Morris would have to travel elsewhere to vindicate his idiocy.
You can e-mail Morris at doug.morris@enmu.edu
You can read about Cuba's history of death and torture squads, mass imprisonment, mass kidnapping and mass repression, at Cuba Archive.
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