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Fidel Castro Resigns
Smordnys s'regrepsA writes "Fidel Castro, the leader of the island nation of Cuba has declined the possibility of keeping his seat as President, after the February 24th National Assembly election. "I neither will aspire to nor will I accept — I repeat — I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief," Castro wrote almost 19 months after a severe illness caused him to hand power temporarily to his brother Raul."
I for one bid farewell to our communist Cuban dictator overlord.
You just got troll'd!
I see a lot of Castro apologetics here. More faith on display than at an evangelical tent revival. Adulation that few Roman Emperors received.
Most telling, are all the stretched-past-breaking comparisons of Castro's regime to America's Democratic Republic.
Methinks they dost project too much.
Because we have here, in the person of Fidel Castro, the perfect exemplar of Socialism.
And his state really did have death camps. It really had no press. It had the midnight door-knocks that meant torture, real fucking torture, and even worse - whole families tortured to death.
Look at Castro's fanboys here on Slashdot. Not a one of them has an honest brain, else they'd realize under Socialism they would be killed for exercising Freedom of Speech. How brave, how insightful and informative they are so safely bitching about America.
They complain that President Bush liberated Iraq so his cronies could make money.
Under Socialism, nobody has anything - except the rulers. No American President has ever even been able to enact such strict cronyism. Not even LBJ, and certainly not President George W. Bush.
Accusation after accusation they have hurled at President George W. Bush. Each and every single accusation is something they themselves support in the person and policies of Castro.
Only by such massive projection are they able to excuse their own hypocrisy.
Only by such massive projection are they able to excuse the torture, the death camps, the deindustrialization, the poverty, the complete stifling of any and all Human Rights, that their brainless devotion to their religion has brought the world.
Only by such massive projection can they ignore the historical facts.
The rest of us know that today is the brightest day the lovely island of Cuba has seen in five decades!