Friday, May 18, 2007

Contrasts

Contrasts

Over the past year I have had the pleasure of working with a bunch of great Cubans and other freedom fighters. At the same time I have been exposed to some people who are incredibly greedy and ignorant. This collection of incomplete people includes Raul Castro, his junta, his dead brother and their supporters like the socialist government of Spain. My friends are incredibly enlightened, generous and dedicated to human liberty. They stand out in stark contrast to the just mentioned collection of selfish thieves. These crooks have had their way in Cuba since 1959 and what have they done with this time? They have raped both the land and the people of Cuba. First the Soviets propped up the Castro boys. Now the Spanish are filling that role. But the Spanish should remember that when you lay down with dogs you get fleas. Life takes from the taker and gives to the giver. The more you give the more you get. But the more you take the more you are going to lose.

Here is the reality. The socialist model adopted in 1959 is a colossal failure everywhere it has been tried and will surely flop completely in the very near future in Cuba. That is not in doubt. The regime WILL fall in the very near future and I expect the pent up anger that is building will explode into rage. After the dust settles I expect Cubans to seize ALL Spanish properties and reclaim them as reperations for slavery. Also, if any entity currently doing business with the Castro boys illegal government wants back into Cuba then they should have to pay each former employee a minimum of $30,000 for each and every year of slavery. The Spanish and others should know that as their time of exploitation of the Cuban people gets smaller - their bill is growing larger. We will be in Havana soon and this is assured - the first thing we're going to do is arrest every foreigner in the country doing business or pleasure, deliver them to the airport and throw them out of the country for good. Maybe the Cuban people, known for their generosity and forgiving nature, will let you back in one day. But I expect there will be a steep fine involved.

To sum up, if you just happen to be vacationing in Cuba during the fall of the regime your vacation WILL be rudely cut short. And if you have been propping up Raul's dying regime like the Spanish, then on day one Cuba libre you WILL be out of business.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Gorki Freed

Raul freed Gorki after getting me all worked up into a lather! I went to Babalu and heard that Raul blinked dashing my plans. But let me show you anyway. The above is the flier I would have put up, and will do so if Raul does this again, in areas crucial to Raul's rule. I was going to put them up in the clubs in Adams Morgan, Georgetown, Capital Hill, etc. where all the artsy fartsy liberals would have been shocked to learn that in Cuba singing can be illegal. It might even cause them to check out the websites at the bottom of the flier. In fact I can make little tear off tabs with the blog sites which they can take home.

I've save the flier and if anybody else needs a Word version or whatever just let me know.

Stupid Communists

Stupid Communists

This is how stupid communists are. Any other country would just let Gorki sing his heart out, sell recordings, make millions of dollars then tax the bejeesus out of him. Instead, these 19th Century idiots jail him. Then they complain about being poor followed by a condemnation of the U.S. for making them so. But this kind of fool policy of jailing artists is the reason Cuba is so poor. PEOPLE AREN'T FREE TO EARN WEALTH! CNN is not even free to ask the question in Cuba or Raul will kick their fake reporters out of the country.

Divine Request

Divine Request

Dear God...please do me a favor. Could you kill Raul for me? I don't hardly ever make a request from you because I know there is a lot on your plate these days. However Gorki, a young musician in Cuba, has just been jailed for singing. Spanish investors in Cuba and tourists should realize that if Raul jails singers for their music then what kind of treatment can they expect? But these cruel people are too selfish to care about Cuban people. So please God - show them all who is really boss and kill Raul today. Could I just ask one more favor? Please make his death painful and public.

Thank you either way.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Treaty of Paris Poison Pill


Treaty of Paris Poison Pill

Article VIII.

In conformity with the provisions of Articles I, II, and III of this treaty, Spain relinquishes in Cuba, and cedes in Porto Rico and other islands in the West Indies, in the island of Guam, and in the Philippine Archipelago, all the buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, structures, public highways and other immovable property which, in conformity with law, belong to the public domain, and as such belong to the Crown of Spain.

And it is hereby declared that the relinquishment or cession, as the case may be, to which the preceding paragraph refers, can not in any respect impair the property or rights which by law belong to the peaceful possession of property of all kinds, of provinces, municipalities, public or private establishments, ecclesiastical or civic bodies, or any other associations having legal capacity to acquire and possess property in the aforesaid territories renounced or ceded, or of private individuals, of whatsoever nationality such individuals may be.

The aforesaid relinquishment or cession, as the case may be, includes all documents exclusively referring to the sovereignty relinquished or ceded that may exist in the archives of the Peninsula. Where any document in such archives only in part relates to said sovereignty, a copy of such part will be furnished whenever it shall be requested. Like rules shall be reciprocally observed in favor of Spain in respect of documents in the archives of the islands above referred to.

In the aforesaid relinquishment or cession, as the case may be, are also included such rights as the Crown of Spain and its authorities possess in respect of the official archives and records, executive as well as judicial, in the islands above referred to, which relate to said islands or the rights and property of their inhabitants. Such archives and records shall be carefully preserved, and private persons shall without distinction have the right to require, in accordance with law, authenticated copies of the contracts, wills and other instruments forming part of notorial protocols or files, or which may be contained in the executive or judicial archives, be the latter in Spain or in the islands aforesaid.

Article IX.

Spanish subjects, natives of the Peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its proceeds; and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce and professions, being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners. In case they remain in the territory they may preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve such allegiance; in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside.

The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.

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What It Meant

Sure this is what Article 8 and 9 of the Treaty of Paris said but what it meant was whoever owned the land at the end of the war would continue to own the land. This agreement between Spain and the U.S. ending the war set in motion the economic and political conditions that would eventually lead to Castro.


During the war the Spanish crown seized all of the land from the Cubans in revolt then sold it at auction for centavos per acre to the Spanish nobility. This included my great grandfather's land as well. All of the patriots of the war for independence from Spain, except my great grandfather, lost everything. Cubans were free from Spanish rule per se...but the Spanish nobility owned most of the land. This set in motion the class divisions that pitted the landless Cuban against the nobility.That was especially apparent in the military where the officer's corps were made up of rich snobs whose commissions were paid for by their rich families. The rank and file soldiers however did not respect these elitists and that opened the door for a corporal named Batista to seize power. You know the rest of the story. Today the Spanish socialist government tries to re-exploit Cuban slave labor and the land they once owned. Castro is the landlord now but that won't stop the Spanish from trying to make a few pesos off the 21st Century Cuban peasants.

One hundred and one years ago my great grandfather resigned from office and called in the US marines to control things temporarily. Many leftists actually condemn me for this decision 3 generations removed from yours truly. Don Tomas made that decision - not me. Still, let me defend my famous relative. My great grandfather believed the only problem stopping Cuba's advancement was Spanish colonialism. They were and now once again, a major impediment to Cuban prosperity. Once they were vanquished by the US my great grandfather thought everything would be fine with Cubans working together. What he could not predict was the greed that would drive differing interests within Cuban society to begin conspiring against his presidency - the very presidency that was responsible for accumulating the wealth in the Cuban treasury in the first place. This was such a disappointment to Don Tomas that he resigned in disgust due to these greedy segments within Cuba.

You may challenge my great grandfather's decision to call in the U.S. military but he was the president and the safety of the people was his main responsibility. If he just walked away without calling for U.S. intevention then today we would be studying about the Cuban Civil War of 1906 with tens of thousands of deaths. Besides, he was just sick and tired - literally. His cousin Emiliano Estrada found him wandering the streets extremely ill only two years later. Emiliano took Don Tomas into his home where he died pennyless shortly thereafter. He was the only Cuban president since then to die pennyless while leaving office with the treasury fat with millions of dollars. So go ahead and question my great grandfather's motives and slander the honesty of his good name. The honest people who knew him, my family and I know the truth. That, and not slander from the historically ignorant or those with a political agenda, is what is important at the end of the day.


Look Out For Police!

Look Out For Police!

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