Ignoring Cries For Freedom; Pandering To Ungrateful Haters
The United States is supposed to be the beacon of freedom for all the world to see, at least that’s how the story goes. But time and time again, when opportunities present for the United States to come to the aid of those risking their lives to cry out for freedom, those cries are met with a stunning and cowardly silence. This is the current situation in Cuba.
Have you heard anything on the network or cable news channels about the uprising of the Cuban people currently underway? Have you heard anyone from the Biden State Department talking about the brave Cubans who are taking to the streets screaming for freedom? For that matter, have you heard anything from the campaign trails about how we should be supporting the Cuban people as they storm police stations and confront communist party officials?
The fact that you haven’t should stand as proof positive that for all the rhetoric about supporting freedom movements around the world, American politicians, Deep State bureaucrats, and elected officials – the American media complex – exist as patronizing blowhards whose words mean very little. They are more concerned about gender pronouns and fake diversity numbers than they are about freedom for the oppressed or even eliminating human trafficking and sex slavery.
In some of the most oppressive countries in the world, each time the people brave death and incarceration in a quest for freedom, the elected class in the United States has found some other cause de jour to pretend they are concerned about. And no other people on the face of the planet – besides perhaps the Iranian people – have heard the deafening indifference more than the people of Cuba post-communist revolution.
90 miles from the Florida Keys, this pearl of a Caribbean island exits as a Third World country because of a communist regime the Cuban people have been trying to jettison for decades.
A Brief History Of Communist Crimes Against The Cuban People
As noted by the organization CommunistCrimes.org:
“Before communism, Cuba ranked among the most developed Latin American countries, with living standards exceeding those of many European countries. Forty years of communist dictatorship have now led the country to the verge of collapse.
“A communist system was gradually imposed on Cuba after a revolution against unpopular dictator Fulgencio Batista was taken over by Fidel Castro, Ernesto Guevara, and other guerrillas-turned-communists. New rulers adopted a one-party system, suspended civil liberties, and put strong pressure on the Church. The economy was nationalized and the society was militarized.
“To eradicate and prevent any anti-communist resistance, the rulers launched a wave of terror. According to the ‘Black Book of Communism’, death squads had shot at least 14,000 Cubans by the 1970s; in all, more than 100,000 have died or been killed as a result of the revolution.
“In 1960, Cuba established its first gulag-style concentration camps. And by 1961, some 300,000 of the island’s 6.4 million inhabitants were detained in these camps. This and other acts of communist terror prompted a mass exodus. More than half a million people fled the country in just five years and the total number of refugees and exiles now exceeds two million.”
If You Believe In Freedom The Choice Is Clear
Even though the Cuban people have twice taken to the streets during the Biden administration – the first time just six months after Biden assumed the Oval Office, Mr. Biden’s regime has made the decision to pander to the Islamist voters in the US rather than come to the aid of those risking their lives to be free.
CNN.com reported in February;
“Senior Biden administration officials are expected to meet with members of the Arab American and Muslim community in Michigan on Thursday...
“The senior officials represent some of Biden’s most trusted advisers and policymakers. A list of attendees…includes United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, principal deputy national security adviser Jon Finer, Office of Public Engagement director Steve Benjamin, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs director Tom Perez, White House liaison to American Muslim Communities Mazen Basrawi, as well as aides Jamie Citron and Dan Koh.
“The meetings come as Biden is grappling with growing discontent within his own party over his handling of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Michigan is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of Arab Americans and Muslims and there is concern among Democrats that alienating that key group could hurt the president in a battleground state that was crucial to his 2020 win and is expected to be close again in November.”
In the two times that the Cuban people have taken to the street in the less than four years of the Biden administration, how many “senior Biden administration officials” have been sent to Cuba on behalf of those seeking freedom in that island nation? Zero.
As Mike Gonzalez reports at WashingtonExaminer.com:
“Cubans courageously took to the streets en masse on July 11, 2021, with…Biden barely six months into his term; [the] largest protests since the triumph of the revolution on New Year’s Eve 1958..”
“[But] the Cuban government immediately unleashed a wave of repression that saw the arrests of more than 1,500. ‘The authorities arbitrarily detained hundreds of people without informing their families of their whereabouts, kept activists and independent journalists under extreme surveillance, and cut off the population’s internet access,’ according to Amnesty International. More than 600 Cubans still languish behind bars three years later.
“While the arrests, which included minors, were meant to sow terror in the population, something the Cuban Communist Party has perfected in over six decades, cutting off the internet was done to ensure that Cubans were isolated from one another.
Biden failed to act decisively, spurning a chorus of pleas to provide Cubans with internet access. Many of those calls came from Florida members of Congress, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), who said at a congressional hearing, “The Biden administration could enhance the WiFi from the Havana embassy or from Guantanamo, and this can be done in minutes…’
“The Cuban government has pledged to stay away from truculent means this time, but there are reports that it is behaving exactly as it behaved three years ago.
“‘The cowardly regime shut down internet access and mobilized its secret police to brutalize and jail the protesters,’ Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), the only member of Congress born on the island, said of this month’s protests. ‘After 64 years of tyranny and repression, the Cuban people want to be free. I call on the Biden administration to do the right thing and immediately provide the island of Cuba with satellite internet.”
“Again, crickets from the White House.”
A Contrast In Ideological Loyalties
The infuriating irony here is that while the Biden regime panders to a demographic that hates everything about the United States and the West simply to garner votes, the regime is ignoring cries for help from a people who appreciate and desire the freedoms the United States and the West are supposed to stand for.
Mr. Biden, with all the power of the Deep State apparatus at his disposal, chooses to – once again – let the Cuban people swing in the breeze while he attempts to curry favor with the Islamofascist community, all in the pursuit of political opportunism.
As Gonzalez wrote, “Cubans are hungry, tired of power outages, and, after 64 years of socialism, fed up with tyranny. So they are taking to the island’s streets in droves, demanding food, electricity, and liberty. The trouble is, the Biden administration is in office, and, having botched every foreign policy challenge before it, the likelihood it will get Cuba right is very slim…”
This is the truth and it is nauseatingly pathetic that it is.
¡Libertad para el pueblo Cubano!