Cuba's Fidel Castro dies aged 90

[Judi Lynn]

73. Please, don't deny yourself the opportunity to address the stupidity. This is Castro's passing day.

You won't have the same chance again.

Go ahead, tear into me. Give it all you've got.

Speaking of banana boats (are you sure there are a lot of bananas in Cuba?), what is the reason that drives all those people from South, Central America, Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, smaller islands, across the water, or those coming through Mexico, across the desert, rivers, through mountains, through searing heat, knowing some just die in the desert and never make it, that THOUSANDS have died in the attempt, hundreds every year from California to Texas?

Are those people fleeing from their presidents? Will they have instant legal protection the moment they get here, will they get instant green card, social security, instant food stamp access, instant access to Section 8 US taxpayer-financed housing, medical treatment, government funds for education, etc., etc., etc., just like CUBANS?

Of course they don't. They are put into detention centers, and sent right back to their homes, even when it is provable that they will most likely be killed. During Haiti's US-aided coup of President Arisitide, and Haitians were trying desperately to leave in boats to get to safety, George W. Bush surrounded their country with Navy and Coast Guards, and fed them right back into that unholy massacre going on in their towns as the US-supplied, trained mercenaries slaughtered their neighbors, their families, and finally THEM when they returned from fleeing, and left their bodies lying in the streets.

THEY were not allowed here.

Cubans, on the other hand, are valuable for propaganda purposes, and they are welcome as rain if they can make it to the US by plane, or sneaking in through another country. It's the ####ing Cuban Adjustment Act, and it hands out freebies of every kind to Cubans who want to live here, allowing them to have HERE the same things they had in Cuba, which our government will not give to anyone else, including ordinary US citizens, of course, unless they can prove they are absolutely impoverished, and maybe not then, thanks to the fascist right-wingers.

Sweet deal.

Please, get right back in there and don't hesitate to share what you've learned.