FIDEL CASTRO and BARRACK OBAMA – BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Submitted by: Patricia E Jackson

IT IS HAPPENING HERE IN AMERICA AS YOU READ RHIS!

. .. I remember asking dad about Castro when I was about 9 years old.
I asked , “Is Castro a good guy or bad?”
Dad said he couldn’t tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in
Louisiana at the time . Dad was in the army there.
Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot.  The Cubans were asking
the same question!  Ike was president.
This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with
a refugee from Cuba.  Our dinner conversation was starkly different
than most.
This refugee came to the  United States as a young boy in the early
1960s.  His family was more fortunate than most as they were able to
bring a suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro’s newly formed
revolutionary paradise.

Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad,
watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn.  This is a menu shared with
family and friends nationwide, while celebrating the birth of our
beloved America on the Fourth of July.

We began with a simple discussion about our country and the direction
it has taken since Barack Obama came to power.  We shared the usual
complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering
emanating from the rulers in Washington.

But then he said it.  The sentence came naturally.  I assume it was
unplanned.  But it carried the weight of a freight train.  ”You know
when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist.”

We sat stunned.  He continued, “Yes, we all thought he was a patriot,
a nationalist.  Before the revolution he didn’t sound like a radical.”

The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, “You mean
just like Barack Obama?”
He responded, “Yes, just like Barack Obama.”

He continued, “We were all shocked as the government just continued
to grab more power.  First they said the revolution is over, so
please turn in your guns.  We all complied.”

“I remember my uncle saying after it started, ‘Castro will only
nationalize some of the big industries, he will never come and take
our family hardware store.  ’But that is exactly what happened,
Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but
they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware
store.  My family had run this store for generations.  They said we
now own the hardware store, you work for us.  And that nice, large
four-bedroom home you own, it is now our property also, and you can
move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house because
others are moving in with you.”

The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson most Americans
refuse to hear.  Political leaders can lie about their agenda and
once in office they can take totally unexpected turns.

If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors
would be nationalized, we would have never believed it.  We could
never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most
fundamental building block of a justice society would be evaporating
just like it did in Castro’s Cuba in the early 1960s.

But the news of injustice keeps increasing.  Black Panthers are not
charged with wrongdoing by the U.S. Department of Justice because
their crimes are against whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped
of their assets without due process by the government.  Governmental
leaders are bribed in full daylight only to have all investigation of
the crimes stifled by the Attorney General.  The  U.S. borders are
overrun with crime and illegal activity and the leaders in D.C. act
as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers while the innocent
are killed and overrun.  When local communities attempt to enforce
the law, they are ridiculed and threatened as racists and bigots.
They are sued by the very administration entrusted  with enforcing
the law.

Without the rule of law the U.S. Constitution is a sham.  Without the
rule of law our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where
only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe.  As
Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book, a
culture of corruption has replaced honest government.

The only way this problem will be fixed is by massive citizen action.
All honest citizens that want to be treated equally must come
together and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven
enforcement of law end now.  And yes, it can happen here.

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