[R-G] Fidel Needs Retirement

[Macdonald Stainsby]

What needs to be retired is the idea that we need to play censor with 
ourselves, and that even Fidel needs to be reigned in for straying from 
the official (Cheney led) line. There is a real problem not with Fidels 
evidence, but the audacity he has to speak these things without getting 
permission from American leftists, whose track record of making social 
change is so powerful that they ought to be heeded no matter how stupid 
their pronouncements.

As always the debate here is not about the same subject for the 
contributors. The "official" left doesn't really take up hat is being 
said, they make blithe comments about whether it should be spoken about 
and point to something produced by the very people that the evidence is 
supposed to be exposing.

If the left took what is said about these events in the same manner and 
applied that manner to the current economic crumbling in the US, we 
would have a series of people on the left assuring us that what is 
happening to the economy is bad but temporary, not a serious issue and 
reflective of very little. If we applied the "conspiracist" logic of 
faith in the official story on oil, we'd be expecting some mad crash of 
oil prices "based on simple supply and demand" with supplies that do not 
exist (some of us are already that silly). In general, with the thinking 
pattern being put forth by much of these "denouncements", there really 
is no point in being on some "left". But that doesn't really matter. 
What really matters is that Fidel Castro is doing what he always does: 
He is staying away from doctrine and going where people are, helping 
lead the thinking of the general population ever further forward and 
making certain-- whether it is biofuels, a "war on terror" or 9-11, that 
the lies of the mainstream are not *only* countered by a fringe, but the 
very best of all of us. Fidel Castro has always remained ahead of the 
rest of us. And now he doesn't even worry about where that is.

Siempre con Fidel!
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Fidel has had a long, distinguished record of leadership.  But
> everyone, even Fidel, needs retirement.  The latest reflection of his
> confirms the need.
> 
> <http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/septiembre/mier12/37reflexiones.html>
> Havana.  September 12, 2007
> Reflections of President Fidel Castro
> The Empire and Its Lies
> 
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,,2167354,00.html>
> 10.15am
> Castro says US lied about 9/11 attacks
> 
> Mark Tran and agencies
> Wednesday September 12, 2007
> Guardian Unlimited
> 
> Fidel Castro today joined the band of September 11 conspiracy
> theorists by accusing the US of spreading disinformation about the
> attacks that took place six years ago.
> 
> In a 4,256-word article read by a Cuban television presenter last
> night, the country's leader asserted that the Pentagon was hit by a
> rocket, not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers.
> 
> "Only a projectile could have created the geometrically round orifice
> created by the alleged airplane," he said. "We were deceived as well
> as the rest of the planet's inhabitants," he said.
> 
> In fact, the remains of the bodies of the crew and passengers of
> American Airlines flight 77 were found at the Pentagon crash site, and
> positively identified by DNA.
> --
> Yoshie
> 
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