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After writing my post about the CBC’s trip to Cuba, I found a marvelous article that Myriam Marquez wrote for the Miami Herald. Ms. Marquez’s column asks all the right questions, which is why I’m recommending everyone reads it. Here’s a sample of Ms. Marquez’s column:

If only the group had met with even one prisoner of conscience or one of the wives, mothers, daughters or sisters of the 75 independent journalists, librarians and human-rights advocates imprisoned in Cuba’s “Black Spring” of 2003. They would have easily spotted the Ladies in White in Havana on Palm Sunday, walking in protest to raise awareness about their men’s harsh sentences for daring to think outside the communist box of limitations.

The CBC is willingly blinding itself to the atrocities that Fidel commits on a daily basis. What’s stunning to me is that they were turning a blind eye to these atrocities while our president was profusely apologizing for the United States’ actions.

What’s wrong with this picture? The Leader of the Free World spends a week apologizing for the United States, the greatest liberator in the history of the world while seven members of the CBC heap praise on a despotic ruler who imprisons men who “think outside the communist box of limitations.”

What’s wrong with this picture? The Leader of the Free World didn’t lift a finger to stand up for the country he’s president of while the CBC’s puppets didn’t lift a finger to stand up to one of the most evil totalitarians in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

Europe wants the liberator to apologize so he apologizes. Meanwhile, the CBC sees no reason to criticize Fidel for his murderous rampages and his purges of anyone who’d dare speak truth to power.

The black U.S. lawmakers’ concerns weren’t for the 300-plus Cuban prisoners of conscience listed by Amnesty International or the hundreds of dissidents working from their homes under the watch of a totalitarian regime. Or the lack of civil rights in a country with a majority black and mixed-race population ruled by an overwhelmingly white gerontocracy.

Willful blindness is the technique used by liberals in rationalizing despotic behavior. People that refuse to look for despotism won’t find despotism. Thanks to their willful blindness, they can think of the world as a nice place to live.

Unfortunately, the world is a terrible neighborhood to live in. It’s teeming with despots who either want to control the world (Iran) or despots whose goal is to ‘just’ control an island paradise.

The CBC’s actions, coupled with President Obama’s actions, is proof that they’ll coddle every despot while turning their back on special allies like Israel.

Rep. Kendrick Meek, who’s running for the Senate seat in Florida criticized his blind brethren this way:

“Political prisoners jailed in Cuba are held for peacefully expressing their rights and freedoms, like Dr. Oscar Biscet and Antúnez,” he said. “The Cuban spies held in the U.S. federal prisons were a threat to our national security. That’s the difference between night and day.”

That’s what happens when the blinders are willfully removed.

I wish I’d said what Ms. Marquez said:

Just once, I’d like to see a delegation of muckety-mucks see the real Cuba. Sure, talk with Tío Fidel, as three of the Clueless reportedly did during their trip that ended Tuesday. But also go see opposition members, feel their pain.

That would be nice indeed but I won’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen. Criticizing a despot just doesn’t seem like a weapon in the CBC’s arsenal.

Technorati Tags: Cuba, Despotism, Fidel Castro, Tyrants, CBC, Human Rights, Freedom of the Press, Dissidents, Journalists, President Obama, Apology Tour

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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