Or to put it another way: “San Francisco In Support of Slavery”

“[T]his from the San Francisco Sentinel titled ‘Happy Birthday, Fidel! San Franciscans honor the life of the world’s longest reigning revolutionary leader.’ If you can stomach it, I urge you to scroll through the page linked above. What you’ll find, other than the fact that some people live in Lala Land, is that anti-Americanism comes in all shapes and cultures and colors and sizes.”

So writes Val Prieto from the BabaluBlog. She continues:

I’ve coined a term for people like the ones in the San Francisco and Harlem celebrating fidel castro’s birthday: Vicarious Communists (or Marxists, or Socialist or fidelistas. The terms are interchangeable.)

The unfortunate result of the actions of these Vicarious Communists, like the poetry reading, guitar strumming, lyrical dancing, America bashing, all is well and beautiful in fragrant in fields of flowers folks in the San Francisco link above is that while they use their freedom of expression and thought, as is their right as Americans, there are people in countries like Cuba who suffer the consequences. There are people who have no freedom of expression, they have no freedom of thought, they have no freedom of association. It is they who pay the price of the anti-American Americans.

It is, for some, quite easy to love a fidel castro from afar, but it’s a whole different ballgame for those who have to endure the “world’s longest reigning revolutionary leader.”

Read the whole thing.

1. Happy Birthday, Mr. Dictator!…

   Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday was July 13th. A certain segment of the population in San Francisco, who probably call themselves “progressives”, celebrated the Communist’s 80th birthday in grand fashion. Here&#821…

   Trackback by Sister Toldjah — August 15, 2006 @ 1:02 pm

1. Castro is a great man. ……… Well compared to Mugabe, Kim il young and Osama anyway.

   At least in Cuba if you survive a beating from the secert police for saying something like “maybe a free press might not be a bad idea” you have a decent health care system.

   Comment by simon — August 15, 2006 @ 11:42 am

2. Toldjah , What the hell do these people think communism progresses in SF? Poverty?

   Comment by Kohda — August 15, 2006 @ 1:56 pm