Random Thoughts

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 16

BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS



- The Miami Herald's Editorial Board ran a good piece entitled, "Cuba is no Egypt."

It concludes, "[U]nlike Hosni Mubarak – and Sadat and Nasser before that – the Castro brothers have foreclosed every avenue of rebellion and taken every conceivable step to stifle the longing for freedom. Like the Sun King, Louis XIV, Fidel Castro has been able to proudly proclaim that he is the state."

Would that then make Cardinal Ortega the Cuban Richelieu? For historical precision, it would actually make him the Cuban Mazarin (Richelieu's protege and successor), but you get the point.

- Doesn't it seem like CNN runs a story about every "Reflection" Cuban dictator Fidel Castro makes -- no matter how absurd it is?

Today, it ran, "Cuba's Fidel Castro Hails 'Egyptian Revolution.'"

So why has the regime gone out of its way to meticulously hide the events in Egypt from the Cuban people?

- And finally, former Castro regime bureaucrat turned University of Denver doctoral student, Arturo Lopez-Levy, writes:

"The fact that Mr. Gross will finally have his day in Court is positive. It brings his situation closer to international standards regarding the human right to legal counsel and a fair and impartial trial."

Seriously?

This must be the only time Castro's "Court" and "fair and impartial trial" have been used in the same phrase -- other than in Fidel's "Reflections," of course.