November 5, 2007

Yet another reason to be glad we have this President...

Jay Nordlinger:

As you may have heard, George W. Bush gave Oscar Biscet the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That is, he will present it to him on Monday. Or rather: He will give it to him in absentia. Dr. Biscet is a political prisoner in Cuba.
I have been yelling about him ever since this column began, I believe--- and that was in March 2001. (I think it was March.) He is one of the bravest and most inspired of the Cuban political prisoners. He is a physician, an "Afro-Cuban," a follower of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. If he were a prisoner of anyone but Castro-- a Communist dictator --he'd be world-famous. If he were a South African, under apartheid, he'd be on the stamps of virtually every country in the world...

...You will find a website dedicated to him here...

This is important! Why? Because the groups and organs that would normally be expected to protest human rights violations and fight for freedom are infected by the totalitarian sickness they supposedly are against. They support the brutal tropical hell-hole that is the Castro regime. They are on the other side, and Castro can commit any atrocity with impunity. They don't care at all

Only the President has the "bully pulpit" to bring such atrocities into public view. Most Presidents don't want to swim against the current like this. And even so, you won't be hearing much about Oscar Biscet on you TV news, I'm sure. I remember a few years ago when there was an award-winning documentary about political prisoners in Cuba. And all the local PBS affiliates were refusing to show it, or suggesting that it should only be shown if the Cuban government got "equal time" to refute it. Evil. These people are evil, and their concern about human rights is a sham.

And there is more you will not be hearing from your local Bolshie...

Jeff Jacoby:

...Peter Kirsanow, a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights, has written that the conditions of Biscet's incarceration are like something out of Victor Hugo: "windowless and suffocating, with wretched sanitary conditions. The stench seeping from the pit in the ground that serves as a toilet is intensified by being compressed into an unventilated cell only as wide as a broom closet. . . . Biscet reportedly suffers from osteoarthritis, ulcers, and hypertension. His teeth, those that haven't fallen out, are rotted and infected."...

Keep that in mind when Leftists complain about Gitmo! (Jacoby's article has a picture of the sort of tiny cell Biscet is in. Keep it in mind when you read about US guards putting gloves on to handle Korans at Gitmo.)

...A prolife Christian physician, Biscet first ran afoul of the Castro regime in the 1990s, when he investigated Cuban abortion techniques - Cuba has by far the highest abortion rates in the Western Hemisphere - and revealed that numerous infants had been killed after being delivered alive....

Keep that one in mind when pro-choicers say "Of course I'm opposed to infanticide."

...In 1997, he began the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, which seeks "to establish in Cuba a state based on the rule of law" and "sustained upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." In 1999, he was given a three-year sentence for "disrespecting patriotic symbols." To protest the regime's repression, he had hung a Cuban flag upside down....

Keep that in mind when lying leftists protest American "fascism" by burning our flag.

[Thanks to Betsy Newmark]

Posted by John Weidner at November 5, 2007 6:37 AM
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