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<p>This note was sent to me by a long-time and very close friend, Gabriel Sorzano. Gabriel, and his family, were friends of my wife's family in Cuba. Gabriel is one of the "First Wave" Cuban exiles who found their way to safety in America after Castro's takeover and subsequent efforts to save everyone from evil capitalists and God.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note (for those who may not know) that after Batista fled Cuba, Castro and his "rebels" came down from the mountains with rosaries around their necks and a promise to lead the people from darkness to light... Sound familiar anyone?<br /><br />Gabriel is in his late 80’s.</p>
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<p>Jack I am trying to translate a paper that you might find interesting.<br /><br />Tirany<br /><br />When one realizas how tirany operates one is surprised because its mechanism is just the opposite of what seems at first.<br /><br />One thinks that the strength of the tirant is in him and in a certain way it may be, but that is not what gives him power. The power is in the many that obey him and also in the ones that fear the others which they believe obey him.<br /><br />Is a positive feed back effect, it begins inocently enough in the admiration of a person whose attitude that may have some risks, seems admirable to a great part of the people, that admiration is mostly emotional, an some people call it histerical, but it comes to a point where it turns violent, it is right there that starts the growth of the tirany.<br /><br />In the life of modern developed countries and also in those not developed that have a suffiently strong media, is fairly easy to that media to make visible everyday in several ways that individual that they want, having chosen one that have qualities that make it easy. continous exposure gives acertain familiarity that does away with fears and that way increases the popularity that eventually culminates in violence.<br /><br />Unluckily for the world fidel found a way to reduce an organized country to complete obedience starting from a government that was original quite popular. He incited part of the people to violence throught some 500 hours of television talk in one year stressing envies and resentment that always exist. And since then we have seen several others go the same way.<br /><br />There are countries that feel superior to this possibility but they dont realize that the media in them is malso more powerfu and dominate the country by forming public opinion.<br /><br />In a very orderly country the very forces of keeping order can be used as the necessary violence, that the media will always cover up with lies.<br /><br />In powerful countries where life level been reduced resentments have increased. Poor education also makes the recognition of these realities difficult but mainly because there is no desire to so.<br /><br />Jack I found this perhaps pertinent gabriel</p>
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<p> Very pertinent Gabriel. It is unfolding before our eyes and the “useful idiots”, the liberal media, are falling over themselves to make it happen while ignoring the glaring danger. There has been a recent, systematic strengthening of the Executive Branch in the passing of new congressional laws, Executive Orders and/or by the Executive Branch’s blatant and arrogant disregard of Congress. Yet, in spite of this, the Press assures us that there is absolutely nothing to worry about and that all is well in Camelot.<br /><br />Life in the United States in 2012 is not unlike Winston Churchill’s time when he alone (and eventually the Roman Catholic Church) was decrying the danger of Hitler’s Germany while Chamberlain, and, ironically, our very own Joseph Kennedy, was singing Hitler’s praises. Or different than Lenin stirring up 24,000 Bolsheviks (the toiling and exploited masses) to eventually enslave a country of 150,000,000 people. Our Bolsheviks are called “Occupy Wall Streeters” or Trayvon’s Black Panthers or Wisconsin Union Public Employees. And if there is violence, or the threat of violence, the White House and the Media silently approve as did Lenin who said “violence, when it is committed by the toiling and exploited masses, is the kind of violence of which we approve”.<br /><br />It is also interesting to note that Lenin, Hitler, Castro, et al., made it their mission to destroy the Church (competition).<br /><br />No, there is truly nothing new under the sun. It is just so damn frustrating that people fall for the same tricks over and over, and that so few recognize it until thousands are enslaved or killed. It must make you sick Gabriel, after escaping this tyranny once in your lifetime, to possibly experience it again.</p>
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