Fidel Castro: Blame Me For Cuba's Persecution of Gays

Don’t let this sociopath liar fool you, he has no regrets. We can say that Castro lies more than he speaks the truth. Castro’s persecution of gays didn’t stopped in the 1970s. The brutal treatment is given to LGTB members in Castrolandia, has continue up to nowadays.

A Caudillo's Own Story
http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/02/a-caudillos-own-story

Michael C. Moynihan | September 2, 2010

Via Washington Examiner columnist Mark Hemingway comes news that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” (maricones) who served the interests of imperialism, has “taken blame” for his revolution’s “excesses” against gay Cubans, which once included sending sexual counterrevolutionaries to prison camps. After offering a string of lame excuses—he was too busy thwarting American plots to stop sending his citizens to prison for being gay—Castro stopped short of actually apologizing.

As Hemingway notes, Castro’s persecution of gays (and black Cubans) hardly stopped in the 1970s, as this Reuters story suggests, with gay bars routinely shut down by the state security service and organizers of a 2008 gay pride march thrown in jail. But for this non-apology, designed to burnish his foul legacy, Foreign Policy magazine says that while Castro is "a bit late," he nevertheless "deserves plaudits.” No he doesn’t. Nor did Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet deserves plaudits for his 1999 letter “lamenting” (and not apologizing) those killed during his reign—which, incidentally, no one in the media was willing to grant. And rightly so.

Improper Conduct (Mauvaise Conduite), Néstor Almendro’s affecting film on the persecution of gays and anti-regime artists, is on Youtube in twelve parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcF5ubWiy5k&feature=player_embedded

Granma, the official daily organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, wrote this on the First National Congress on Education and Culture regarding Homosexuality:

“An in-depth analysis was made of the preventive and educational measures that are to be put into effect against existing locusts, including the control and relocation of isolated cases and degrees of deterioration . . . it was resolved that for notorious homosexuals to have influence in the formation of our youth is not to be tolerated on the basis of “artistic merits” . . . homosexuals should not have any direct influence on our youth through artistic and cultural activities. It was resolved that those whose morals do not correspond to the prestige of our revolution should be barred from any group of performers representing our country abroad. Finally it was agreed to demand severe penalties be applied to those who corrupt the morals of minors, depraved repeat offenders and irredeemable antisocial elements.”

If the government can criminalize homosexuality, this implies the authority to criminalize anything. You don’t need to be homosexual to appreciate the ominous implications.

Samuel Farber said, “The present Cuban government… has done more to promote homophobia than any regime in the country’s history.”

After 51 years LGTB members remains under attack in Castrolandia. Article 303 of the Cuban Penal Code threatens “publicly manifested” homosexuality with a year’s imprisonment. Homosexual Cubans can be imprisoned for something as innocuous as holding hands.

The Cuba Communist Party, the only one legalized political party in Dr. Castro island paradise doesn’t allow homosexuals in its ranks.

...okay he's a scummy dirsty bastard... but he's taking responsibility instead of trying to dodge and distance.

He is admitting something that millions of Cubans already know. We all know who is behind the repression of all the people on the island. The fact that he accepted blame will never bring back the lives of the thousands of gays who were killed and who had years of their lives taken from them in concentration camps.

I think its all fine and good he admitted he was responsible...but may he burn in hell for ever for sending thousands of LGBT to their deaths.

He may be a raving bastard, but at least he is openly admitting that it was him and him alone who did these terrible things.

He's such a cunt. Can't wait till he dies. They should have skewered this bastard outlaw when they had the chance.