Desperately Fleeing Murderous Regime But Crushed to Death in Landing Gear—Who Could Hail Such a Regime?
“The body of a dead Afghan was found in the landing gear of a US Air Force plane that hastily took off from Kabul airport on Monday as thousands desperately tried to climb aboard even as it taxied down the runway.” (NY Post 8/17.)
A horrible tragedy for sure. And any person—much less any prominent political figure or celebrity—who hailed the murderous regime that drove the Afghan teenager to such desperation would deserve the overwhelming censure of decent people worldwide…Right?
Now, let’s move the focus 7000 miles or so closer to home. Let’s look at a friendly, developed, neighboring Christian nation where “nation-building” would have been immensely easier for the Deep-Swamp’s nation-building “experts” – given that its murderous regime inherited a pre-built nation at a level surpassing much of Europe of the ‘40s and ‘50s
“This week (July 2011) an Iberia Airliner left Havana, landed in Madrid and found an obviously desperate Cuban stowaway. The 23 year old Cuban man named Adonis G.B. was curled in the landing gear, crushed to death.” He joined an estimate of 20-40,000 Cubans dying (literally) to leave Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s handiwork. Almost two million Cubans have made it out alive.
On Christmas Eve, 2000, a British Airliner opened its landing gear near Heathrow airport after taking off from Havana and out dropped two corpses, frozen solid. They were shortly identified as 16 year old Miguel Fonseca and 17 year old Alberto Vázquez.
“Crazy blokes!” probably huffed some of the passengers, oblivious or uncaring that all those pounds they’d just spent on their Cuban vacation went straight into the coffers of the Stalinist military and police who drove the Cuban boys to such deadly desperation. Also oblivious or uncaring that prior to the reign of that Stalinist regime they succor with tourist money, people were almost as desperate to enter Cuba as they are now to escape.
On June 4th 1969, an Iberia Airliner, just landed in Madrid from Havana, was taxiing to the terminal when the frozen corpse of 16 year old Jorge Pérez dropped out. His partner in escape, Armando Socorras, 17, somehow survived in what Spanish medical authorities described as a form of “human hibernation.”
On July 21st 1991, the frozen corpses of Alexis Hernández, 19, and José Acevedo, 20, plopped onto Madrid airport’s tarmac from the landing gear of another Iberia Airlines flight...
On August 22, 1999, the frozen cadaver of Felix Julian Garcia dropped from a British airliner onto the tarmac of Gatwick airport, as it landed from Havana.
A month later, odor led officials of Italy’s Varese Airport to the decomposed corpse of Roberto García Quinta in the landing gear of an Alitalia Airlines flight that had landed from Santiago, Cuba 10 days earlier.
In July 2002, the frozen and battered corpse of a 20-year-old Cuban identified only as Wildredo D. was found in the landing gear of a Lufthansa Airliner at Dusseldorf airport.
In December 2002, a 20-year-old Cuban who worked at Havana airport snuck into a pressurized compartment of Canadian Airliner’s, just under the cabin. He scurried out alive in Montreal airport 4 hours later.
(The list is much longer.)
It was a different story for tens of thousands of dead Cuban rafters, some of whom are probably dying as I sit there typing. Most of these desperate rafters probably died like captives of the apaches like captives of the Apaches, staked in the sun and dying slowly of sunburn and thirst. Others perished gasping and choking after their arms and legs finally gave out and they gulped that last lungful of seawater, much like the crew in The Perfect Storm. Still others were eaten alive -- drawn and quartered by the serrated teeth of Hammerheads and Tiger sharks much like Captain Quint in Jaws. Perhaps these last perished the most mercifully. As we've all seen on the Discovery Channel, sharks don't dally at a meal.
What kind of sick mind could possibly “congratulate” a regime that would drive so many people to so many acts of desperation, some amigos might ask? Especially when prior to this desperation to escape, tens of thousands were almost as desperate to enter?
Got a minute? Got a strong stomach?....OK, here:
"We recognize the progress Cuba has made as a nation, its enormous achievements in education and in health care....they are to be CONGRATULATED!"” - Democrat President Barack Obama, March 2016, Havana, Cuba.
“Fidel Castro is and always has been a committed egalitarian. He wanted a system that provided the basic needs to all Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education…We greeted each other as old friends.” - Former President of the United States and official “Elder Statesman” of the Democrat Party, Jimmy Carter.
“Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, I frankly like him and regard him as a friend.” - Democrat presidential candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and “Conscience of the Democrat Party” George McGovern.
“Viva Fidel! Viva Che!” - Two-time candidate for the Democrat presidential nomination Jesse Jackson, bellowing while arm-in-arm with Fidel Castro himself in 1984.
Please note that above I’m not singling out “fringe elements” of the Democrat Party like Bernie Sanders or The Squad. Instead I’m quoting long-recognized party “leaders”—party presidential candidates in fact.
What kind of a sick mind could possibly hail the living conditions in a place that would drive so many people to such desperation to escape? Well, let’s now turn to the Democrat Party’s propaganda subsidiary:
"Castro is old-fashioned, courtly -- even paternal...a thoroughly fascinating figure!" - NBC's Andrea Mitchell
“People enjoy life in Cuba like in few other places. They’re safe, literate and healthy!” -Time magazine in their World’s Greatest Places Issue, March, 2015.
And back in 2011 Newsweek magazine hailed Cuba among “The Best Countries in the World,” in terms of quality of life. “Cuba outdoes its fellow middle-income countries in quality of life,” explained the 1993 “National Magazine Award for General Excellence” winner.
As mentioned, “nation-building” would have been immensely easier 90 miles from our shores. And liberation might have required nothing more than two Skyhawk jets flying air cover for half an hour.