Iranian Cigars

Castro is back. Raul may still be in charge while Fidel continues slowly towards his old age death, but his spirit lives on … with repression. Despite many thought that with Raul things would improve (humanly speaking) the fact is little has changed. Now with the death of dissident Orlando Zapata, we see that the Revolutionary regime is as cruel as before. Not only do they allow this man to starve to death, but they also turn his burial into a martial law and insult his name in the national press. Despite that many Left wing activists will keep their mouth shut because they do not wish to sully the good name of socialism, we fear that this situation is a result of passive democracies.

When looking at Iran and their monstrous actions against popular protest, what should lesser dictatorships fear? The Ayatollahs’ regime has beaten, tortured, murdered, raped liberal protesters and violated human rights. Yet the most horrendous crime was that Enlightenment coalition has done nothing to punish this aggression on mankind. So if Iran’s barbarity goes unpunished, what should lesser tyrannies fear? Cuba may grow crueler and Venezuela more authoritarian, at the end Modernity won’t mind that Iraq becomes an Islamist despotism or Gaza a Hamas Taliban State.