{"id":4551,"date":"2009-04-10T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:50:09","slug":"lie-down-with-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4551","title":{"rendered":"Lie Down With Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mona Charen takes down the Congressional Black [Liberal] Caucus’ trip to Havana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a long, detailed beat-down, full of juxtapositions like…:<\/p>\n

In finest useful-idiot fashion, Representative Rush said this of 77-year-old Raul Castro, who has served Fidel throughout the 50-year totalitarian siege of the island: \u201cI think that what really surprised me, but also endeared me to him,\u201d he told the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, \u201cwas his keen sense of humor, his sense of history and his basic human qualities. I intend to do everything that I can when we get back to the States to make sure that normalization with our relationship with Cuba is given proper consideration both within the House of Representatives and the neighborhoods of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Black Book of Communism<\/em> again on treatment of prisoners in Cuba:<\/p>\n

The violence of the prison regime affected both political prisoners and common criminals. Violence began with the interrogations conducted by the Departamento Tecnico de Investigaciones (DTI). The DTI used solitary confinement and played on the phobias of the detainees: one woman who was afraid of insects was locked in a cell infested with cockroaches. The DTI also used physical violence. Prisoners were forced to climb a staircase wearing shoes filled with lead and were then thrown back down the stairs. Psychological torture was also used, often observed by a medical team. . . . The children of detainees were banned from higher education, and spouses were often fired from their jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Please, Democrats. Keep these hamsters out front.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mona Charen takes down the Congressional Black [Liberal] Caucus’ trip to Havana. It’s a long, detailed beat-down, full of juxtapositions like…: In finest useful-idiot fashion, Representative Rush said this of 77-year-old Raul Castro, who has served Fidel throughout the 50-year totalitarian siege of the island: \u201cI think that what really surprised me, but also endeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}