Reply #56: "Czech model"...

[rayofreason]

The phrase was literal, not metaphorical.

The Czech model in question is a young woman, Helena Houdova, who was arrested for taking pictures of slums. Her story is here (as linked to in my original post) - http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=174963

More detail can be found here - http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0216/tempo1.php

Just one snippet from the article -

"The girls were arrested because they deliberately waged a campaign against Cuba in cooperation with Cuban dissidents," Aymee Hernandez, Cuba's chargé d'affaires in Prague, told reporters.

And what was that "deliberately waged a campaign against Cuba"? Taking pictures of slums. Now I am LOL.

Speaking of LOL, I have had quite a few chuckles when I read you post that Castro is not a dictator, that he does not rule Cuba, and that political freedom is the norm with anyone able to form a political party in opposition to the government, no problem. What a hoot!!! Fortunately I see plenty of posts on the DU indicating that I am not the only one laughing.

I hope that you are still on the DU when that charsimatic bastard kicks the bucket and the whole state personality cult that he has held together comes apart at the seams the way the Soviet Union cracked once people felt it was safe not to believe in the "infallible party". I wonder what you will say then? But don't worry - there might still be some Stalinist SOBs left in a few dark corners. After all, the Workers World Party found Milosevic and Saddam to support.