[YCLSA Discussion] Reflections By Comrade Fidel Castro

[Norman Mampane (Head Office)]

 

Reflections by comrade Fidel

 

CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN OBAMA'S POLITICS AND ETHICS

 

A few days ago I referred to some of Obama's ideas which point to his
role in a system that denies every principle of justice.

 

Some throw their hands up in horror if anything is said to criticize the
important personality, even if it is done with decency and respect. This
is usually accompanied by subtle and not so subtle darts from those with
the means to throw and transform them into the elements of media terror
imposed on the peoples to sustain the unsustainable.

 

Every criticism I make is always construed as an attack, an accusation
and other similar qualifiers reflecting callousness and discourtesy
towards the person involved.

 

This time I'd rather address some questions of many that could be raised
and that the new President of the United States should answer.

 

The following for example:

 

Whether or not he renounces his prerogative as President of the United
States  --that his predecessors with few exceptions exercised as a right
per se--  to order the assassination of a foreign political adversary
usually coming from an underdeveloped country? 

 

By any chance, has any of his many assistants ever informed him of the
sinister actions carried out by former presidents from the days of
Eisenhower through the years 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966,
and 1967 against Cuba, including the mercenary Bay of Pigs [Giron]
invasion, the terror campaigns, the introduction to our territory of a
great amount of weapons and ammunitions, and other similar actions?

 

 It is not my intention to blame the current President of the United
States, Barack Obama, for actions conducted by former presidents when he
had not been born or when he was just a 6-years-old boy born in Hawaii
to a black Moslem Kenyan fathers and a white Christian American mother.
On the contrary, this is an exceptional merit of the U.S. society and I
am the first to admit it.

 

Is President Obama aware that for decades our country was the victim of
deliberately introduced viruses and bacteria carrying diseases and
plagues which affected people, animals and plants? Does he know that
some of them like the Hemorrhagic Dengue Fever later became a scourge
that took the lives of thousands of children in Latin America and that
other plagues impinge on the economy of the peoples of the Caribbean and
the rest of the continent as collateral damages that have yet to be
removed?

 

Does he know that several politically submissive Latin American
countries, which are today embarrassed by all the damages they caused,
also took part in such terrorist and economically harmful actions?

 

Why is our country the only one in the world enduring the imposition of
a disrupting Cuban Adjustment Act which promotes trafficking in persons
and other events that take the lives of people, mostly women and
children?

 

Was it fair to impose on our people an economic blockade lasting almost
50 years?

 

Was it right to arbitrarily demand from the world to accept the
extraterritorial application of this economic blockade which can only
bring hunger and shortages to the people?

 

The United States cannot meet its vital needs without extracting large
mineral resources from a great number of countries often limited in
their exports of them by the intermediate process of refining. In
general, when it is convenient to the interests of the empire, these
products are traded by big transnational companies operating with Yankee
capital.

 

Will that country renounce such privileges?

 

Would that renunciation be compatible with the developed capitalist
system?

 

When Mr. Obama promises to make large investments to be self-reliant in
oil, despite the fact that his country is today the largest market in
the world, what could the future be of those countries whose main
revenues come from exporting that energy as many of them lack any other
significant source of income?

 

After the crisis, once the competition and the fight over the markets
and sources of employment is unleashed again, as it is usually the case
among those who are better off and more efficient in the monopoly of
that technology with sophisticated means of production, what
possibilities will be left to the not developed countries dreaming of
industrialization?

 

The efficiency of the new vehicles manufactured by the auto industry
notwithstanding, will they use the procedure demanded by the ecology to
protect Humanity from the increasing deterioration of the climate?

 

Will the blind philosophy of the market be able to replace that which
only rationality could promote?

 

Obama promises to mint enormous amounts of money to foster the quest for
technologies that can multiply the production of energy whose absence
would paralyze modern societies.

 

He includes the nuclear power plants among the sources of energy he
promises to hastily develop. These are already opposed by a high number
of people due to the high risks of accidents with disastrous
consequences for life, the atmosphere and human food. It is absolutely
impossible to prevent the occurrence of some of these accidents.

 

Modern industry has already contaminated all the seas on the planet with
the release of toxins, even without such accidental disasters.

 

Can the conciliation of such contradictory and antagonistic interests be
rightly promised without transgressing ethics?

 

The U.S. House of Representatives with a Democratic majority launched
the extremely protectionist slogan of "buy US goods", to please the
unions that supported his campaign. This tramples on a basic principle
of the World Trade Organization, since every nation in the world, be
they big or small, dream of their development based on trading goods and
services; however, only the big and rich among them have the privilege
to survive to realize such dream. 

The Republicans in the United States, discredited by the actions of the
reckless Bush administration, soon reacted against the measures taken by
Obama to please his allies in the unions. Thus is wasted the credit
given by the voters to the new President of the United States.

 

As an old politician and fighter I commit no sin by modestly exposing
these ideas.

 

As hundreds of news from the political, scientific and technological
circles are published every day, many questions could be raised for
which there are not easy answers. 

 

 

Fidel Castro Ruz

February 4, 2009

5:14 p.m.  

 

 

   


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