Castro Death Watch

By violating the U.S. embargo:

“The fact that you’re not supposed to be there, that was the top for me,” said Amit, 29, a New York City native who visited Cuba in September 2006, shortly after the 81-year-old Castro fell ill and ceded power to his younger brother.

“I was like, ‘It’s time to go,’” said Amit, who asked that his full name not be published to avoid U.S. fines. “You just don’t know what Cuba will be like after Castro’s gone.”

Well, gee Amit, you like it so much, why not stay there until Castro’s death is officially announced, and find out first-hand?

Another couple of useful idiots who should’ve bought one-way tickets chime in in a similar vein:

“We wanted to get here before all the other Americans come and ruin it all,” said Bridget, a 20-year-old from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who wandered Old Havana’s colonial streets with her friend Erik in August. They wouldn’t give their last names.

“It’s forbidden treasure,” said Erik, also from the Twin Cities. “It will be so Americanized in a few years. Just like Cancun,” where U.S. franchises from Hard Rock Cafe to Hooters tend to drown out Mexican culture.

Why not stay there UNTIL the Americans can “ruin” it–in other words, until the Castro’s are gone? How quaint it is, seeing how other people live without the things you take for granted, right Bridget and Erik? You know, little things like “food,” “rights” and “freedom?”

WARNING: Don’t read this Guardian Unlimited piece about the bloody murderer Che Guevara while you’re eating.

Here’s a snippet, if you can stomach it:

Forty years later the anniversary of the death (of Che Guevara) is looming and the scene is transformed: the Cubans are back, socialism is back, and Che is officially a hero.

An elaborate ceremony in Vallegrande, the town where his corpse was displayed, will be just one of many government-backed rallies across the Andes and the Caribbean.

There seems to be no end to the number of useful idiots out there. If there were ANY justice in this world, they’d be forced to live under the conditions imposed on those who live under the horrendous system advocated by Che Guevara and his ilk.

Elena Perez, the mother of the four-year-old Cuban girl at the heart of a bitter custody battle between the girl’s Miami-based foster family and her Cuba-based father, dropped a nuclear bomb in the courtroom this week. In trying to prove the father wanted his daughter back with him in Cuba, she had originally shown the court letters allegedly sent by the father to her, asking for his child back.

But she sang a different tune under oath yesterday:

“I tried to twist things around to favor the father,” she said. “The letters do not exist.”

They were fabricated, Perez said, by Magda Montiel Davis, one of two attorneys for the father, Rafael Izquierdo. Perez said Davis and Izquierdo asked her to say in court that the letters were real and that she had received them while in Houston.

Magda Montiel Davis, for the uninitiated reader, is the Castro-loving arrepentida who, along with her husband Ira Kurzban, always seems to willingly take Fidel Castro’s side on legal issues in the U.S.

Now, here’s something interesting I found at the Florida Bar’s website, Rule 4-3.4(b):

(A lawyer shall not:) fabricate evidence, counsel or assist a witness to testify falsely…

Let me also add that according to the Florida Bar’s website (same page linked above), “Falsifying evidence is also generally a criminal offense.” So, this isn’t merely an issue of ethics.

Any lawyers out there? Here is a link to the Florida Bar’s Contact Page.