Fidel Castro celebrates 90th birthday, criticises Obama in public letter

[Judi Lynn]

32. I sucked up all the propaganda, too, on Cuba, dumb as mud, never questioning.

I never questioned any of it, assuming everything I "knew" was the truth, since I'd heard it all my life.

Did this until Elian Gonzalez was held prisoner, away from his surviving parent, in Miami. Followed the news with growing curiosity until I learned the man, his drunken great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who was his "host," had made previous vacations trips to Cuba and stayed at the little boy's house with Juan Miguel Gonzalez, his father, nephew of the older man.

I heard this repeatedly. It's also mentioned in a book written later, by former NY Times reporter, Ann Louise Bardach. It threw up a flag which didn't fit in with everything else I had heard: why on earth would one of these poor, bedraggled "refugees" ever dream of going back to Cuba, staying for days on end, go fishing, and hang out in bars at night?

He also gave the family a goat, at one point, for the privilege of having taken Juan Miguel Gonzalez' bedroom, as it was offered to him, while the father slept out in his own car, in order to be gracious.

How can this happen?

Once you reach the critical turning point, and admitting to yourself you've met information which doesn't fit into the pattern, and start doing your own homework, researching actual history between the countries, and start trying to arrive at the truth, you will eventually learn you've been had, not just a little, but profoundly.

From that point the door opens upon a whole new world of real information, but you have to do the work, yourself. It will not be given to you. What HAS been given is the opposite of the truth, the entire opposite. Only the most ignorant, and presumptuous people continue to try to perpetrate these whoppers, and you will see you've reached a point in your mental, spiritual, psychological life which is the point of no return, you can't ever go back to the idiotic, embarrassing ignorance they wallow in now. You can't go back once you have dug your way out of ignorance.

Your suspicion you DON'T know everything you thought you did will be your ticket out of stupidity. It's so within your reach. Best wishes.