The Discerning Texan

This is the kind of story that makes you smile on a Sunday morning: the Communist front group Code Pink is chased out of Little Havana by people who know the difference between freedom and tyranny. The story is brought to you by the always solid Babalu Blog, the voice of the Cuban American community on the Web:

Codepink's "big" protest

A pick-up truck draped with pink chiffon and a couple of ugly broads.

Of course the Miami Herald doesn't quantify the number referring to Codepink as a "San Francisco-based group."

More like cuatro gatos.

UPDATE:

The Sun-Sentinel confirms that it was seis gatos.

The six activists, of the Codepink anti-war group, had planned to speak to reporters outside the landmark Versailles restaurant to publicize their campaign against Carriles-- a former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.

However they were met by some 200 irate Cuban-Americans who consider Carriles a champion of freedom. Some ran at the activists' truck as they arrived, tearing off its pink fringe, while others shouted sexist slurs.

"We're not in Cuba. We're supposed to have free speech," said Medea Benjamin, one of the group's founders. "This is indicative of how a small group of Cuban-Americans are holding the rest of the community hostage."

She's right. In Cuba she would have never been able to travel across the country to protest anything. And in Cuba the mob would have beaten her to pulp. And that mob would have been organized by the government. Here in the U.S. people are going to react when you slap them in the face.

If you think about it, you wonder how the Marxist fascist Medea ever dreamed that this might turn out otherwise; it is sort of analogous to SS Death's Head Veterans staging a protest in a community of holocaust survivors...

Isn't it ironic how today the very people who seem to appreciate and support the USA the most are the ones who understand what it is like to live under Socialist tyranny, i.e. the Cuban American community and Eastern Europeans? And that the people who whine and complain the loudest about how "bad" things are here have no idea how the rest of the planet has to live?