Raul Castro Says Cubans May Have Cell Phones

The Fidel and Raul Castro regime, in their infinite munificence have deigned to allow their Cuban slaves to own cell phones. However, it has not yet been decided if they many make calls on them, or what, if anything, they will be allowed to say during a call.

I'm sure that the left here in the USA, and their allies in the media, are going to wag their tails and praise Raul as a 'reformer', who is 'bringing democracy' to Cuba. They have been fawning over Fidel and Raul ever since 1959.

For those of us who don't know what it is like to live in a communist regime
(most Americans), read the testimony of someone who has. Ayn Rand when she testified before the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1947:

Rep. John R. McDowell: You paint a very dismal picture of Russia. You made a great point about the number of children who were unhappy. Doesn't anybody smile in Russia any more?

Rand: Well, if you ask me literally, pretty much no.

McDowell: They don't smile?

Rand: Not quite that way; no. If they do, it is privately and accidentally. Certainly, it is not social. They don't smile in approval of their system.

McDowell: Well, all they do is talk about food.

Rand: That is right.

McDowell: That is a great change from the Russians I have always known, and I have known a lot of them. Don't they do things at all like Americans? Don't they walk across town to visit their mother-in-law or somebody?

Rand: Look, it is very hard to explain. It is almost impossible to convey to a free people what it is like to live in a totalitarian dictatorship. I can tell you a lot of details. I can never completely convince you, because you are free. It is in a way good that you can't even conceive of what it is like. Certainly they have friends and mothers-in-law. They try to live a human life, but you understand it is totally inhuman. Try to imagine what it is like if you are in constant terror from morning till night and at night you are waiting for the doorbell to ring, where you are afraid of anything and everybody, living in a country where human life is nothing, less than nothing, and you know it. You don't know who or when is going to do what to you because you may have friends who spy on you, where there is no law and any rights of any kind.