Castro's Last Ride

Castro's Last Ride by Bill Wilson

So here we go-the stage is set. There are thousands of people lining the streets, likely forced to be there, even to chant "Long Live Fidel"-and "The Caravan of Liberty," the same name Castro's rebels called their bloody march from Santiago to Havana during the "La Revolution" was rolling along with carrying Castro's ashes in a glass encased box in the back of an olive green Soviet-made run-off of an American Jeep.

When just at the crescendo of the funeral dirge, the vehicle broke down and the soldiers of the revolution, the comrades of a day past, were reminded of exactly what communism is all about--the "have-nots" pushing the "haves" to their destination.

Power to the working class, right?

So fitting.

Fidel Castro is getting a lot of press in his death. Most of these leftists are portraying him as some kind of hero, a defiant revolutionary who stood up to the big bad Americans. That he did. But he destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives, perhaps millions, while doing it.

All the while he painted an image of himself as the olive uniformed man of the people when he really was using his position to accumulate wealth and live in luxury.

Worse than the pandering of the leftist news media to the Castro regime was that of the US president who broke protocol and took his family to Cuba to pay homage to this ruthless Communist dictator nine months before his death. The US president gushed that his daughters wanted to go to Cuba "because they understood."

Whatever that was supposed to mean.

The US president issued this statement upon Castro's death: "History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him."

Enormous impact? Really?

The Miami Herald reported on April 23, 2006 that Fidel Castro was responsible for 31,173 executions and prison deaths since he took power in1959. Some 5,728 were killed by firing squads. He refused medical attention to those trying to escape the island by boat, resulting in another estimated 77,000 deaths.

Nearly all the sources indicate an exact number of deaths by Castro's regime is unattainable, with estimates of over 1.5 million.

Why couldn't the US president call Castro what he was-a murderous dictator?

The Communist Manifesto states: "...Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis."

This is the basis of deception for all socialism and progressivism. It is godless and evil.

The Bible tells us in Galatians 5:!, "Stand fast therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage."

Communists ply human nature with powerful words of freedom like "rights" when, in reality, they wish to kill, steal and destroy.

Castro was among the worst of our lifetime. He is an example of how an antichrist figure can deceive people to destruction with vain words.

Castro's green Soviet funeral car breaking down is a fitting last ride and should stand as a subtle prophetic warning to all who entertain his ways.