Cuba Has Good People but also Shitheads

[El Presidente]

Love a good headline 

https://havanatimes.org/diaries/pedro-pablo-morejon/cuba-has-good-people-but-also-shitheads/

Cuba Has Good People but also Shitheads

 April 1, 2021

By Pedro Pablo Morejon

HAVANA TIMES – I’ve known him for years. He’s from my town and it still feels like I see him there, playing soccer with other kids in the neighborhood, in an improvised field on a bit of land next to the polytechnic university. That’s where he graduated as a medium-level technician without a future. 

To tell you the truth, there’s no future for almost any graduate in Cuba, whether they’ve studied a medium-level course or further education, they’re still limited.

He was a slim young man back then, almost scrawny, and very tall.

He used to be pretty blank in his expressions. He liked to talk about what is called the most universal of sports: soccer. About Messi, Cristiano, Barca, the Champions League, as if he spent his whole life in it.

He was the typical millennial who only knows how to talk about soccer, reggaeton or videogames. 

Well, he joined the Ministry of Interior a while back. He passed some courses, it seems he did some weightlifting by his new athletic build. Over time he became a lieutenant, head of a Unit in a nearby town.

I’ve seen him now and again and we always greet each other politely. Now, he has a more arrogant air to him, as if his new position has turned him into a man of status.

I ran into him one of these days. We were traveling in a car with other people, all from the same town. There, he boasted about the respect he got with his new job. Especially the vast number of fines he has imposed now during lockdown.

“When I’m bored, I get on my motorbike and go to X place and give 6 or 7 fines,” he says while smiling, as if he had done something heroic.

I was surprised by his nerve when he admitted that he had fined an old woman 2000 pesos. According to his account, it was noon. The old lady had explained that she had lowered her mask to drink a soft drink, because she is diabetic, was hungry and had been standing in line at the pharmacy.

I pretended like I wasn’t listening, but at that point I had bite my tongue so as not to spurt something out like, “Why are you such a shithead?” In the end, it seemed that his listeners laughed along.

We are being attacked by a highly infectious disease, which has caused the loss of human lives, as well as consequences for the rest of the infected. So governments have had to take measures in order to control the scourge, some of which tough and restrictive, but necessary.

However, extremism and relishing in other people’s pain isn’t fair. Unfortunately, I’ve seen a lot of this recently.

This young man is just one of many who are fulfilling their role of executioner down to the T, a role they’ve been given. It seems they have no way of thinking for themselves. They are the hounds described by George Orwell in his 1945 book “Animal Farm”. They are the ones who won’t hesitate and massacre their own when the time comes.

It’s also worth adding that Cuban police courses involve brainwashing and indoctrination, which are key to their training.

I wrote about good people in Cuba a few months back… well, let’s be clear, there’s also a lot of shitheads out there.

[Mrcpt]

I know a few folks like that who became police after graduation. Glad I moved away.  

[Jimmy_jack]

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[Fosgate]

Reminds me of a great joke. 

A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas , and talked with an old rancher.
He told the rancher, "I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs."
The rancher said, "Okay , but don't go in that field over there.", as he pointed out the location.
The DEA officer verbally exploded saying, " Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me !" Reaching into his rear pants pocket, he removed his badge and proudly displayed it to the rancher. "See this badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish.... On any land! No questions asked! Do you understand ?!!" The rancher nodded politely, apologized, and went about his chores. A short time later, the old rancher heard loud screams, looked up, and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by the rancher's big Santa Gertrudis bull...... With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that he'd sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified. The rancher threw down his tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of his lungs..... "Your badge, show him your BADGE!!"

 

[La_Tigre]

3 hours ago, Mrcpt said:

I know a few folks like that who became police after graduation. Glad I moved away.  

Gives the rest of the bunch a bad name as always. Always entertaining to hear leftist cries of fascism and then think of these socialist societies. 

[Nino]

Yep, lots of shitheads in that particular Ministry - must be the same Mofo SOB that fined a 25 year old street vendor selling bananas in Holguin for not having a licence 5000 Pesos ( 200 US$ ) and seized his bananas.

The 25 year old guy went home and commited suicide.

That is how revolutions are started ... in other countries....

https://www.14ymedio.com/cuba/suicida-Holguin-multado-vender-platanos-Cuba_0_3067493232.html

"Just over 10 years ago, exactly on December 17, 2010, in a town in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor, blew himself up after the police confiscated his fruit stand;
Two days ago, on March 29, in the town of Guaro, in the Holguin municipality of Mayarí, another cart driver, Jorge Cachón Martínez, hanged himself after the authorities fined him 5,000 pesos and seized the bananas he sold in the city.
The activist Teresa Miranda denounced on her social networks the suicide of Cachón Martínez, only 25 years old. The publication was shared by several Internet users who criticized the way in which the Government attacks carters and street vendors.
According to the testimony published by Miranda, the young man, who was "an orphan of mother and father," was fined for selling food on the street.
Cachón Martínez did not have a license to market agricultural products on an itinerant basis, and in addition to the fine, some bananas were seized from him."

[helix]

A career path taken by many a short peckered dufus needing to make up for it.   

[Nino]

Another fine example of a Cuban shithead - policeman fines an old man 2000 Pesos for saying in public that he is hungry ...

https://cubanosporelmundo.com/2021/03/29/policia-castrista-anciano-tengo-hambre/?fbclid=IwAR1FPMrKrpZnm6XXnJNBRpDXFRVrKa390RFN6pyjeUObljWQboS8cIcdRcY

 

"Being hungry in Cuba is also a crime. An elderly Cuban identified as Ángel Granado Santiesteban, a native of Mayabeque, was fined by the Castro police after shouting “I'm hungry” in the middle of the street.

The complaint comes through social networks by user Kelvis Labañino, detailing that the old man simply exposed his situation.

But the Castro policemen did not like that this Cuban was revealing the misery that the majority of the Cuban people live, so they decided to fine him two thousand pesos, despite not having the means to pay said fine."

 

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[LLC]

Every country, city,town, etc has good people and shitheads. Too many of the later in most places.


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[Squarehead]

Sad but true

[Nevrknow]

4 hours ago, LLC said:

Every country, city,town, etc has good people and shitheads. Too many of the later in most places.


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Son in law= officer in downtown Nashville. Tons of friends in other towns, same thing. They will tell you lots of their peers should not be officers. Same with any job I guess. 
 

Except pilots. Yes I know you’re here lol. You never hear we have mostly good pilots. They only hit mountains every now and then. 😂

 

Old joke.