The Liberals Did It Again On NPR

I was listening to NPR this morning. I often listen to it when the news talk gets a little repetitive. I also hate commercials. Anyway, there was this news story that essentially glorified Cuba's communist party. Apparently, no one died in Cuba when Huricane Ivan hit the country and the reason was because the communist party rules with such an iron fist that it makes sure everyone evacuates when they are supposed to and even makes sure that everyone participates in storm drills when the weather is nice, so that everyone knows what to do when the weather isn't nice. As the story said, Authoritarian regimes have an advantage in situations like massive evacuations, because they can order people to do whatever they want.

The story seemed to put a really possitive spin on Cuba's authoritarian govt. Of course, NPR failed to mention that when there is no storm, the people aren't free and that is a bad thing. Maybe a few people die in the US every time there is a strom, because people are free to be stupid, too, but NPR should remember that freedom isn't free and that there is no way to put a positive spin on anything the comunist dictator does. You can't see the benefits of freedom in the short term. But as the US has shown the world, over a period of 200 years, freedom has given us huge benefits. When the Cuban go back to their hovels with no hope of a better life until after Castro dies, they may not know what they are missing (and that is probably a good thing for them personally), but they are missing a lot. NPR should report that. Instead, they glorify communism. Didn't we figure out that communism doesn't work back in the early 1990s? Maybe we have been too complacent.