Sicko used to promote Havana Hospital, but banned for Cubans
What a surprise. Castro’s government is using Sicko to market the services of Havana Hospital to foreigners (how very capitalist of the revolution!), but they’ve also banned Sicko in Cuba. Here’s a Babelfish translation of a Cuban story, and here is a post from Josue that translates properly for us non-Spanish-speakers.
What this boils down to is the fact that Castro’s regime won’t allow Sicko to rile up the Cuban people. Why would it rile them up, considering how much the film glorifies Cuban healthcare? Well, the answer to that is twofold.
First of all, it would be obvious to every Cuban in one instant that Michael Moore collaborated with Castro’s thugs in order to shoot the footage he shot and go the places he went. You simply can’t walk around Guantanamo or Havana with a film crew and a group of white tourists unless the government is involved. You don’t get to go to the fire station and have the ALL the firemen on parade unless they were ordered in advance to be there to greet you. And you don’t get to bring a film crew into the big shiny hospital either, which brings me to the second reason why the average Cuban would be angry watching Sicko:
They simply are not allowed that kind of care. It’s a lie.
We have shown you again and again what the average Cuban gets from the government, and it’s not Havana Hospital. Show the people a film that purports to the world that the common people, the ones without government connections or a foreign patron, the average Cuban, gets to go to the big shiny hospital? Never. Show a film that purports that one can walk into any corner pharmacy and get your prescription filled? Never. The pharmacies are empty. To show Sicko to the Cuban people puts the lie to the revolution. It proves Castro is a thieving dictator who forces his people to suffer so that a few may benefit. It shows socialism for the lie that it is. Banning the film keeps the average Cuban from seeing the lie, but Sicko spreads the lie around the world, painting Castro’s brutal regime in the light of grandfatherly caregiver.
And Moore helped him accomplish that lie.
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You know, when Moore thought that the United States government was going to prevent people from seeing his movie, he hid his movie in a secret vault so that no one could find it. Of course, he told everyone that he hid it in a secret vault because it might pique interest.
Apparently the people of Cuba aren’t worth the same regard. There is no mention of Cuba’s Sicko ban on his website. I find it odd that such a glaring example of censorship would go unreported. I also find it interesting that he uses the word “revolution” in an article on the front page.
He goes after Guiliani for something he said and didn’t apologize for (I don’t know what that is), and he goes after Bush for going on vacation, even though he goes after Bush for stuff he does when he isn’t on vacation, but there’s nary a peep about actual, real, true oppression, which seems to be a daily part of life in Cuba.
Shame on you, Mr. Moore, Shame on you! (sound familiar?)
I like moore listing Bush as being on vacation. Especially after reading this:
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - President George W. Bush, using all the trappings of his family’s oceanfront estate, worked on a cozier relationship with France and its new president.
Bush welcomed Nicolas Sarkozy, the French leader known for his fast-paced style who may also be this White House’s last true chance for better relations between the two nations.
“He’s bringing a good brain, good vision and goodwill,” Bush said Saturday from his parents’ compound in the northeastern region of the U.S. known as New England.
Sounds like the typical, normal American vacatin to me…
Bush On Yet Another Vacation
It’s nice to see moore allowing hisseff to be totally used as a tool of castro. Ass…
IF the time Bush “works from home” counts as vacation, I’d like to see how many other top CEO’s take “vacation” while running multi-billion dollar companies.
I’m sorry, anyone who thinks that Bush is taking all this vacation instead of working is seriously mistaken.
Like crichton said...yup just another typical normal American vacation ;-)
Posted by Janna on 08/12/2007 at 12:56 PM (Link to this comment | )
IF the time Bush “works from home” counts as vacation, I’d like to see how many other top CEO’s take “vacation” while running multi-billion dollar companies.
Yeah, they’re are pleanty of abuses by CEOs but even they sometimes have good come backs as to why billed their ‘vacation’ or ‘personal party’ to the company… like, I met so and so and sold that division we wanted to unload for X million… on that vaction / at that party…
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Anyway, with crap like this… Moore’s own movie being banned in Cuba for these reasons… how can anyone stay a Moore fan? How???
Think for a second… all this Bush-bot Rove brainwash stuff… sure your not projecting? Bush may be an idiot and Rove a bastard… but that doesn’t excuse you sucking up to Moore (who is a jackass for getting into bed with Castro).