Freedom of Expression in Cuba

Freedom of Expression in Cuba / Somos+, Eliecer Avila
Posted on July 9, 2015

Eliécer Ávila, 6 July 2015 — With horror and profound indignation I
learned what they did to Antonio Rodiles yesterday.

The bloodlust of these characters is no different than what motivated
the torturers of the 1950s, those who do not defend the freedom of their
people, but brag about ganging up to beat down a citizen whose only
weapon is his mind.

Is that being Revolutionaries? Is that being the New Man? God deliver
our children from lowering themselves to such extremes. . .

What will they do when the people rise up en masse in the streets? Will
they be capable of striking women, children, and the elderly? Yet they
are already committing these atrocities on an individual, but recurring,
basis.

The cowardice of the thugs who attacked him is noteworthy, but even more
noteworthy is the passivity of those who observe without reacting to the
abuse and the pain suffered by others.

I don't agree with Antonio Rodiles on various topics, which we have both
made clear, but that doesn't keep me from feeling the same disgust
toward his batterers, and suffering that same disgrace to dignity and to
life, as if it they had done it to me.

Stay strong Antonio!

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