Castros Secret Agents

THERE ARE NO SKATEBOARDS IN CUBA!

by Howard E. Morseburg

Danny Glover laughs, because he knows the joke is on American Liberals, that socialism is a society of slaves, especially black slaves. Danny is Fidel's # 1 houseboy.

Cuban children are friendly and gracious, but controlled by the State. Here they're jumping an imaginary rope, just like everything else in Cuba.

THE CHILDREN OF CUBA LIVE DIFFERENT LIVES

than American children do. They are probably better disciplined and most certainly better behaved due to several factors, not least of which is the strictness of the Cuban regime in all aspects of their lives. They live simpler lives, which in some ways might be better for them as they are growing up, but in many ways the restrictive nature of the rulers in Havana will severely limit their freedoms as they grow and crush the individuals initiative, crush their spirit, or drive them away from home.

All school-children wear uniforms, and they cannot leave school and run down to the Mall, because there aren't any places like that for them (for tourists, yes, but not Cuban citizens). Their lives are controlled.

But mainly, as you read, you'll find that it is not the material goods that matter, but the lack of freedom to do things for themselves because no government can anticipate every citizen's needs or desires and take care of them. Government is not the answer; YOU are the answer.

DAIRY PRODUCTS BEFORE AND AFTER CASTRO

The children pictured above are allowed but one glass of milk a day, an insufficient amount for adequate nutrition in growing youngsters. Cuban farmers, before 1959 and Fidel Castro's communism, provided delicious milk in sufficient quantities for everyone, so much so that they even exported their surplus cheese to other countries. Today milk is severely rationed; it is the fault of communism's failures.

BEFORE CASTRO, CUBA EXPORTED CHEESE

TODAY, BECAUSE OF COMMUNIST CONTROL OF FARMING, DAIRY PRODUCTION HAS DROPPED DRAMATICALLY!

A game of Pick-up Basketball in Cuba, with no basketball. No one has the money to buy one, nor a store to go to to buy one.

When you take away my freedom. . .

you take away everything. . .

PERSONALLY, I HATE SKATEBOARDS. . .

And I don't think that they is any great need for them as part of our civilization today, either. Yet, back in 1935 we built skateboards just like those you see the kids above riding, and that was 70 years ago. Two roller skates and a 2" x 4" platform with an apple box nailed or screwed to it (bent over nails mostly) and two board handles on it to steer it. That's all we had. No one had invented skateboards yet, thank goodness.

But what you see above is all the kids in Cuba have to play with! They could have skateboards as good as those in Santa Monica, CA. or New Haven, CT, if Castro would give them the freedom to make them. But he does not; it is forbidden. Always, in all ways, people's lives are controlled.

Therefore, they don't have skateboards or surfboards, not in Cuba, simply because an old murderous dictator won't permit it..

NO NIKES IN CUBA EITHER

This is typical of how the kids have to play in Havana and Santiago and all over Cuba. No Nikes, but also, some with no shoes. Black or white, the ability to do extra work and earn extra money to buy some luxuries is there but not the Government approval. So, they play like this. They're ambitious just like American kids, but "Castro won't let them." Their fathers and mothers cannot do extra work either. Each earns $8 a month, American, that's all. Kids in the U.S. can earn that an hour. Kids in Cuba cannot; it is not possible. You cannot become rich in Cuba. You cannot walk around in a nice pair of shoes, even just $100 shoes in Cuba.

Socialism obviously places severe limitations on what you are allowed to do and how you can live. Yet, in a free society, which Cuba certainly is not, you should be able to do what you want and to buy what you can afford.

You never really appreciate freedom until

a tyrant has taken it away from you!

There is no Text-messaging in Cuba, kids don't have cell phones, nor do their parents. The Government of Cuba does not permit it.

There are no Roller-blades in Cuba, because there are no stores that sell them, nor could the kids afford them if they did.

These nicely dressed Cuban children look to be eight or nine years old, and already are being trained how to use military weapons by Army instructors.

THE SOCIALIST PLAN IS PACIFICATION OF DEMOCRACIES

While American children are kicked out of school if they even draw a picture of a gun, Cuban children in the lower grades are taught all about guns, even how to use them against American children. (personified as Uncle Sam). America's socialists preach peace, to pacify this nation and defeat us mentally, while Cuba's socialists, as in other socialist countries, are taught war, to defeat a pacifist and subdued country by force.

East-Germany was socialist, but if you study its history, they shot (executed) people trying to cross the Berlin Wall and leave the country, shot young people, without remorse. It was against the law to try to leave for a free life in a free country, as in Cuba today. It is against the law to leave Cuba; Castro owns them..

All socialist countries require military service from their young people, while using peace as a lure to the unwary.

iN SOCIALIST COUNTRIES THEY CANNOT OUTLAW THE ROTC, AS THEY DO IN SAN FRANCISCO

FIDEL CASTRO IS LOVED BY THE LIBERALS, BUT HIS GOVERNMENT DOES ALL THE THINGS THEY OBJECT TO HERE.

LIVING CONDITIONS IN CUBA

You don't see many photographs taken in Cuba, especially not in America's newspapers. If an American building owner rented out apartments to tenants in a building like this, it would be news, on the TV and radio, and he would end up in jail. It would be condemned and torn down. But in Cuba this building is owned by Fidel Castro, who is the Government. There are better apartments, surely, but also worse than this as well.

There are no computers in this building, no internet services, and no painters to paint it, carpenters to fix it, plumbers to repair the toilets, no electricians to fix the light switches. You cannot hire them, even if you had the money, because no one can have an independent business in Cuba and make extra money.

Cuba does have new homes too, built in the Soviet era, when they got $5 billion dollars a year from the Russian communists. That helped them to live a little bit better.

You might say that there is an equality in poverty and that the rationing of food is a government tool to keep the population under control. Waiting in line for food keeps people occupied and less troublesome.

Freedom to choose. . .

KIDS DON'T HAVE NINTENDOS IN CUBA

No, kids do not have Nintendos in Cuba either. At $8 per month, their Moms and Dads are paid, they just cannot afford to buy them such luxuries. Besides, if a teen-ager had a Nintendo, he would not have any friends to share it with.

There are some dollar stores in Cuba, but in order to get dollars, a relative must send them the money from another country. All the dollar stores are owned by the Government of Cuba, and by dollar stores, it is not like in the U.S. where all the things sell for a dollar. It simply means that Cubans who get money from relatives in the U.S., or Mexico, or Spain can go to that special store and buy things with U.S. dollars. So, in Cuba, the dollar stores will not accept Cuban pesos printed by the Cuban government paid to Cuban workers.

More important than a Nintendo is Freedom!

KIDS DON'T HAVE SURFBOARDS IN CUBA

It would be nice if kids could gather together, get in a car and drive to the beach with their surfboards, and spend even a single afternoon surfing and playing in the sand. But they can't. There are no surfing shops in Cuba. The young people cannot spend their days as they wish. Surfing, its not an option for them.

Why? According to the Cuban Constitution, they are owned by the Government. They may live at home, but their parents seem only to have the privilege of having them home at night.

The government presence is felt everywhere and the police, as the government, control every facet of the lives of Cubans.

Freedom is more important than a surfboard.

Yes Freedom is more important than Dirt-bikes

NOPE, THEY DON'T HAVE DIRT BIKES

Nah, they don't have dirt-bikes either in Cuba. No one has the money to afford one, except for Fidel Castro, 'cause he's worth $800 million. HE, Fidel, is close to being a BILLIONAIRE.

But no one else is. What can you buy with only $8 a month? You may get free Healthcare and college, but while you're going to school, there is no weekend fun with your Dad on a dirt-bike, a skateboard or a surfboard, nor with a motorboat, waterskis, hiking and camping out. Yes, for some things that seem free, really aren't free. You pay a price somewhere and somehow.

Dirt bikes are material possessions, but the right to buy and own them is what is denied to Cuba's citizens, to self-determine what they can have and do, for themselves. That's freedom.

WELL, WHAT ABOUT BICYCLES?

Obviously many people ride bicycles, but most are old, not new, or extra light and expensive bikes like you can buy in the U.S. or in Europe. If Cubans had the money they could buy them from Europe, but on $8 a month, what can you afford in a bike?

How much could you buy on $8 a month? First you have to feed yourself on that money, and buy your clothes and shoes. You would have to save up for a long time to think about buying a bicycle and then, it would not be an expensive one.

And no way could you afford a $700 or $900 bike, or more. It is unthinkable that a Cuban, through personal effort and hard work, make five or ten times as much as his neighbors.

Try to buy a bicycle like this in Cuba. It is not possible. All those lovely bicycles they ride in their parades in San Francisco would be confiscated, if Fidel took control of that city. He'd have his minions put the up for sale on Craig's List, and pocket the money for himself.

Cubans are smart and enterprising if given the opportunity, but under socialism they are controlled by the Government and cannot be enterprising..

WHAT ABOUT DUNE BUGGIES IN CUBA?

Well, surprising that you should ask? The answer, of course, is no. Why? Because Fidel Castro says so. It is that simple.

Cubans are ingenious and they could easily build their own Dune Buggies. But 300 Cuban pesos each month, which have absolutely no value in any other country, cannot buy you the parts and the gas for your own Dune Buggy. It is not an embargo that causes this, but government policy where they put their money instead of paying the workers better.

There are no Unions in Cuba. Going on strike? Well, that could land you in jail or even a death sentence. Things are not all right in Cuba, as the Liberals like to tell us. Things are terrible there. Food is not plentiful, although it could be if Cuban farmers were left to their own initiative.

Castro is like an overly strict, disciplinary, rigid father, but an evil one who beats, tortures and imprisons his children.

They don't have Personal Computers in Cuba. With the Internet, Cuban children could reach out to the world and find out the truth about what is going on in other countries. Fidel Castro controls all the news that is disseminated in Cuba, the press, the radio and the TV, so he also controls access to Personal Computers.

Children don't have computers in their bedrooms, nor do the families have computers in their homes.

In Cuba there is no freedom of the press:

the government owns the newspapers too.

MOST PICTURES OF CUBA COURTESY OF: WWW.THEREALCUBA.COM

SPIES, SPIES, SPIES The Cuban government maintains a very large compliment of spies and secret agents in comparison to other nations of a similar size about the world. Also, it has deteriorated to a Third World Nation in many ways compared to what it was prior to 1958, when Fidel Castro took over. The question is: Why does Cuba need or even want such a large organization of these agents on an International basis and what is their true purpose? Who are they. What do they do? Certainly we should have an interest in the answers, since Cuba is just 90 miles off our shores and we currently have about two million former residents of Cuba living in this country. While the highly touted education system may have improved and there may be many more college graduates and young people with degrees, opportunities for them have diminished dramatically. There is only government to employ them, there is only government to direct them, there is only government to either open the gates of advancement or deny it to then, there is only government to turn to for everything in life! There is government, government, government in every phase of their lives and if they do not agree, in other words, dissent, once again there is government in the form of numerous prisons that have been built over the fifty years since Fidel took over Cuba. And with the totality of government come the government spies and the government enforcers. Every new birth means another slave to government, a possession, not a free person with a free-will who is allowed to plan their own future and live as they desire. There is someone in government to direct every movement and to censor any independent thought and action..	HARRY BELAFONTE'S vision of the future for Venezuela, The Time Machine--in Reverse. As you can see in the picture above, the Cuban transportation system has improved dramatically since the great Fidel and his personalized government in Havana have ktaken over. Since 1959 the horsepower of Cuban vehicles has advanced well beyond that of neighboring countries, including Mexico and the United States. Hollywood's two leading propagandists for the befuddled Dictator must be clearly aware of the deterioration of the infrastructure in Cuba, but continue to spread lies throughout South America about the advantages of Socialism. The Harry & Danny Comedy Team will continue their Cuban Road Show throughout Venezuela in these coming months.
That's because International Communism has sleeper cells in every country, followers of Karl Marx, and they will do everything possible to defeat democracy or any other form of government and install a communist dictatorship. To the Right: Another example of the deterioration of the old colonial-style buildings in Cuba. It's a time warp that is due solely to the warped mind and infantile thinking of Fidel Castro. There are no signs of success, of modernization, of development, of progress in Cuba. All that is attributable to socialism is in a time warp that began with the ascension of Fidel to power, a 1959 time warp. All progress as shown in the Tourist Zone is attributable to those capitalist countries with whom Castro made deals for development of hotels and shopping areas. Capitalism and capitalism alone has built Cuba's tourist industry, and it is capitalism that continues to sell tourism for the benefit of Fidel and his cronies Without the B.S., socialism in Cuba is a perfect example of the failures of the system, as demonstrated by nearly 100 years of it in Russia, and close to sixty years of it in Cuba. Government stifles progress. For those who question these statements, look up Cuba's international debt. It continues to grow, but the largess of Chavez and the Venezuelan government has simply put off the final day of reckoning for the hapless citizens of Cuba, a day delayed as the octogenarian continues to cling to life and keep up the daily torture of his people.	CASTRO'S SEE-THROUGH BUILDINGS Fidel, ever the true visionary, thoughtfully designed these see-through buildings so that visitors could understand the Cuban architecture better, as well as the engineering and interior structure. Fidel says, "In Cuba, everything is transparent, the government, our finances, and even our buildings. We have nothing to hide. We are proud of what we are, as you will see when you visit Cuba.": It has become a mainstay of guided tours for vacationers today to tour these architectural wonders of colonial Cuba.. More and more buildings are being added to this tour annually. Free booklets are available listing these buildings, with comments by world-renowned architects. No one, they concede, but Fidel, could have accomplished such a miracle. Hollywood continues to worship him and to bathe his feet for such feats..
More of Castro's SEE-THROUGH architecture right in front of. . .of no, not a public building in Havana? When Castro stole all the property from Cubans, he forgot that you also needed to maintain them. When you chase away the store owners, and the building stays empty, what happens to it? It deteriorates, falls apart, and thus you see the results.	Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover are both obvious supporters of communist regimes, and are acting as agents of the Cuban government. They have traveled to and from Cuba, visited numerous times with Fidel Castro, acted in concert with the Cuban dictator in working towards the establishment of International Communism in South and Central America. They are Hollywood's glamour boys of communism. They are Hollywood's ambassadors of good-will for the communist movement. This has been so obvious for years, yet not one of the U.S. news magazines, papers or TV investigative journalists seems to have paid attention to what they're doing. They ignore their activities, they ignore how they undermine U.S. policies in South and Central America, they ignore the damage they've inflicted upon the U.S. In fact, Hollywood enjoys a complete pass when it comes to the steady march of communist boots.
DANNY RECOMMENDS SELF-IMPOSED POVERTY FOR ALL VENEZUELANS. DANNY GOT $18 MILLION OUT OF IT. WAS THAT PAYMENT FOR HIS CONNIVING WORK THERE?	HARRY RECOMMENDS EQUAL-POVERTY-FOR-VENEZUELANS TOO. DID HE GET OIL MONEY OUT OF CHAVEZ, OR WAS JUST DANNY PAID?
	(L) Danny Glover & Hugo Chavez (R) Hugo Chavez & Harry Belafonte Friends of Leftist Dictators and Tyrants
Jesse Jackson, another friend of the Murderous Tyrant and Dictator. He walks along with a man who has executed thousands of black people, many for simply disagreeing with the communist government. Yet, have you ever read about Jesse Jackson criticizing Fidel Castro?	MURDER! Why is it that Harry, Danny and Jesse can so unabashedly lend their names and reputations to the advancement of regimes that are led by Dictators? Every dictatorship enslaves the citizens of that state just as surely as shackles and leg chains. Jesse walks casually alongside a man who murdered more black people than any slave owner of the past, signed thousands of death warrants and approved of executions with little or no trials, and today who holds more than 11 million Cuban citizens in slavery. Think how many of those executed in Cuba since 1959 were black men, and think too, that their crime was often no more than to disagree with Castro's experimental form of government. It is a White Power structure that controls Cuba, yet Harry and Danny are chummy and approving of this Aparthied-type situation. Would they be there if they weren't? These men would take our freedom away just as they are trying to take it away from the Venezuelan people. They are very rich, but they hate rich people. They like to be rich, but still hate the rich.
GIVE THE CUBAN PEOPLE A BREAK! You cannot shackle a man's mind! You can fill him full of lies, distortions of the truth, an endless barrage of propaganda for years, but in the end, you still cannot shackle his mind. Eventually some recognition of what is the truth and what is a lie comes through. Logic and reason begin to emerge and he realizes that he has been deceived. These ruins, these falling-apart structures, are but small problems to be solved, and men and women, given the freedom to apply themselves, could rebuild Cuba on their own, but that freedom is denied to them. The Harry & Danny Road Show does not advocate giving Cubans a break. Let my people go, let my people go. The shackles in Cuba are the laws, the shackles that bind them to a system that will not allow them to use their own ingenuity, their own strengths and abilities to take them out of this government imposed poverty and change their lives and the lives of those about them, to make a future for their children..They cannot open a business, buy and sell used goods, open a garage and repair cars, fix computers, sell for Avon or work for McDonalds. You may have a free education, but the only one who can hire you is the government in Havana, no one else, no private employer.	Well, at least they have Free Health Care in Cuba, don't they? Live healthy, yes, but always a lifetime in poverty. Any job they get will pay them $8.00 a month, no more and no less. Baker, teacher, street cleaner, musician--a $8 a month. You cannot work at a side job and earn more money, just $8.00 a month, a check from the Government.
NEXT: THERE ARE NO SKATEBOARDS IN CUBA!	A story about how the kids live in Cuba, what they do, how they play, what they can buy and cannot buy.

STORIES IN ART by Howard E. Morseburg
To the right you are looking at the reverse side of a painting that sold at acution for $16.3 million dollars. The strangest thing about it, to me, is the flimsy wire that it hung by for many years, perhaps just a few years after it was painted by Claude Monet. It seems inconceivable that such a valuable work of art would not have been rewired before it was hung. Had the wire broken, it would have crashed to the floor and perhaps suffered great damage. But that's the way we found it when we took it down and removed the painting from its' frame. Some things are inexplicable and the carelessness of both the framer and the Wallis's is a question that shall remain forever in my mind. The painting is titled The Houses of Parliament, and at the time I put my initials on it, it belonged to the noted Hollywood producer, Hal Wallis, who was married at the time to a beautiful movie actress, Martha Heyer. It was in a heavy gilt frame and my initials are inscribed on the white canvas with a red crayon in the upper right corner of the upper right quarter. If anyone doubts the story I am about to tell, they only have to consult the Museum records, for they are certain to have photographed it extensively upon acquisition of the work, and perhaps, wondered, just wondered a bit why those three initials, HEM, are there and who put them there. Above these three is another set, FTB. Who put the HEM there? I did.
There are true adventures in life, and this was one in my life. At the time that I had my trusted employee, Alvaro, remove the Houses of Parliament from its' frame, we followed that by removed this beautiful floral from its' frame as well. To some it was known by the title Asters, and to others it was Chrysanthemums. It was listed on our paper-work as the latter, and on the documents from the Armored car firm the same.	A glorious work of art, by Monet.
	There was a living breathing presence in each of these paintings, as if you could feel that they were members of the Royal Family of Art, true masterpieces by one of the World's great painters, a true Master.
	Frank T. Buck, an attorney who was involved in this story, holds the painting after it was removed from the frame in the Wallis living room. He represented the opposing party to the Wallis's, who had loaned a significant amount of money with the paintings as security. In the background the walls are papered with a gorgeous antique Chinese wallpapers, stripped, we were told, from an ancient temple in China. All I can say is that it was exquisite and obviously very very expensive.
Alvaro Perez, head of the Shipping Department for the Howard E. Morseburg Galleries, sits calmly reading a magazine while the drama unfolds about him. The Lt. from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department is speaking on the telephone to Martha Heyer, Frank Buck, an attorney, stands in the foreground, and the Houseboy or whatever title they used for him, to the right, waiting for orders from his employer whom he called on the telephone. Miss Heyer was atone of their homes in Palm Springs at the time all this was going on. A beautiful antique birdcage sits on the table.
	To the left you can see my initials (HEM) in red, just below those of Frank T. Buck, the Attorney. The printing is not on the canvas; it is just put there to describe what's going on for this story.
	Part of the history of the paintning is told by these labels glued to the stretcher bars, as well as the origin of the work, through the Dazell Hatfield Gallery in Los Angeles.
At this point we had not removed the backing from the Monet painting of the Asters, which was only attached to the stretcher bars and not to the frame too. We removed it from the frame as well.

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