There use to be a joke going around.  I think it may have been Yakov Smirnov who started it.  Basically it went that an American and Russian were bragging about their countries.  The American told the Russian "We can even criticize our president!", and the Russian responded that "We can criticize your president too!".

It seems that old jokes dont go away, they just get recycled.  And in the latest iteration, it is back, but instead of Russia, it is now Cuba.  That worker's paradise that Jimmah Cawtaw holds up as an example for America.

It seems that a former Cuban, by only the name of Enrique, held up a sign at the World Baseball Championship that translates into "Down with Fidel".  The game was being held in Puerto Rico.  Now for the geographically challenged (such as Jay Bennish's students), Puerto Rico is American Territory, so the right of Free Speech is very much alive and inviolate.  But the ranking member of the Cuban government watching the game apparently does not understand that, and so raced over to 'force' the demonstrator to remove the sign.  The Police had to step in and explain first amendment rights to this toadie from the island.

What is so funny is that had no stink been made of it, no one outside of the spectators of the game, would have heard about it!  Or if it had been a "down with Bush" sign, we might have heard about it, but probably not (what is one more sign among thousands?).  But fearing for his very life, I suppose, this clown decided to educate a former citizen, and almost got himself busted for assault!

The tip pot dictators of the world try to stifle the truth and free speech, but in so doing, only draw attention to themselves.  For the petty little tyrants they truly are.

Abajo Fidel!