Fidel Castro is and will always be Cuba's national hero because he's got balls.

" This is where you are wrong. You were fooled by the American propaganda as were many" An assumption people often make about those who disagree with them. "Fidel Castro suffered and nearly died liberating Cuba from Batista" this is your evidence I was "fooled?" Hitler suffered and in fact died as a result of the holocaust. That doesn't make the holocaust a form of liberation. " I call it liberating because I have people in my family that have been taken away from their home into jail or to death. " Ignoratio elenchi, and anecdotal evidence. This does not make it "liberating" because many other people have people in their families who were taken away into jail or death BY CASTRO. "Batista was a butcher, and no one cared in America because his evilness wasn't as publicized as much as the supposed evilness of Fidel Castro." What's your point? I am not arguing batista was good. Batista was a butcher, so was castro, castro simply had a plan that would allow his rule to last longer (e.g. only slaughter those you consider "bourgeoise" or "traitors" and whatnot. "Fidel Castro took everyone out of jail when he came to power" http://query.nytimes.com... He jails many dissidents, the above is merely one example. For one who claims to have done research your claim is inexcusable. ", gave them homes, food, health care " After stealing from their owners and thus reducing the production of the above products. Providing your slaves room and board is not a "gift." "(which is more than I can say for this country)" In this country, you have to earn them (most of the time, although there are a number of people who get away with not doing so, mostly due to voters like you :D) "and nobody is homeless in Cuba" http://www.cubanet.org... How exactly do homeless men die in cuba if there are no homeless in cuba? Are you just swallowing castro's propaganda whole? "This is what they don't tell you on T.V." Because, as shown above, it's not precisely true... although in fact they do tell me it on tv, I simply don't listen :D. "hat is why you'll find Fidel Castro supporters even in Miami" Not castro supporters from cuba. Maybe castro supporters who resent cuban immigrants, but a desire to have a dictator keep people stuck in a country because you resent them is hardly a recommendation. "Only because Cuba never had chance to be as great as America" Every country has a chance to be not "as great," but even better, than america. The trouble is, they don't take that chance, because it involves getting the government out of the way, and therefore is not good for bureaucrats. "and only because Fidel Castro doesn't allow criticism of his administration doesn't mean he was a bad leader. " Yes it does. Imprisoning and brainwashing an entire population, which is the essence of castro's policy, is bad leadership. It's also the essence of the policies of many american politicians, but fortunately occasional filibusters pop up :D. "Cuba was never better since before Columbus." Cuba was a good place to be. That's not a recommendation for Castro. "You say that the wise in Cuba wouldn't call him a hero? You are as ignorant as they come, in Cuba they all support Castro" No, not all. Otherwise he'd have no one to imprison and kill and such. Most do, but I never said there were very many wise in cuba. And so far you've done a poor job of demonstrating my "ignorance," and a fantastic job of demonstrating your own. "Politicians, Doctors, Teachers, they all are smart enough to admit that if it wasn't for Castro, everything would've been worse." Ad populum. The existence of many holding a position does not make it "smart" to espouse it. "Continued their enslavement you say? Do you know the racism and torture that went on under Batista's administration? Of course not," False, I do in fact know that batista was guilty of that. Otherwise I wouldn't have said "continued." As you could have figured out yourself, had you been thinking. Again, the existence of a previous dictator is not a recommendation for the new one. " Blacks were treated like dirt, and Batista's KGB would harass everyone they could. " True. But what your missing is he wasn't as good at it as Castro. When two monsters fight, the one who wins is better at being a monster than the one who loses. The length of Castro's regime corroborates this. When you don't favor either side in a dispute as such but cannot escape, the proper course is to support the weaker so that the fight continues long enough that a third party, one that won't oppress you,has a chance to organize. Not to cheer on the strongest so that he can win and solidify his oppression sooner. "idel, who is 100% white, ended the racism, dismissed Batista's police and army, and started treating everybody equally. " Everybody equally? No, treating everybody based on how ardently they obeyed him. You cannot tell me the top bureaucrats did not have a higher standard of living than the peasants in Cuba. Besides which, equally is a false standard. People are not equal. Stealing from those who produce in the name of equality discourages production, and thereby encourages death. And of course he dismissed BATISTA'S police and army, they were the COMPETITION. Gangsters do not tolerate competition, especially the kind that rule countries. I don't see him dismissing his own police and army. "Fidel came from a rich family, and still he wanted to make a difference in Cuba's discriminatory society. " Most socialist leaders come from "rich" or upper middle class families. The lower classes usually learn the value of a dollar too well to throw it out of their mind easily enough to lead the forces trying to destroy value. "He might not be the best leader in the world, but he was certainly the best in Cuba. Now you give me a reason as to why I should think these murderous Cuban leaders are better than Fidel." I don't regard them as better in the moral sense. Morally they are all equally despicable, as they all sought to initiate force and fraud, they all acted in a manner consistent with a population not of humans but of cattle. The reason the former were preferable in a practical sense is that they were less skilled. They showed it was possible to overthrow them. Castro, it appears, had no such weakness. He was thus a far more dangerous oppressor. The oppressed should not regard their oppressor as a hero.